19 Sep 23

After a good night’s sleep, we awoke at 08:00. After breakfast, I started the generator and the engine ran fine, but the generator was not making amps, even after I pushed the 50 A breaker button. So, I called NextGen and they recommended replacing the 40 micro-Farad capacitor; I cannot get one here, so that will have to wait. We got going at 11:30 and as soon as we were out in the Malaspina Strait, the wind rapidly rose to SE 15-20, more or less right on the nose, so we motor-sailed toward the SE corner of Texada Island. About 2/3 of the way across, the wind freed up enough that we could sail, so we shut down the engine and sailed all the way to Bull Passage, south of Jedediah Island. With the SE wind, Home Bay and Codfish Bay would be untenable, so we went around the west side of Jedediah. However, the Admiral did not like either Sun Cove or Long Bay, and we did not want to be in Deep Bay when the wind shifts around to the NW during the night, so we moved over to Boho Bay, on the east side of Lasqueti Island. This bay is pretty sheltered, although open to the SE, so the wind was howling inside, but calm enough. We anchored here at 14:10 and I set the anchor-riding sail to limit our sailing about on anchor. Then, we settled down for the afternoon. The forecast for this evening is still for the wind to go NW 15-20, and we should be fine here when it changes. The wind finally slacked off in the early evening, and by 20:30 it was calm. I went out to check the anchor line and while I was out there a Coast Guard Sea King helicopter appeared and started flying low around the Sabine RCA between Boho Bay and Jedediah Island, but we never saw what they were doing. They flew right over us a couple of times then hovered low (below the tree line) to the ENE of us for 20 or 25 minutes. Then, they suddenly shot up to 200 feet and headed off in the general direction of Vancouver at a great rate, leaving us at 21:25 in quiet to wonder what the hell happened.

49-29.815’N, 124-13.866’W; Log = 15.5, Sum(2023) = 2948.6; Eng hrs = 1.8, Sum = 3577.0