The morning dawned bright and sunny and after a lazy breakfast we decided it was time to slow down from careering around the island and actually stop and smell the roses . About mid morning, we head ...

We woke bleary eyed to our alarm at 04:30 , fired up the engine and started heading out of Port Hardy heading for Bull harbour on the ebb tide. We had one other sailing boat that left with us, ...

We had bedded down before 9pm the night before whilst tied up at the marina and neither of us stirred until gone 9 the next morning (apart from a rude awakening from an angle grinder ato 6am). We ...

Getting up Johnstone Straight was now just a game of hammering off the miles. With no wind we knew the key was to travel only with the Ebb to get the current to push us. We checked the tables and ...

Tuesday dawned overcast, wet and windy as we sat at anchor in Squirrel cove but thankfully, just as forecast, around 10:00 the weather started to clear. As we headed out later that morning the wind ...

The previous night we had studied the weather and realised there was a window during 02/03 June to get up the straights before a strong wind event which looked like it would have trapped us in ...

Finally June 1st had arrived. May had been a hectic month, with the boat hauled out to fit the hydrovane and Lottie and Ed visiting as well as both of us working hard, there had been times when we ...

Yesterday evening we cruised up to canoe cove in lovely weather. After a hairy entrance to the lift area we settled in on the dock, had some pasta and watched a movie before having a restful night in ...

20 Jul - Pinkerton to Dodger channelThe day dawned a little overcast but still warm. We left our piece of paradise in the Pinkertons around 09:00 and after heading up to Eagle Empress(?) channel on a ...

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 ...