Day 2

Day 2: -
At N49-17.2/W124-08.04 “Fairwinds Resort Marina”

We left Princess Bay and motored up to Gabriola passage for slack at 12:13. We transited at about 12:10 so timing was not so bad! We then went out to Straight of Georgia and finally were able to raise the sails in about 10kts of wind.I get annowyed with having to be running the engine to the point it is almost irrational. It was downwind sailing and we were averaging about 4 kts.

The plan was to either go to downtown Nanaimo, Fairwinds(schooner cove marina) or Lasqueti Island. Lasqueti was too far given our slower progress by sail so we opted for Schooner Cove.

Nothing of note underway, other than we seemed to miss out on what appeared to be extensive rain showers on the island.

I had tried to reach my sister Lori but was only able to leave a message that we may be in Schooner Cove. When we arrived, we had been given our berth by VHF but Ralph pointed out a women waving at us and I assumed it was a marina worker. It wasn’t’ until we had berthed that I realized it was Lori, I was so intent on getting us docked without a rodeo.

She invited us over for dinner with her and husband Kelly; we had a great dinner, watched some soccer updates and basically did an “eat and run” and were back at the boat by 09:30 p.m. Ralph was able to cleverly able to dodge his day as “cook”.