Thursday, May 9, 2013

We made it to Roche today about 4pm. Left Kingston in moderate fog, light wind at 9 am about 2 hours later than we wanted. Outgoing tide pushed us almost to Port Townsend and the incomming tide pushed us up Haro Strait at one point pushing us to 16 mph at our normal cruise speed of 2000 RPM which normally pushes us at just 10 MPH. Fog cleared as we got to Mosquito Pass and it was sunny and warm in Roche. We grabbed the RHYC outstation while Steve and Michelle grabbed a spot at Seattle Yacht Clubs outstation on Henry Island. We topped off both boats with american fuel, just 3.96 a gallon so we can make it most of the way through Canada without fueling. Steve can do that I cannot. Will have to get fuel at either Shearwater or Prince Rupert. Cruised over in No Debt and had dinner on Steves boat. Pleasant evening sunny and warm. There is a Grand Banks rendevous here at Roche with the old docks full up. Getting an early start tomorrow so we can make Dodd narrows by 1100 slack and do customs there. Saturday is still looking good so we will most likely go all the way to Cortez bay and catch the rest of the group the next day at the Tidal rapids or somewhere beyond. No posts till we get back to some form of civilization after that where they have WiFi.

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