Sailing the Inside Passage. Ketchikan!

Hey Everybody,
We are now in Ketchikan. We are well settled in with our routines. We've had a couple of exposures to the wide open Pacific ocean in Queen Charlotte sound and the Dixon entrance. We are motoring all the time and we occasionally put the head sails to assist and that helps. We found that just adding the stay sail in stormy weather helps to stabilize the boat. While at anchor in the last few days we've caught some crab and ate them. One night while anchored in a place called Lowe inlet I woke up with a start and found Leviathan was aground. It was a potentially bad situation as the vessel healed on a steep downward slope toward the water! We were very lucky that this occurred one half hour before low tide. That event kept me a bit rattled for the rest of that day. I am very careful now about anchoring. I've heard it said that "most useful experiences come from bad judgement"! ie, learning the hard way. We are glad to be in Alaska again and look forward to stopping in Petersburg. We are pretty much on schedule and all is well. Later. Stan and crew.