The winds on Wednesday, August 6th, looked great to sail offshore and around the Brooks Peninsula, a passage reputed to be somewhat rough. With for the beautiful weather we were having it wasn’t bad, but it was the biggest waves we’d ever been in. It’s really hard to estimate wave height but I have to figure that we were in 3-4 meter seas a good portion of the time; often at the bottom of the trough of the wave you’d lose sight of the horizon behind the top of the next wave. My partner got mildly seasick, but I had an amazing time sailing downwind in 15-20 knots for a few hours, until the wind dropped off and we were forced to motorsail to our next anchorage in the Bunsby Group. I chose what one of our cruising guides calls “Green Head Cove” and we dropped anchor at 50°05.6849′ N, 127°33.2296′ W.