Its About That Time

Well, the boat is ready and we are too! Opening day of the boat season here in Port Ludlow is tommorow and then we get out of dodge until mid September. We will be using this to post our itinary as well as report on our trip north. Itinarys are estimates, not actual plans on where we will probably be, but with the weather, could be off by a day or two.

So, here is our plan for the first leg of our trip. We plan on leaving Sunday or Monday and will stop in Port Townsend for fuel and probably spend the night. That puts us in a good position to leave early the next day for crossing the Straits of Juan De Fuca. Once we get across, we will stay on the hook in Blind Bay, which is near Friday Harbor. We will then spend the night and head for Sidney the next day, which will probably be Wednesday the 16th of May. Our local yacht club will be there so we will say goodbye to them as we leave them and head north. The next day, we will head for Ladysmith. We will spend the night here on the hook before going to Nanimo the next day which should be the 18th. We should arrive in Nanimo early, but we have to time our arrival at Dodd Narrows so that it is slack tide. Dodd Narrows is about six miles from Nanimo. Afer picking up a friend from Michigan at Nanimo, we will head across the Strait of Georgia to Egmont which is a staging area for heading into Princess Louisa. After spending a few days here, we will head for Powell River to drop our friend off. Perhaps they will have wireless here so that we can update this post.