Around kodiak

30th May.........Peter comes around to the boat, we have a place for you both on the 13:00 flight to south of the island, if you're interested............."does the Pope wear a funny hat "?? too right we're interested..........wow, just great..........mountains all covered in snow. We deliver the US post to South of the island and then pick up a fisherman on the way back, Paul Dungan from Homer........good craiche, came round to the boat later.
I'll not bore you with all the boat issues...................lets just say, i was busy sorting.....STUFF !!
Until..................
5/6/15
Fisherman gives us 2 crab, boil for 15 mins in saltwater & then wash in cold fresh.......get as much meat out as possible. Gorgeous !!!!!!
Kabola photo cell arrives, connect........boiler fixed......the unburnt fuel encompassed the dock in smoke.............whoops scotties
Stak paks sorted
Blew up Peter's battery charger last night..........DOH !!!!
More work on the boat

14/6/15
Steve arrived in from France around 18:00.....made him a Salmon and rice..............fresh from one of the fishermen ..................just superb.

18/6/15
Getting everything ready for the off tomorrow.
We all meet up with Chris Johnson, Peter, Ben, David & Joe in "The Brewery".........then onto the Powerhouse Sushi restaurant, where Gill and the rest of Chris's family meet us + Joe's wife and daughter.
Good time had by all, Chris sneaked off and paid the bill for us all.......................what a dude.
Steve not too happy though, he likes to pay.......we all agree to meet for breakfast in the morning at King's Diner.........Chris will pick us up.




Terje and i doing some specialist tasting at the B&B bar

 A local pickup

A display by the Kodiak coastguard just off the pier at town dock

 Dungeness crab for lunch then ??

One of the "skiffs" used by the local fishing boats.....................retail $200,000

The boiler is fixed.................some of the passing fisherman were'nt too sure, they thought the boat was on fire

A few shots from our flight down the island to deliver the US mail with Ben.

Ben & i back at base

 Part of the City dock pier 2, some fish and mussels on the piles

Moored up at City dock, waiting for the crane

Steve aloft, re running the halyards to the foremast

Crane in position, fog clearing from behind

A diver cleaning the undersides before we leave Kodiak

Woody, our salmon supplier

Bit short of horsepower here i reckon