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My supposedly new Yankee is already in bad need of repair. But the nearest sailmaker lies 2,000 miles to the south. A knock on the hull solved that. Bob Denny was passing through Seward as crew on a Seattle-based tugboat. We met Bob and his wife Dianna on their yacht White Swan in New Zealand and again sailing in Vanuatu last year.

"Weight on a tug is no problem. Why don't I take it down there for you?" he offered.

10 days later it lay in the talented hands of my old friend Carol Hasse at Port Townsend Sails.

As for transportation, I met Mike Brittain at the Sea Breeze Inn. As he's an old sailor and skydiver, we had plenty to talk about. He said, "Hey, I gotta fly out for a month. If you drop me off in Anchorage and pick me up again, you could use my car."

My Perkins M30 diesel is smoking like a Kuwaiti oilfield. Because I do not have the money, space, or tools to execute a total rebuild, I consulted Bobby Dunno, the Diesel Technology Instructor at the AVTEC vocational school, as to my prospects of nursing it all the way back to New Zealand.

He said, "Why do that? Bring it in, supply the parts, and my students will do a top-to-bottom rebuild. And don't worry. I supervise their every move."

I am already getting the feeling that the cold of this Alaskan winter will be more than offset by the warmth of the Seward sailing community.

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