The Plan

The plan is for Ralph, Robin and I to leave our berth at Canoe Cove (Sidney, B.C.) on or about June 12. This will allow time for Robin to wrap-up her greenhouse business. I will be out working on the boat in late May to finish off some priority items on the never-ending job jar list.

We'll meet Stewart in Port Hardy on June 25; Robin will leave us and the 3 Stooges will carryon. Depending on weather and current, we will cross the infamous Nahwitti bar the day after that and then round Cape Scott and be on the "downhill" leg.
Stewart needs to travel to Nova Scotia about mid-July and will bail out via floatplane/bus/teleportation sometime in the following 2 weeks. Details will become clearer as we get closer. It is difficult to have a firm schedule when the key mode of transport is a sailboat; it forces you to have some flexibility.

We are on a “slow itinerary” [much like the new slow eating movement!] so that we can see as much as possible. All the literature I’ve read indicates that everyone wishes that they had had more time. Ralph and I will continue back to Sidney hoping to arrive near the end of July. The beauty of this is that we don't have a hard, fixed schedule which leaves with a lot of flexibility to hang out at an anchorage as the mood moves us! A circumnavigation can be done in under 2 weeks; we are planning for 5 -6 weeks.

I hope to have a satellite phone with us to test it out for weather gathering and email. It will also be used to provide updates to this BLOG on regular basis so that folks at home can follow the adventure.

We will also publish a map with our daily travels onto this site, which will look something like the one here only it will the route taken from the last report.