FROM AMA LOG: Friday, 9/1/17 Octopus Group DEPART: 0615 TO: Heriot Bay ARRIVE: 0930 www.DecarbthePassage.net WEATHER: Clear, overcast, temp about 80˚ PILOTAGE: We left the Octopus Islands early in the am, first listening for other boats leaving the islands. Were we wrong about the tidal info at Beasley Passage? Why wasn’t any other boat up and starting their engines? Did we have the tides right, the date, time, place? Not that we didn’t listen to the weather two, no was it three times? Wait, there it is, another boat, and a fisher boat at that, they know, they’re the one who deal with this all the time. Lean in, knee on the up button, hands on the rail, lean out, check where the anchor line is coming from, careful not to scratch the hull. With 200’
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