Well. It seems that we have had arranged for us (maybe) a subcontractor’s manufacturing recall of our boat’s windscreen. It sounds like a fairly straightforward refit but it has impelled us to make a 200-mile detour back south to have the Fox available for inspection at some now-indeterminate time in early May. In order to maximize the good we can get out of the detour to Seattle we have also scheduled a routine haulout, other basic boat maintenance tasks, and some administrative projects for each of us.
Upshot: we left Prideaux Haven and ducked in to Gorge Harbour on Cortes Island in greater Desolation Sound on 11. April. Good thing, too: while there we had a bit of a SE gale blow through that was in the low 30s inside Gorge Harbour, and was clocked at 50-70kph at Campbell River across the Strait. After waiting out that gale we moved south but afternoon SE breezes combined with a 2′-3′ chop and an adverse tide to reduce speed by 2kph and make things rather…uncomfortable. For three days in a row. When we have to essentially do a boat delivery instead of official cruising. And this, our first real wind. O to be heading north instead of south.
In between the adverse curent and headwinds, we have ducked in to Blubber Bay on Texada Island, then shot south to Nanaimo where I type this at the fuel dock on 17. April. From here, we’re taking the express route back in to the San Juans and thence to Seattle. Pictures? Maybe a few soon coming.
See you in Seattle.
– m
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