The Truth about Pruth

The Pacific

Today we left our beautiful, secure anchorage in the McNaughton Group to venture out into the open Pacific.  Instead of the usual NW winds, we found ourselves facing a light south wind instead, right on the nose.

The bad thing about a light south wind is that we really could not sail at all.
The good thing is that there was virtually no nasty wind-waves to contend with, just a somewhat confused westerly swell coming in from Japan or Hawaii or somewhere out there.  A little uncomfortable but not particularly exciting.

The dinghy was quite happy riding on the deck, although I don't think it would have been any worse off being dragged along behind in these conditions.

We made it OK to Pruth Bay on the northern tip of Calvert Island by 1 PM, and are anchored very securely.  Good thing too, as the wind did get blowing a bit in here - I am not convinced that Pruth Bay is as protected as I was led to believe.

The weather is a bit cool and overcast and we are getting pretty tired of being cold all the time.  What happened to summer?  Maybe it is always like this up here.  NOTE: While it seems we are so far north, sometimes it is easy to forget that we are actually considerably south of our old home in Edmonton, closer to the latitude of Red Deer.

The forecast for the next few days does not sound too encouraging - overcast with chances of showers and a bit too much wind for a comfortable sail around Cape Caution.  So we may be lingering around this area for a while.