Sunday July 13th, 2025 This is our final entry from the 2025 blog to Alaska and back. We left Ganges at 6:30 this morning and experienced a calm cruise with the current going for us most of the way. It wasn’t until we hit Guemes Channel that we had four knots going against us, which … Read More “Final Cruise” »
Saturday July 12, 2025 This never happens, but yesterday it did. We left John Henry Marina in Pender Harbor yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. The “forecast” was for a reasonably mild crossing with the wind on our back. The picture above tells it all. This was taken about half way through our cruise across the … Read More “A beautiful Day on the Straits of Georgia” »
Wednesday July 9th, 2025 We are back in the land of plentiful and BIG boats. Cortez Bay is the location of one of Seattle Yacht Clubs outstations, and also a Royal Vancouver Yacht Club outstation. It’s a popular destination complete with a float plane that flies in daily to deliver and pick up guests. We … Read More “Cortez Bay, BC” »
Tuesday July 8th, 2025 It was an easy cruise down Johnstone Strait this morning from Lagoon Cove. Johnstone can be a particularly troubling body of water. It is about an eight hour straight from beginning to end and this summer it held boaters up for days, if not a week, from heading north. But today, … Read More “Blind Bay, BC” »
July 7, 2025 We left Sullivan Bay this morning at 6:30 and had a wonderful, glassy cruise to Lagoon Cove. Again, we have not been in this marina for 9 years!! Covid had a lot to do with this, so it is great to be back. A lot has changed since we were here. The … Read More “Sullivan Bay, BC” »
July 6th, 2025 It was an easy three hour cruise from Blunden Harbor to Sullivan Bay, a city on floats and docks. We were last here in June of 2016 with our first Nordic Tug 32. It looks a lot the same save for fewer houses and the number of visiting boats, no more than … Read More “Sullivan Bay, BC” »
July 5th, 2025 We made it around Cap Caution. Yea. We left Fury Cove at 5:30 this morning. There were two other boats in the harbor. From the beginning of our journey we had rolling 3 foot waves however the period was 13 seconds, very tolerable. The only issue is we needed to keep our … Read More “Blunden Harbor” »
July 4th, 2025 Happy Fourth of July. We made it to Fury Cove in preparation for our cruise around Cap Caution to Blunden Harbor. The day was actually sunny and we were able to do part of our cruise from the FlyBridge taking in the sunshine—what’s that! It’s going to be an early evening. We … Read More “Made it to Fury Cove” »
July 3rd, 2025 When we settled in to Coghlin Anchorage we thought we would be the only boat but ended up with four other boats. The big event of the evening was this beautiful rainbow, bold and vivid. It was a sight to behold. One of the boats in this anchorage was a Nordic Tug … Read More “Rescue Bay “A Whale of a Day”” »
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 We arrived in Prince Rupert after our 9 hour crossing of Dixon Entrance, safe and sound. It was a relatively smooth, rolly ride. We staged in Pond Bay where we were the only boat. We could see that there were quite a few boats anchored in Foggy Bay, which is another … Read More “Traveling Down “The Ditch” in Grenville Channel” »