An 8am departure put us in Prince Rupert late morning. Narrow Grenville Channel looked completely different than yesterday evening, it was flat calm – you could have water skied.
We took a “short cut” through shallow water (15ft depth, full speed) and reminisced about doing this on the banks in the Bahamas. The water in Chatham Sound was filled with silt, as most of it is shallow with the Skeena River feeding into it.
There was another huge line of logs, or we called telephone poles, all the way to downtown Prince Rupert. It was as if a tug had lost its tow, but it was from the big tides. We picked our way through like a couple days ago (was that just yesterday??) Finlayson Channel, and multiple times brought back the throttle to idle through.
Prince Rupert was busy with both commercial and recreational traffic, and everyone seemed in a good mood – perhaps the heat wave with warm weather was to thank. Apparently they only had five days is summer last year.
We contactless fueled (the dock was also twenty feet above us, as it was low tide) the aft tank and meandered our way back to Pillsbury Cove to anchor for the night.
Don’t be afraid of the huge aquaculture farm at the entrance to Pillsbury Cove, hug it on your starboard side and you can clear the shallow water it forces you into.
There’s always something to do on a boat. Tessa worked on cleaning the vinturi and flybridge area better from the salt we took by Slingsby Channel just before Cape Caution, Tom installed a Sonos amp for the flybridge speakers and worked on tweaking the Sonos system. We tried to spend as much time as possible outside in the light warm breeze, as we know it’s not every day you get this weather this far North!
