We are in Brown's Bay marina. The docking was another near gong-show. Huge cross current and 15 kt cross wind made trying to dock to our assigned slip ( against the current and wind near impossible) i could not get near enough to let the crew off before our stern was swept off. I aborted , then turned 180 degrees and used reverse to hold position while current pushed us into another slip on the opposite side...sounds easy when you say it fast!
Dinner tonight was at the marina restaurant; all are getting ready for bed even earlier than the "normal" 9:30! We need to be off the dock by 06:00 to make slack at Seymour Narrows, which is 1/2 mile away...one reason we pushed on today rather than anchoring earlier up north..it would have meant an even earlier get away for slack.
The flood current, which goes south, should give us a nice 'push' out of Discovery Passage and into the north, beginning of Georgia Strait;; let us hope we can do some sailing over the next few days on our return to Sidney.
Dinner tonight was at the marina restaurant; all are getting ready for bed even earlier than the "normal" 9:30! We need to be off the dock by 06:00 to make slack at Seymour Narrows, which is 1/2 mile away...one reason we pushed on today rather than anchoring earlier up north..it would have meant an even earlier get away for slack.
The flood current, which goes south, should give us a nice 'push' out of Discovery Passage and into the north, beginning of Georgia Strait;; let us hope we can do some sailing over the next few days on our return to Sidney.
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