We had planned to leave late in order to catch the currents, but our plans were somehow amiss (an error in our tide app, of course). We ended up fighting the currents and making only 6 knots up Grenville channel, also known as "the ditch" for its strait and narrow character. Finally, slack tide came around and we made more headway. We were doing 9 knots around 5pm when we hit some rough water in Arthur Passage. Prince Rupert was our scheduled destination, but it was still 20 nautical miles north.
We decided to end early, throwing down the hook in Lawson Harbor and making the big crossing through Chatham Sound the next day.
We had a nice night. We made a big spaghetti dinner and finished off a bottle of whiskey. We made a landing party and rowed to shore to explore the beach.
Alden and Dayne had recently installed an additional inverter. Normally our main inverter runs our electronics and appliances off our battery bank just fine - except everything has an annoying buzz. It makes it hard to enjoy watching anything on the tele and we're usually relieved to turn everything off. This smaller, pure sine wave inverter powers our computer and tv silently. Ahhhh.... We watched a pirated movie and enjoyed the audio immensely.
The bay was pretty well protected, but a strong wind set up some waves and rocked us to bed. No complaints here!
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