3 Jun 23

We slept well and did not get up until just before 08:00, to find the sun breaking through the clouds; glorious. After a leisurely breakfast, we decided to move on up to Klewnuggit Inlet to check out the marine park that everyone raves about. We finally had the anchor aweigh by 09:55 and jogged over to say “so long” to the boys on “Singapore Girl”. While we were doing all that, “Surfbird” got his anchor going and got out ahead of us, apparently heading the same direction. I had to clear a number of tiny shrimp-like critters from the speedo impeller again (don’t know why they seem to like to congregate there), and then we were off NW up Grenville Channel again. When we got into the tidal stream, we were seeing 3 to 4 knots of following current, so, with the wind behind us at 8 knots, we killed the engine and sailed, first with just the jib and a few minutes later with the main out, wing-and-wing, with the main jibe preventer rigged. For a while there, we were doing 8 kn over the ground in 9 kn of wind. We sailed all the way to the turn-off into Klewnuggit, and covered 17.3 N-m over the ground in 2.9 hours, mostly under sail. Just as we came up to the anchorage in Klewnuggit, a squall overtook us with heavy rain and 19 kn of wind; Terri had her foulies on, but I went forward to help her untangle the rode and got soaked. As soon as we had settled back on the anchor and got back in the cockpit, the squall passed and the sun came back out; should have waited 5 minutes. This is a beautiful inlet and we are anchored in the relatively shallow depth of 20 m; we have the inlet all to ourselves, for the first time in several days. After a late lunch, we rowed over to the head of the inlet, above the flooded estuary, to check out the incoming creeks, but we could not proceed up the creek, as the rapids start right at the edge of the forest. When we got back to the boat, the wind had got up a bit, so I rigged up the anchor-riding sail to stop us yawing about so much, for the first time this year.  

53-42.857’N, 120-43.600’W; Log = 11.8 (17.3 N-m over the ground), Sum (2023) = 707.0 N-m; Eng. hrs. = 1.7, Sum = 3224.4