Baby, book and boat: Squirming in Sitka

We'll begin with the boat. Mid-March, a few days after flying in, I woke to a call from a buddy on the docks who told me that the high-water alarm was bleating. Ran down to find water above the floorboards in the engine room. We got a couple of pumps on the boat, and got ahead of the water coming in.

I spent the rest of the day scraping the Adak's seams with a wire brush and spraying in foam. A diver spread sawdust through the water to find any infiltrations. We watched the bilge to see where it might come in, but no luck.