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2024 Flotilla to Alaska - Day 23: Wrangell to Petersburg

by Laura Domela 3 Jun 2024 16:37 PDT
2024 Flotilla to Alaska Day 23 © Laura Domela

We are very much looking forward to some sun, whenever that might happen. We’ll be ready!!

We left the dock in Wrangell around 6am and headed for Wrangell Narrows.

We had a nice push of current with us most of the day today…assuming it would switch direction somewhere in Wrangell Narrows past Papke’s Landing since we were so early, but I don’t think I ever saw any current against us…just ...

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