August 31. Took Pi into a close by beach for a leashed walk about 7am. We left Clam Bay at 8:15 under sunny skies and with little wind. We timed our arrival at Poirier Pass perfectly and went easily through at or close to the slack tide. Once out of the pass and into the […]

August 30. Up early (6:30am) to row Pi into the uncrowded Spit beach. Did not dare let her off leash as she would surely run and run and run and we did want to continue our journey this morning. It was another sunny warm and mostly windless day. I forgot to top up the main

August29. Motored out of Port Renfrew at 7am. No wind and flat seas most of a long travel day. 12 hours of motoring, stopping several times for whale and wildlife watching and HH. We saw more wildlife in this stretch of the trip than any other. Lots and lots of seabirds on the water. A

August 28. Outa Bamfield at 8:45. Yesterdays nice winds were gone so it was a full 8 hour day of motoring past numerous light houses and a rugged coastline into the shelter of Port Renfrew. Oddly there was no public dock obvious in Port Renfrew. We had the choice of staying a private marina with

August 27. We went over to the public 4th Street Dock early to top up our drinking water tank, drop some garbage and take a quick pay shower. We motored outa Tofino about 8:15 am and then raised the sails, with a nice tail wind. This was our first whole day of sailing; about 7

Aug.22 to 26th. At 8:15am; We left Hot Springs Oceanside, sails up, in a slight easterly breeze. That died in about 30 minutes and we motored our way to Tofino in about 5 hours. First stop was for fuel ( including 10 pounds of propane) and water. From there we cruised by the main public

Aug.11. I was up at 6, checking the marine weather and condition reports. The gale warning had been cancelled, and it looked like a go. A short row into a nice pebbly beach for a leashed Pi, even shorter walk was followed by breakfast and a 7:30am departure in slightly foggy and calm conditions. The

Aug.10. Outa Walters Cove at 8 am and motor into a slight southeast wind into the north end of Nootka Island, at 1pm, where we stopped for lunch and decided whether to continue on to Friendly Cove at the south end of Nootka Island. We choose a fairly bumpy small cove to anchor for lunch.

Aug.7 and 8. I was up early; 5am and it was still darkish. There was however; already a steady stream of recreational fishing boats heading out to the fishing grounds. The most popular one was just outside the harbour near a light station. We/I pulled anchor and was on our way by 6:30am. The marine

Aug. 2. It was a quiet night moored at one of 4 DFO (Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans) mooring buoys, with one other small motor boat. I was a little worried about the shallowness in the cove but we still had about 14 feet of water under us at low tide, even though the charts