We leave Port McNeill at 7:15am and on friendly seas with little or no wind we make it into Port Hardy at about 10:15am. We spend about an hour their topping up ours fuel tank and filling our 10 lb propane bottle. It was another 2,5 hours of motoring into a nice quiet anchorage in […]

May 20.  Outa Sayward at 6am.   We motored against varied winds and currents.     Into the Port McNeil Civic Marina about 3pm.  All services seem to be a short walk from the docks.   Showers and toilets are “sub par”.  $1:50 per foot.    We do a grocery shop and watch the Canuckleheads lose to the

May 15.   Twaz into a not very friendly northwesterly up Johnston Straight, for 4 hours to a marina at Kelsey Cove at Sayward.     The marina was a small cheap ( 95  cents a foot) government wharf with electricity, water and nice close by showers and washrooms.   It was quite bumpy all the time, from

May 13.   Out of Campbell River at 7am.    Have to go through Seymour Narrows.    Much current.   We wait a bit and go easily through at the 9:30 slack tide.   We motor into a moderate northwesterely to a nice protected Otter Cove.    We stop for lunch and decide to anchor and spend the

6am start.     Motored about 5 and a half hours into a  building northwesterly.    Into Discovery Marina in Campbell  River.  Cost was $2 per foot (36 feet) including garbage disposal, nice washrooms and laundry.   Pay showers at $3 per.     It is a large marina within spitting distance to a large mall and all

Out of Deep bay at 7:30AM on mild seas with a bit of a headwind.    Into Sandy Island Marine Park, just outside of Comox Harbour in about 6 hours.    Nice walking on the beaches.

Outa Gibsons at 6:30AM.    Much friendlier seas today with a moderate head wind.   Motored for 6 hours to Deep Bay in Jedediah Island Marine Park.    Deep Bay had a dozen or so chains bolted into the shore for shore stern tying.   So we did even though we were the only ones in the

May 7 – We pull anchor and head out of the harbour to find a strong northwesterly and quite rough seas.    We did put the main sail up but the going was uncomfortable so we headed back to Gibsons Harbour for another night.    The winds were forecast to be better the next day.

May 6 – We leave Vancouver about 2pm.   There was little wind.  It took about 4 hours to motor to Gibsons Harbour.    We anchored just off the main wharf, about a 5 minute row away.    On the wharf is public washrooms, a laundromat and a free access dumpster.    Close by are lots