A short trip again today.
Leaving Boho Bay on Lasqueti Island, we immediately unfurled the genoa and enjoyed a 2 hour sail down Bull Passage and around the south end of Texada Island before the wind totally died. Then a 2-1/2 hour motor north, up the Malaspina Strait, took us to the entrance to Jervis Inlet. Total distance about 20 miles.
This is the start of the fiord that leads to Princess Louisa Inlet, however we have been there before and are not going to visit it this time around. Instead, we found an anchorage in a secluded spot called Ballet Bay. Very well protected here, and a great place to make the start for the run to Desolation Sound.
In the summer, this is probably a very busy place but tonight there are only two other boats anchored here. We have our side of the bay completely to ourselves.
Just a note on our new equipment so far. Everything has been working well. The Comnav autopilot is great, allowing us to create a route on the Raymarine chartplotter and then just tell Auto to follow it - this of course works best when the engine is running as when we are sailing we can rarely follow an exact route due to the wind direction.
The new Nexus NX2 wind data instrument is working flawlessly now and, if we ever get any reasonably sustained wind, could also be used by Auto to hold an angle to the wind - so far Auto mostly just complains about "Low Wind" when we try that trick.
Since we have had to motor some much of the time, we are making copious amounts of hot water now - a real luxury on a sailboat.
Although they haven't had to work all that hard yet, the solar panels are definitely doing their job. If we choose to just sit in an anchorage for a day or two, as long as it is even a moderately sunny day, our batteries are up to 100% by the afternoon every day. And we are able use our inverter and watch movies in the evenings without worrying about the power usage - another luxury on a sailboat.
Now, if we just had some nice consistent winds (preferably going our way), we could work on improving our sailing skills.
Patience, patience...
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