Day 4
Day 4: Anchored in Cortes Bay: N50-03.7/W124-55.8
Today’s run: 49 miles
Total so far: 131. About 160 left to go to Port Hardy.
The original plan ( i.e last night’s plan) was to leave relatively early and head for Copeland Islands near Lund. Getting up early was not a problem since I hardly slept and was awake to hear the ship’s bell for most of the hours! Turns out that with the prevailing wind last night, this bay gets reflected waves/swell into it or at least the combination was right last night. I’ve been here twice before and don’t remember this happening. At any rate, it was like being in ferry swell for most of the night. At breakfast I apologized to Ralph for any crankiness that I would exhibit during the rest of the day.
Just before making the turn towards Lund near Savory Island, the updated weather was forecasting 30kts winds overnight and the Copeland anchorages are described as fair weather anchorages. We decided to go to Cortes Bay; it was only another 8 miles and is closer to Cambell river ( tomorrow’s destination) than we would have been at Copeland Is.
Today was a sailing repeat , for the most part, of yesterday, except for bigger winds. It was all downwind, but for the final finale into Cortes. By late afternoon we had 2 reefs, in over 20 kts. We were consistently doing 7-8 kts over ground. When we turned the corner to make final approach to Cortes, we were close-hauled in winds gusting to 25kts and took a bit of green water over the bows! Found out there is still a minor leak that drips onto nav station… potentially not good news for Ralph as his laptop was running as chart plotter at the time. This meant shutting it down just as we were trying to confirm the entrance to Cortes Bay. It is well hidden!
Good thing we had paper charts. As is often the case, this is when the depth sounder decided that to start reporting 0 feet!... it does this occasionally, due to either junk in the water or temperature layers in the water. At any rate, it is a bit disconcerting when you are making an approach to a entrance ( at extreme low tide) when the Coastal Pilot says “..entrance is extremely shallow and narrow….”
Repairs made today:
- flag pole metal mounting sleeve re-glued ( if I hadn’t noticed it we would likely have lost our flag!)
- re-mounted brackets for wheel/binnacle water bottle holder ( had come loose)
Boat speed indicator is now working ( after yesterday’s cleaning) but still has same problem as last year: still reads low. There is obviously some kind of restriction in the wheel. I will try to find out if I can input a different conversion number and get it back to close to normal. This will require checking it against the GPS when we are certain there is no current effect ( or at least know what the current is and subtract it out) I’m sure the “geek patrol” will be able to work something out.
One hour on the engine today and 0.9 yesterday so last 2 days have made up for first 2!
Today’s run: 49 miles
Total so far: 131. About 160 left to go to Port Hardy.
The original plan ( i.e last night’s plan) was to leave relatively early and head for Copeland Islands near Lund. Getting up early was not a problem since I hardly slept and was awake to hear the ship’s bell for most of the hours! Turns out that with the prevailing wind last night, this bay gets reflected waves/swell into it or at least the combination was right last night. I’ve been here twice before and don’t remember this happening. At any rate, it was like being in ferry swell for most of the night. At breakfast I apologized to Ralph for any crankiness that I would exhibit during the rest of the day.
Just before making the turn towards Lund near Savory Island, the updated weather was forecasting 30kts winds overnight and the Copeland anchorages are described as fair weather anchorages. We decided to go to Cortes Bay; it was only another 8 miles and is closer to Cambell river ( tomorrow’s destination) than we would have been at Copeland Is.
Today was a sailing repeat , for the most part, of yesterday, except for bigger winds. It was all downwind, but for the final finale into Cortes. By late afternoon we had 2 reefs, in over 20 kts. We were consistently doing 7-8 kts over ground. When we turned the corner to make final approach to Cortes, we were close-hauled in winds gusting to 25kts and took a bit of green water over the bows! Found out there is still a minor leak that drips onto nav station… potentially not good news for Ralph as his laptop was running as chart plotter at the time. This meant shutting it down just as we were trying to confirm the entrance to Cortes Bay. It is well hidden!
Good thing we had paper charts. As is often the case, this is when the depth sounder decided that to start reporting 0 feet!... it does this occasionally, due to either junk in the water or temperature layers in the water. At any rate, it is a bit disconcerting when you are making an approach to a entrance ( at extreme low tide) when the Coastal Pilot says “..entrance is extremely shallow and narrow….”
Repairs made today:
- flag pole metal mounting sleeve re-glued ( if I hadn’t noticed it we would likely have lost our flag!)
- re-mounted brackets for wheel/binnacle water bottle holder ( had come loose)
Boat speed indicator is now working ( after yesterday’s cleaning) but still has same problem as last year: still reads low. There is obviously some kind of restriction in the wheel. I will try to find out if I can input a different conversion number and get it back to close to normal. This will require checking it against the GPS when we are certain there is no current effect ( or at least know what the current is and subtract it out) I’m sure the “geek patrol” will be able to work something out.
One hour on the engine today and 0.9 yesterday so last 2 days have made up for first 2!
posted by Bruce Warren @ 4:36 p.m.
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