Squirrel Cove - We Made It

We pulled out of Nanaimo at 7 AM and are crossing the Georgia Strait. Much less eventful then yesterday’s Strait of Juan de Fuca crossing. Greg and Terry say it’s about the most benign crossing they’ve ever had. There’s an 18-24 inch chop, which in our little boat would produce a lot of banging around, but Gold Rush, at approximately 70,000 lbs just cruises through with only a slight roll. Cathryn is much more comfortable today. We cruised the western shore of Jedediah Island first, followed by the west shore of Texada Island. The forecasted 15 knot winds never materialized and the water grew increasingly flat throughout the morning. We’re hoping to make it to Squirrel Cove on Cortes Island for tonight’s anchorage. One of the reference books says there is wireless Internet available at the Squirrel Cove Trading Company so we hope to put up posts to the blog tonight. We’re finding Gold Rush to be a very comfortable and attractive boat. Most everything inside is teak or other wood, very pretty. Greg tells us this boat is considered a Pilothouse Trawler, for those of you who know boats. It has a fly bridge on which Greg and Bob spend much of the afternoons so far, sometimes joined by Terry and Cathryn. There’s lots of freezer capacity, and Greg and Terry tell us they hope to arrive back in Port Angeles in 3 weeks with a freezer full of halibut, salmon, crab and shrimp. We’ll see. (We have not had time to process photo's of Squirrel Cove, yet, so perhaps we will add then latter.)