Yeva, Sailing Again

 

The Yeva has left Nome.

After several days of well-deserved R&R, Ella Hibbert has learned that Nome, Alaska doesn't have the capabilities of hoisting the Yeva for dry-dock storage through the winter. Therefore, she's set sail again, heading south to pass through the Aleutian archipelago and head to either Kodiak or Homer, Alaska. 

I hope that it's Homer just because I've been there twice, three times if you consider the one year that I went to Homer, took a boat across the bay to camp on the Kachemak Peninsula and returned to Homer the next day as two visits. OTOH, during the Korean War, my Dad was stationed in Kodiak, so there's that.

To get to Kodiak or Homer, Ella will likely sail through False Pass, a shallow, narrow inlet passable to sailboats and fishermen, but not tankers and cargo ships. False Pass is the easternmost passage through the Aleutians, and Tamara Klink and the Sardinha 2 are approaching the inlet right now and should be through sometime tonight. Where she's heading after that I have no idea, but I suspect it's someplace warmer and with less bears than Kodiak, Alaska.