Alas no wind again

Date : 25 August
Log: 56077
Bar: 1015
Sky: showers/clearing
Location: Cordero Islands N50*26.7' W125*19.27'
Comments:

We had planned to go from the Mist Islets (which lived up to their name this morning) in Port Harvey to Forward Harbour today, but we took a hard look at the Tide & Current Tables and realized that our best opportunity for getting through Dent & Yucultas tomorrow was to get ourselves through Greene Point rapids today.

We motored (no, no wind yet...) down Johnstone Strait , noticing more boat traffic of all kinds. The days in the Charlottes and on the north coast when we would rarely see another boat are definitely over! Johnstone Strait was placid and flat today (okay, who stole the wicked Strait and replaced it with a millpond?) and we were joined for a short while by a pilot whale. The showers caught up with us as we entered Sunderland Channel, but fortunately they were brief, and the sky started to clear by mid-afternoon.

We motored through Greene Point and anchored by around 1600 in one of our favourite spots behind the Cordero Islands, and noted that we went 49 nm today! In discussing our plans for next day, we decided to go down Nodales Channel and then through Okisolo and Hole in the Wall instead of through Dent and the Yucultas as it allowed us an hour more sleep and still make slack water at both.

Cheers, Turicum