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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With our bow facing the right way and no one in front of us it was an easy get out in the morning after topping up our water tanks. As soon as we were in clear air we put up the sails and had ...

It's a tough life being a ship's bear After winding down (even more!!) at Squirrel cove we headed up Homfray Channel to explore Prideaux Haven. We had been up here a number of years ago on our ...

Now we were south of the major rapids it was time to relax and tour around the more populous cruising grounds of Desolation Sound. For the next few days we decided to take it easy, investigat ...

During our rest day at Blind Channel we worked out our route south through the various channels to Desolation Sound. We knew that we didn't want to just go back through Seymour Narrows and so after m ...