Monday, June 24 Port McNeill to Let Her Rip Cove 21 miles 2 hours

We had a short ride through Queen Charlotte Strait to Eden Island.  We are trying a cove suggested by Tom & Diane Kuhn, Let Her Rip Cove.  We passed them in the Strait and anchored in what we though was a good place.   Otava came in an hour later.  They invited us over for cocktails but the rain was coming down so hard we could hardly see across the channel.  Neither one of put our dinghies in the water.  We were able to sit in the cockpit and read and watch the show.  Our weather station showed that 0.6 inches of rain came down in about 30 minutes.  We are sure glad we are on a boat.  Fred went down to the pantry to get something out of the freezer and lo and behold he had wet feet!!  The @#$% carpets were wet again.  So, he moved everything from the pantry back to the engine room, pulled the carpets up (again) and put them on the bow to dry.  A few minutes later he went to check the carpets and found that the wind had blown one of them  overboard.  Looking down the port side of the boat he saw it merrily floating away.  So, with much haste, he galloped to the stern, grabbed the boat hook, jumped out on the swim platform and rescued the floating carpet.  Of course then he had to rinse it with fresh water to get rid of the salt.  Presently it is drying, again, in the cockpit.  Now, back to the water story.  He found the bloody T/P valve was leaking at the  hot water heater.  So he got another 360o turn on it and now we wait and see…