Sea Day - Rough Waters, Slow Going

Friday 6-30-23 Late evening thru Saturday 7-1-23
We left Dutch Harbor 30 minutes early yesterday due to expected bad weather that was coming. The waves started to pickup last night before bedtime. We went to sleep looking forward to a busy day at sea before we got to the next 5 Alaskan ports. As they say, “the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed”. We were up much of the night as we rocked forward, backward and side to side.

The rocking and rolling and the swaying began, and the listing continued all night. No one had a good a nights sleep ... some of us finally fell to sleep early in the morning just to wake up a few hours later feeling pretty woozy. The activities for the day were almost all cancelled. Room service became very popular.

Then the Captain came on the Emergency Messaging System. He told us about the STORM and GALE FORCE WARNING and then explained why we were not getting to Kodiak, Alaska tomorrow. The plan is to skip Kodiak and go right to Seward, Alaska and get there early Monday morning.

Currently and most of the day and night were experiencing 15+ foot waves with winds of 50+ knots. We were going a very slow but steady 6 knots to avoid any extra rolling. Thinking good thoughts as this is the worst of the weather we have had in 6 months … even worse than Drakes Passage.

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