That would be a really fun and beautiful way to come north! I'd like to come home that way sometime - we often forget to make the trip through Canada interesting, and sort of blast back and forth, trying to get between home and WA, usually. I sailed from Seattle to Ketchikan in 1981 with my family when I was a teenager, when we lived on the boat together, but I don't remember enough of it, it was so long ago. I remember bits and pieces, like loving being stuck in Port Hardy for awhile because a storm had blown our electronics off of our mast. Also some remote islands where my mom, sister and I skinny dipped, some great snapper fishing, and the big storm just out of Ketchikan that made us get stuck here, thus making me meet my future husband, and where my mom decided she'd had enough of living with my dad on a sailboat and, well, that's a long story. <g>
Danelle "Ceto" M17 #378 Ketchikan, AK http://web.me.com/anniesark9/Site/Ceto.html
________________________________ From: Tom Jenkins <tjenk@gte.net> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:51:36 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Ketchikan sailing road trip As an alternative to Danelle's route, we trailered our boat (a 15' Potter at the time) from California to the terminal just north of Pt. Roberts, ferried to Vancouver Island and camped and hoteled up the island, ferried from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert, and drove the wonderful loop from Prince Rupert to Stewart BC/Hyder Alaska. We sailed some lakes and the upper Portland Canal (the latter an invigorating experience), but it would be wonderful to put in at Hyder and sail down the 90 mile Fjord to the inland passage, thence up to Ketchikan. Take a crab trap for the Dungeness. Tom Jenkins M17 Scintilla