5 Jun 23

I had another night of broken sleep, worrying about the recent increase of oil consumption by the main engine. We were up at 07:00 to get ready for our date at Watt Narrows at LW slack. It was cold, cloudy and raining, again. The anchor was aweigh by 08:24 and we motored slowly toward the exit of Baker Inlet, as we were running about 15 minutes ahead of schedule. When we got close to the narrows, it had stopped raining, so we set up the GoPro to film our passage through the narrows. The narrows looked pretty calm at 09:15, about 5 minutes below 09:20, so we proceeded slowly through; although narrow, it was again a relative piece-of-cake. We were back out in Grenville Channel by 09:23. It was just a couple of miles to the entrance to Kumealon Inlet and we were anchored by 10:28 at the head of the inlet. After we got settled in, I flew the drone over to check out the entrance to Kumealon Lagoon; at this state of the tide, there is about a 2.5 m drop from the lagoon to the inlet. This is yet another beautiful anchorage and we are, once again, all alone. In mid-afternoon, it was completely calm, so we rowed over to check out the lagoon. By then, the tide in the inlet was about 1 m above the level of the lagoon, so there was a good rapid/overfall going into the lagoon. We got within a couple of hundred m of it, but did not dare to go closer, for fear of getting swept over. Back on the boat, we enjoyed the rest of the afternoon, then had another excellent dinner in mostly sunshine; could “Juneuary” finally be over, or at least offering a short respite from cold and wet? We will see tomorrow. It was a lovely evening. Early to bed, to be ready for a 06:30 departure tomorrow. Prince Rupert, here we come.

53-51.973’N, 129-58.443’W; Log = 8.5, Sum = 733.7 N-m; Eng. hr. = 2.3, Sum = 3230.1