Looking back, it’s difficult to believe we were in Shearwater only a week ago . . . so much has changed.  Only two hundred miles have passed under Cambria’s keel, but the landscape, at least here in Prince Rupert, is entirely different – more “West Coast Industrial” than “Inside Passage”. But I’m getting ahead of myself again. The stretch of water along Princess Royal Channel is arguably the most...

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We only intended to spend a couple of days in Ocean Falls but found the appeal of being tied up and plugged in too much to resist; before we knew it, two days had turned into four.  It’s difficult to say what we had to recover from – a week of being pummeled by high winds, two long days on the water listening to the constant drone of...

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After spending eight very long days held up in Blunden Harbour, waiting for a series of lows, cold fronts and occluded fronts to move through the area, we finally got our chance to cross Queen Charlotte Sound and round Cape Caution on Sunday morning. We were determined to make up some time, so on our first day we sailed 74 miles . . . well, we motor-sailed.  If...

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The chart of Blunden Harbour (situated at a slant to the west).  We're anchored off Grave Islet. You know the movie “Groundhog Day”?  The one where Bill Murray plays an obnoxious weather man stuck in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and is destined to relive the same day over and over again?  Yeah.  That pretty much describes our life right now:  Groundhog Day. We’ve been sitting in the same anchorage for...

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