Entrance:           53°26.835’N, 128°33.613’W Moorings:           53°26.970’N, 128°33.566’W  (approximate)                         53°26.977’N, 128°33.408’W  (approximate) Hot Springs:       53°26.996’N, 128°33.675’W  (approximate) Cabin:               53°26.962’N, 128°33.154’W  (approximate) Disclaimer:  This blog article is not to be used for navigation.  It is purely an account of our personal experience in Gardner Canal, a remote wilderness location, during calm weather conditions.  There are no services or VHF reception and any boat that enters should...

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Gardner Canal (Devastation Channel, North Coast, BC) 53°34.683’N, 128°48.323’W          Disclaimer:  This blog article is not to be used for navigation.  It is purely an account of our personal experience in Gardner Canal, a remote wilderness location, during calm weather conditions.  There are no services or VHF reception and any boat that enters should be self-sufficient.         This is our sixth season sailing the waters of British Columbia and while...

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Bishop Bay Hot Springs (Bishop Bay, The North Coast) Entrance:   53°26.24’N, 128°54.76’W Anchor:      53°28.03’N, 128°50.77’W Dock:        53°28.22’N, 128°50.20’W Cambria is tied to the dock and barely visible in the center of the picture.  The two boats, bottom right, are tied to one of the park moorings and Salubrious (to the left) is tied to the other. Bishop Bay Hot Springs, situated at the head of Bishop Bay on...

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It's Freebie Friday again and this time around we have a link to a free step-by-step guide to using a sextant for navigation. The browser-based software is presented in chapters with graphics and examples to walk you through the process and ends with a test to see if you understand the information before moving on. The program runs on either Mac or PC as long as you have...

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Butedale and Butedale Falls. The Dock: 53°09.66’N, 128°41.76W   Butedale, situated along Fraser Reach on Princess Royal Island, was once the site of a successful salmon cannery where hundreds of people lived and worked from 1911 to some time in the 1950s.  It’s now a ghost town.  Like so many other canneries along the Inside Passage, it grew redundant with the introduction of refrigeration aboard fishing vessels and had...

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There’s an old Chinese proverb that reads, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”  I believe that’s true.  So, rather than write a blog in a vain attempt to “sum” up everything we’ve been doing over this past week or so, I decided to let a few of the hundreds of photos we took do the talking for me.  They don’t compare to our actual experience, so I’ll...

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