30 Aug 19

In the end, John and Laurie did not show up in the middle of the night; they apparently, sensibly decided to sleep in the calm, quiet refuge of their Canoe Cove slip. We, on the other hand, had a rough night until about 03:00, when the wind finally calmed right down and shifted to the west. At 02:00, it was so rough and noisy (constant wave slap on both sides of the boat), that I contemplated pulling the anchor up then and moving over to James Bay in the pitch dark. Fortunately, after worrying on this topic for the best part of an hour, I went back to sleep and when I next awoke, it had calmed down. We had a bit of very light rain in the night and it was still overcast and cool when we finally rolled out at 08:15. At the lower end of the tide, we get quite of bit of protection from the east from the adjacent reef (i.e., not so much ferry wash); but of course it was high tide all night long. There are a number of seals hauled out on the reef nearby to warm themselves; they look quite comical and uncomfortable balanced on a rough, sharp rock holding their heads and tails up. But they probably have great abs and obliques; try laying on the ground on your side and holding your head and shoulders and knees and feet up at the same time for 30 or 40 minutes - its a workout. “Massilia” finally got underway from Canoe Cove about 10:30, so we hauled our anchor and got underway at 11:00. As they came up to Pellow Islets, we fell in line ahead formation astern of them and followed them north toward Long Harbour. John was trawling for salmon and was only making 4 kn through the water, so it was a pretty slow progression with the tide against us for the first hour. When the flood commenced, we picked up 1 kn of ground speed and then, about 12:15, the wind freshened to S10, so we turned off the engine and sailed the rest of the way. Their friends’ house is near the head of the harbour, so we anchored nearby at 14:00. About 17:30, we all rowed ashore to meet Richard and Mary, who served us happy hour and a lovely meal. The conversation was scintillating. We got back to the boat about 23:30.

48-51.633’N, 123-27.446’W; Log = 9.9, Sum (2019) = 980.1 N-m