Boughey Bay

Today our goal is to position ourselves near Lagoon Cove so we can make slack in Chatham Channel tomorrow morning.

The forecast for Johnstone Strait has been anything but accurate. While the forecast is for light winds, the buoy reports during the day report 30 knot winds. In fact, yesterday one large Ocean Alexander returned to Blind Channel after they got beat up on the Strait and decided to turn around.

Today’s forecast is for very light winds, but we expect something other than that, and decided to go the “back way” to stay off the Strait as long as possible. We set our alarms for an early start to make our passage first through Greens Point rapids and then Whirlpool Rapids with an hour of high slack. Both of the rapids are wide and at high tide you experience swirls and eddies but no standing waves. That allows for a wide tide window to transit.

We repeatly crossed paths with these vessels servicing the fish farms

As we turned off Johnstone Strait, one boat called us to ask if we were going through Chatham Channel and if they could follow us, as it was their first time.  We told him we were off to Boughey instead. We saw the boat on the docks at Lagoon Cove the next day, so his first transit was clearly successful!

We shared Boughey Bay with one other boat and had a peaceful evening.

Boughey Bay Sunset

Same view the Next moring in Boughey Bay