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..................-- Lake Powell – Tue – Oct 3rd ---...... .......Beached Boat --------------------------------- N 37º 48.92´ ….....Farley Canyon--------------------------------W 110º 25.67´ .................................................................................................................... ...............Motored to start of sailing and to anchorage = .6 miles …...................................Sailed = 10.7 miles…...Sailed up lake = 7 miles

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Back on the water after two days of sitting found us having to do over 25 tacks into the wind. I'll say that the experience has helped us for situations like this in the future. In the Bahamas I had to tack at times but they were long tacks not constrained by canyon walls. Looking at our track above it looks like some of the tacks could have been longer but as I've mentioned before the lake was 72 feet down and quite a bit narrower than what is shown above with the shoreline outlined when the lake is full.

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We motored out to where we had left off two days previous and started up the lake.

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You won't see a lot of boats this far up the lake. The larger boats launch at Halls Crossing or Bullfrog and at this point they are down lake quite a ways. Some of the smaller boats, mostly people fishing, launch at Hite, but the ramp there is high and dry out of the water with the lake down.

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We launched the MacGregor at Hite in 2009 for a 3 day trip by just backing into the water off the shore. People still do that as you will see on the next page.

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On this day we sailed over 10 miles, counting all the tacking we did, but only made 5+ miles up the lake before finding a nice little side canyon where we again beached the boat.

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It wasn't Halloween yet, but the rocks nearby sure reminded us of that.

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Luckily they didn't influence our dreams that night.

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I again tried fishing but not much luck here either but it was still enjoyable.

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