21 Jun 22

First day of summer; longest day of the year. And, it is cold and rainy here on the wet coast, again. We had already decided to sit tight in Quait Bay, and this is a good day for sitting tight. In the morning, we took care of a few routine boat chores. After lunch, I decided to add “Breakdown”, by Jack Johnson, to my repertoire; it took the best part of 2 hours to get the chords and lyrics down pat and loaded into OnSong and then for me to get the timing and words all right. I made the mistake of recording my efforts (for the first time) and was not too pleased with the result; but, I will just have to hope that it sounds better to the listeners than it did to me - sigh. Good thing I did not quit my day job to make my fortune as a musician, although the guitar work and timing sounded fine. Laurie went off in the rain at low tide to see if she could see the bears that reportedly come down to the beach to forage. Terri decided she did not want to join this wet expedition and stayed inside with me. And that was pretty much the day; it rained virtually all day, except for a couple of short breaks. We had happy hour and dinner in our cockpit, as usual and did a bit of forward planning for the stretch between here and Winter Harbour, but most of that is well down the road. The big question is whether we will be allowed to visit Hot Springs, which is presently closed by the First Nations group that controls it - Covid-19 protocols.  

22 Jun 22

We ran the generator for half an hour last night before bed, to run the heater to warm up the boat. Then, we slept like logs all night long. We woke to sunshine at 06:20, but promptly went back to sleep and did not get up until 09:00, by which point the solar panel had already charged the batteries to 100%. After enjoying a lovely breakfast in the solarium, we got the hook up just after 11:00. As soon as we were out of Quait Bay, it was engine off and full sail, beating across Cypress Bay to the north end of Mauras Channel in SW 10-15, gusting 20. We carried sail all the way down Mauras, into Father Charles Channel and through Deadman Pass all the way to the fuel dock in Tofino. We had to stand off the fuel dock for 20 minutes waiting for a barge to get tied up, but then we were able to fit in behind him and bought 16 liters of diesel and 2.2 liters of propane, to top off #1 tank; the guy said he would refill #2 tank (i.e., it had not expired), but it was full and would not take a drop. We then moved onto Tofino Resort and Marina and were tied up at 14:18. We had a WhatsApp video conference with the grandkids about 17:00 and then went for happy hour and dinner with John and Laurie, at the top of the dock.

49-09.090’N, 125-53.723’W; Log = 13.1; Sum = 253.0 N-m; Eng. hrs. = 1.2, Sum = 2925.3