[password] STUART32

[position] 57 28.710N 135 53.629w

[date] 2019-08-23

[status] Tonight's anchorage is in Wooded Knoll Cove, which is towards the head of Slocum Arm. Whilst its well protected and seriously pretty we are anchoring in what is essentially one giant rock hand basin. There appears to be no sand, mud, gravel, shale, grass, weed, basically nothing but a smooth hard rock bottom. Fortunately we have benign conditions so 60m of chain with a 100lb bruce is more than enough in 15m of water to keep us held tonight. Interestingly on the way in we thought we saw an uncharted shoal in 120m of water when approaching the northern end of the entrance to the anchorage. We later realised that is was a dead whale that was around 2m underwater lying upside down. Another eye opener was that the Navionics charts were off by a very large margin, and were so for most of the anchorages nearby. If you looked at our tracks on Navionics we have anchored on land. The government charts available via Navionics however were fine, as were the C-Map charts from Jeppersen on our chartplotter.

[weather] Overcast with light rain, no wind or swell.
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