Capt.Mooron wrote:
"Gary" wrote in message


Victoria, where is Thom?


Victoria??!! Isn't that a retirement community? :-)

I was out on Bowen Island visiting a friend who just bought a nice place
there this summer. I spent time at Nanaimo and Salt Spring as well... years
ago. I sailed the roaring Malaspina as well as the Charlottes. I stayed on
Texada and saw Dick Island.... they say when the fog rolls in thick... you
can't see Dick! ::-)

CM


Yeah, sailing up here sucks. What route did you use to get to the
Charlottes?

"Gary" wrote in message

Yeah, sailing up here sucks. What route did you use to get to the
Charlottes?

Got on a trip years ago with a buddy I met up with in Prince Rupert. It was
on a Gozzard 36. Really nice boat!
I think we had 1 day out of 10 that it didn't rain! :-)

The west coast is an eye candy wonderland.... I love it there but I agree
about the light winds inside.

CM

Capt.Mooron wrote:
"Gary" wrote in message


Yeah, sailing up here sucks. What route did you use to get to the
Charlottes?


Got on a trip years ago with a buddy I met up with in Prince Rupert. It was
on a Gozzard 36. Really nice boat!
I think we had 1 day out of 10 that it didn't rain! :-)

The west coast is an eye candy wonderland.... I love it there but I agree
about the light winds inside.

CM


I spent last summer cruising in the Charlottes and will be sailing back
up there this coming summer for a couple months. I was being facetious
when I said the sailing sucks. I love it. The winds can be flukey in
the summer on the inside, but they are howling northwesters on the
outside. It is a great run down from Alaska or the Charlottes to Juan
de Fuca about 100 miles offshore. 3 or 4 days of spinnaker.

The thing I like most is the abundance of stuff you can eat out of the
water and off the land. It is very heart warming to know that there are
places you can still survive easily.

Gaz

"Gary" wrote in message n

I spent last summer cruising in the Charlottes and will be sailing back up
there this coming summer for a couple months. I was being facetious when
I said the sailing sucks. I love it. The winds can be flukey in the
summer on the inside, but they are howling northwesters on the outside.
It is a great run down from Alaska or the Charlottes to Juan de Fuca about
100 miles offshore. 3 or 4 days of spinnaker.

I'd love to do that run. I have never sailed the west side of Vancouver nor
much north of Texada.

The thing I like most is the abundance of stuff you can eat out of the
water and off the land. It is very heart warming to know that there are
places you can still survive easily.

Same thing here on the East Coast... you can live off the sea easily. The
water is clean and deep blue... I sail near Peggy's Cove and the
Southwestern Shore Mahone Bay, Chester and Lunenburg.

We tried Prawn Traps last summer off of Bowen... but we lost every one of
them..... H-m-m-m-m-m... were you in the area :-) I'm figurin' the log booms
scooped them.

CM

Capt.Mooron wrote:
"Gary" wrote in message n


I spent last summer cruising in the Charlottes and will be sailing back up
there this coming summer for a couple months. I was being facetious when
I said the sailing sucks. I love it. The winds can be flukey in the
summer on the inside, but they are howling northwesters on the outside.
It is a great run down from Alaska or the Charlottes to Juan de Fuca about
100 miles offshore. 3 or 4 days of spinnaker.


I'd love to do that run. I have never sailed the west side of Vancouver nor
much north of Texada.
The West Coast of VI is real open ocean sailing. It's best coming over
the top and south. The beat up the straits sucks. North of Texada
(Desolation Sound) is power boat country. A zillion of our southern
cousins and their gin palaces who have run up from Seattle for the warm
water and wilderness. They don't go west because it's too rough.


The thing I like most is the abundance of stuff you can eat out of the
water and off the land. It is very heart warming to know that there are
places you can still survive easily.


Same thing here on the East Coast... you can live off the sea easily. The
water is clean and deep blue... I sail near Peggy's Cove and the
Southwestern Shore Mahone Bay, Chester and Lunenburg.

We tried Prawn Traps last summer off of Bowen... but we lost every one of
them..... H-m-m-m-m-m... were you in the area :-) I'm figurin' the log booms
scooped them.

CM

Traps are attractive. I have spent some time at sea around Halifax and
the south shore (Navy) but not sailing. I have been out here on the west
coast for a long time now (and luvin' it).

"Gary" wrote in message

Traps are attractive. I have spent some time at sea around Halifax and
the south shore (Navy) but not sailing. I have been out here on the west
coast for a long time now (and luvin' it).

Shearwater... I did some engineering work around there... they upgraded the
diving area. Nice sail club they have.

CM