Fixed the throttle control in the cockpit. Also covered "Juneau
AK." with duct tape, and flew the Irish flag for the first time …
Almost ran into the wreck …
Beautiful bay, moored VERY close to the mud flats, but the boat was in 50 feet: let out
what turned out to be ALL the chain, nearly lost the whole thing, was held on by a rather
slight looking line. We hauled the chain back by hand and rewound it around the windlass,
very heavy. Decided that each length of marked chain was 20 feet, not 15 …
Crab and Prawn!! We set the traps in the rain, and dinghied back and forth between the
two traps. Hundreds of feet of line on the prawn trap, requiring a fair effort to
haul up and check (luckily the prawn trap doesn't need regular checking!). At
first the prawn trap was too close to the commercial lines, so I had to reset it. I
kept moving the crab trap around. After another hour, I hauled up the prawn trap:
five prawns!! I went and check the crab trap: one ENORMOUS crab. I was
reluctant to handle it, he had a big pincer wrapped around the edge of the trap. He
turned out to be a recently molted crab: the shell was quite soft, easy to eat! The prawns
were good too … Ching was uncertain at first, but Jane hand-fed her some crab, and
then she really got into it.
Lots of seals hovering around the river mouth, other boats in the bay, the Maple Leaf was there when we arrived, but left
around 5 …
