Kisameet Bay to Fougner Inner Cove

The dreary conditions continued this morning with low clouds, followed by some breaks, then the clouds would return. Our anchorage neighbor, the sailboat Leigh Ann, departed before we did, as we didn’t have very far to go and we were lazing about.

As we left the anchorage using the southern approach, we saw the Disney Wonder Cruise ship though the breaks in the islets in and near Kisameet Bay. Being twice as fast as OceanFlyer, we knew she would be past us long before we made our entrance into Fisher Channel. We snapped a few photos of her and didn’t think much more about her.

The disney wonder, a wake machine

To our surprise, our encounter with the Disney Wonder was not so fleeting.  Her wake managed to find us. One mile from her path, the wake was still 1 to 2 feet in height and breaking, requiring us to turn into them to minimize reorganizing the interior of OceanFlyer. We are spoiled by the nearly non-existent wake from the Alaska Ferries such as the Kennicott, even when close.

The Disney Wonder then soon disappeared into the fog. And so we put on our fog game hat (Nav lights, Fog horn, intense focus) and made our way to Fougner Cove.

Karen had read about this cove, found at the junction of Fisher Channel and Fitz Hugh Sound,  and it has been on our list to check out for several years.  We read that it was a one-boat hole and hoped that we would be the first to arrive.  There is a narrow pathway into the inner cove with some rocks guarding the SE edge of the path. We saw no less than 13.5-feet under our keel — on a +6.4-foot tide at Namu.

We were indeed the only boat in the cove, and we found a nice anchorage that would give us no less than 15’ below the boat at low tide. It felt a bit odd, as we’ve been used to anchoring in deeper water requiring more rode. Not that we were complaining.

I flew the drone to get a 3-D sense of the cove. There is a lagoon to one side, with a shallow dinghy entry ringed with rocks. The Douglass guidebook says that turbulent water runs through that entry at certain tides, but we did not see any current at all in the area during our stay.

fougner inner cove with the lagoon in the backgound

the lagoon look rather plain, so we did not go in

an aerial view of the entrance to the lagoon for the next explorer to reference

fougner innver cove with fits hugh sound to the west

fougner inner cove provides an easy resting place just off fitz hugh sound

Later we were joined by two small sport fishing boats and light rain. Fougner Inner Cove is a nice secure anchorage and we had a very peaceful night.