Montague Harbour → Sidney Spit
SE 5–11 kn, moderate breeze · sea 17.8°C · cabin 21.5°C
under way 08:28 — 14:47 · 6.4 hours on passage
Captain's Log
09:15
Left Montague at 7:30, Rizpah following a bit behind. Managed to get the sails up just outside the harbour and sailed slowly past Active Pass with the fishing lines down.
About 1-2 kts of current against us made the progress slow and had to put the motor on a couple of times to get us round Portlock Point.
Lots of ferry and tanker traffic making the sailing quite interesting. At least a ferry going by every 10-15 mins.
Managed to hook a good sized coho going past Captain Passage doing about 5 kts.
Had to motor the last few miles with dying wind and anchored just outside the mooring balls around 3pm. We noted 10 ft on the sounder on an 8.8 ft tide coming into Sidney Spit.
Went for a walk around the spit and then hosted dinner for Nick, Catalina and Family with the salmon we caught.
The Numbers
Montague Harbour to Sidney Spit, 22.9 NM made good — 11.0 sailed, 11.9 motored. Sails up just outside the harbour with fishing lines down past Active Pass; 1-2 kn of current against made it slow, motoring a couple of times around Portlock Point. Constant ferry/tanker traffic. Hooked a good-sized coho off Captain Passage at ~5 kn. Dying wind meant motoring the last few miles. Anchored just outside the mooring balls ~15:00, 10 ft on the sounder on an 8.8 ft tide coming in. Engine 873.1h, 7.3 L fuel.
Forecast — Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo
“Wind: Wind light except northwest 10 to 15 knots near Vancouver Island this morning and northwest 5 to 15 near Vancouver Island tonight. Wind becoming southeast 10 late overnight except northwest 10 to 15 near Vancouver Island. Wind becoming light Monday morning then becoming northwest 5 to 15 Monday evening.”
under sail · under power ·
from Montague Harbour to Sidney Spit
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