18 July - Benjy's mate comes calling and moving onto the Pinkerton Islands We woke to another glorious day with no fog and decided that we didn’t’ need to move until later in the day. We lazed ar ...
Relaxing in the Pinkertons
Holidays at last!
17 July - Pipestem inletAgain on waking the weather was fair and we headed out of Ucluelet for some R&R. Lining up down loud on and David Channel we had the wind right behind us so we put out the ...
VICE fleet - offshore
13 July - Effingham Cover to UclueletWe left Effingham cove on a lovely morning for the short trip to Ucluelet at around 09:00.arriving there after an uneventful passage through stunning islands at ar ...
Making Progress to Berkeley Sound
We planned to leave Port Renfrew together early next morning and woke to a dank overcast day. Leaving the breakwater we could see the fog closing in at the end of the channel and realized this was goi ...
"Shall we, Shan't we" - indecision on the way out and buddy boats
he wind kept blowing strongly into the evening and, with our exposed position, we ended up keeping an anchor watch until midnight. As the winds died down though we settled down for the rest of the nig ...
Adventures up the west coast in 2023 - "Round the corner
After a wonderful whirlwind trip to see Nigel and Theresa on the Shuswap we woke with a grand plan for the next two weeks. Head up to Ucluelet, sail out for 100 NM and then back again and then bask in ...
Up North(ish) 22-27 Aug 2022
Exploring the Northern Gulf island in sweltering heatOur next adventure took us to new pastures in the Northern Gulf Islands. We had been through the area when we brought BeTrue home the first time b ...
Our First big adventure on Be True 2 (02 - 09 July 2022)
Lots of new firsts for everyone We were finally off on a 10 day long trip on our new boat. The food and booze were packed, the bed was made and everything stowed away. After the usual hair raising ...
The Final Leg
Now on familiar territory it was time to head home. From Herring Bay we decided to follow our previous course via Maple Bay and Sidney Spit. On leaving Herring Bay the weather start ...
Back on familiar ground
On leaving Smugglers Cove our plan had been to head further along the sunshine coast initially shooting for Gibsons landing. Heading down the coast towards Sechelt though we soon found ourse ...