Strong Seas to Port Hardy

Billy&Lizzie

Starting the morning with a top up of fuel, water, garbage dump at Port Mcniell, we headed out further North to Port Hardy. It was a great sailing day, albeit with the Northwesterly’s, we tacked our way into Hardy Bay with a double reefed main and Genoa. With the 20-25knt winds, choppy sea’s meant Lizzie had her first batch of seasickness as Billy took the helm for majority. As we approached port hardy, the wind died down, and we motor sailed (or PAS as we’ve been told it’s called?) into the bay. Given how large the Bay Area is, it’s not a protected as we thought, but seeing a familiar boat rafted, we anchored just behind them. It gets shallow quickly after the sea plane takeoff area, so Lizzie got some good practice manually brining up that anchor a couple of time before. we got the right spot! Now it’s time to dry all our bedding whilst the sun is out, as we left the portholes open in the v berth, and the waves were fierce enough to enter and soak through- another thing we’ve learnt to check before heading out! All in all, today was a good experience for us before heading around the most northern point - the feared Cape Scott! Oh. And we saw two sea otters and a whale tail!

Boat & Crew

Steph'Ney Thames

Pearson, 365 Ketch

Billy&Lizzie

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