After spending a perfectly calm night at Deception Point Cove, we woke to more rain. We lingered over breakfast while waiting for favorable tides to transit to Wrangell. Wrangell is the but of many jokes in Petersburg -- but we find a perfectly lovely small town. Our first stop is the fuel dock where we take on fuel. The price is $1.00/ gallon less than when we took on a couple hundred gallons in Glacier Park. We now have plenty for the trip home and also a reasonable reserve. Our burn rate on this trip is just less than 2 gallons per hour. This includes the diesel heat (and we have used it a lot given the colder and rainier weather we have had this trip) and the generator (which is also getting a workout). The old single Ford Lehman diesel engine is a workhorse and remarkably economical.
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Next we head up the dock for a walk through town. Our first stop is the local hardware store where we ask about carbon brushes. Low and behold they have a vast selection (and are so much closer to Petersburg than Juneau - what is the deal here). We buy 4 brushes and get change from a $20 bill.
Soon we are headed south to Santa Ana inlet for the night. On the way we see Orcas!
The wind is supposed to be very strong tonight and we are looking for a well-sheltered anchorage. Santa Ana is beautiful. We are sharing the inlet with one other boat but there is still room to spare.
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