26 Aug 18

There was low overcast, with light rain early, but it cleared a bit as the morning progressed. Anchor up by 11:00 and we headed toward Smith Inlet. We spotted a whale just outside of Fury Cove, but it did not linger. False Egg Island was abeam to starboard at 13:00 and we turned east into Radar Passage just afterward. The wind filled in from the west and we sailed for the last hour, finally anchoring for lunch in Dsulish Bay just after 14:00. Dsulish Bay has a gorgeous, soft sand beach about 1/2 mile long, and we had a wonderful afternoon lazing around and looking at the fantastical shapes of driftwood piled up along the shore. I counted 350 rings in the stump of one old tree that was probably logged 100 years ago; so, it would have been a seedling about 1570, or pre-Spanish Armada.

51-20.349’N, 127-40.647’W;  

This is a great anchorage in very settled weather, but we were not comfortable spending a night here this time year, so we got the anchor up again just after 16:00 and moved a few miles up Smith Inlet to Margaret Bay, where we anchored for the night at 17:30. The sunset was beautiful and J2 caught a 10” halibut on her first cast. John got the “mother of all rat’s nests on his first cast with Graham’s spin-casting reel - kiss that reel goodbye, it is not recoverable.

51-19.976’N, 127-29.599’W; Log = 23.4, Sum (2018) = 744.0 N-m