Another Day

Today started with some more scrubbing on glue that was stuck to the walls of the inside hull. Then, I bleached all the drawers and closets in the v birth and the head area. After running around town for a bit, I went back to the boat and put on my wetsuit and proceeded to give La Leyenda a bottom scrub. All the marine growth was knocked loose and the slime cleaned off with relative ease, she looks great below water line. Tomorrow Troy will be here so we will jump back in the water and make sure all through holes are clear and the transducers are clean...

The Boat- Day 2

This is a quickie video showing some of the work that was done today. Overall, another productive day for La Leyenda. The v-birth is actually starting to show potential.

The Boat- Day 1

Our first day on the boat 

 clutter to sort through...

Fritz wants in on the action

Music time!

We pulled everything apart to dry 

Progress...

    

She is sitting about three inches higher in the water!

It was a great day to be on the boat. I am really excited to make more progress on La Leyenda. We have some cool ideas in the works and we will keep everybody in the loop. Thanks for your interest, Cheers!

The Boat

I closed on the loan today, La Leyenda is official! A 35 foot Alberg that is going to sail around the world!

NAME: La Leyenda

TYPE: Auxiliary sail, Uninspected vessel per 46 CFR Subchapter C.

BUILT: Of fiber reinforced plastic, 1967, by Pearson Yacht Corp. at Bristol, RI.

              Model 1967 Alberg 35, builder's hull# 254.

DOCUMENTED SERVICE: Recreation only; no other document restrictions or

INTENDED SERVICE: Recreation

WATERS NAVIGATED: South Coastal Alaska (for now)


HULL

LENGTHS: Overall, 34’9”   Register, 34.7’   Waterline, 24’                  BREADTH: 9’8"

DEPTH: 5.5’       DRAFT: 5’2”        DISPLACEMENT: 12,600#        BALLAST: 5,300#              

SAIL AREA: 545 sq. ft. @ 100% foretriangle                          DESIGNER: Carl Alberg

Weather

Troy and I have been trying to get out to his uncle's cabin to cut fire wood and fish. Uncle Ken's cabin is fly in only so the weather is an obvious factor for our fly in success. The weather in and around Anchorage, although amazing for a majority of the summer, has recently turned to show its more characteristic behavior. Rain and fog are keeping Ken's cabin in the clouds so we have been sitting around killing time by reading, drinking coffee and listening to some music.

Occasionally Troy and I talk about where we will be on our voyage at a given moment in time assuming we depart June 2015. We try to hypothetically map out our journey up and to the month at which we currently are. So now is the end of August, where will we be at the end of August in 2015? We figure somewhere around Panama or another Central American zone. These following websites are the ones we most readily use to study current conditions and monitor trends for given areas. Check them out!

http://passageweather.com/

http://www.sailflow.com/

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/BUOY/

The Bush and La Leyenda, That Salty Temptress

I have been in King Salmon working for Grant Aviation for the past few weeks. I am transitioning into a two week on, two off schedule out in the bush. This will help me save for the Leyenda voyage and I am excited to be in a part of AK that is new to me. I also had a pretty cool chance to do some flying around the Aleutian chain exploring some possibilities of future climbing or sailing trips.

Working in King Salmon is a great opportunity. Since it is a quiet village I have  plenty of time to focus my energy on progressing plans for the Leyenda trip. I have been studying some celestial navigation why I am there hoping that will come in handy. Also, King Salmon is down the road from the beach and I can chill and watch the water before work. Below is a little info on King Salmon, AK!

King Salmon, Alaska

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

King Salmon, Alaska
—  CDP  —
Location of King Salmon, Alaska
Coordinates: 58°41′24″N 156°39′38″W

King Salmon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bristol Bay Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 374. King Salmon is theborough seat of neighboring Lake and Peninsula Borough, but does not serve that purpose in its own borough, whose borough seat is in Naknek.

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• 1 Geography and climate
• 2 Demographics
• 3 History
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Geography and climate[edit source]

King Salmon is located on the north bank of the Naknek River on the Alaska Peninsula, about 25 km (16 mi) upriver from Naknek, near Naknek Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 171.0 square miles (443 km²), of which, 169.6 square miles (439 km²) of it is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km²) of it (0.82%) is water.

King Salmon has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc). Temperatures, especially extreme ones, are much less moderate than in the subpolar oceanic climate of the Pacific Ocean side of the Alaska Peninsula; however, average temperatures in winter are still milder than a number of cities in the contiguous United States, such as Fargo, North Dakota. The town lies just below the southern limit of sporadic permafrost in Alaska, and is strongly sheltered from the extremely wet Aleutian Low which drops most of its moisture on the opposite side of the mountains.

So, now I have two weeks off and I am back in Anchorage trying to figure out the boat scene. I have been looking at boats for months and finally had a survey done on an Alberg 35 that is in Whittier, AK. If the bank likes the survey and all other paper work is in order I am optimistic I will close on the boat before my next rotation in King Salmon. 

Since rent is so expensive I have been toying with the idea of putting my stuff in storage and moving onto the boat to 1.) save money and 2.) be on the boat on my two weeks off and work on her. So Troy and I are in holding pattern until the bank gives us word. Until then, La Leyenda is looking at us from a distance with those alluring overhangs, and fanciful curves...