Travel
Repositioning Cruise
Last Sunday, September 30th, my friends Bjarne Hansen and Peter Holland assisted me with repositioning Scream to her new home in Victoria's downtown inner harbour. As the date and course were fixed, the weather decided to punish me for my presumptuousness. The winds wailed all night, and the forecast was for Gales35-45 on the nose, […]
Chris, Trina, and Ganges
Scream traveled to Ganges this weekend with our friends Chris and Trina. Sailing is new to both of them so we were pleased to share a relaxing weekend. We departed in 20+ knots from the south, and briefly made 7 knots close reach, but mostly the winds were quite light and we struggled to keep […]
Broken Group
June 16-29, 2007, we took our first long trip on Scream. We traveled from our dock in Sidney down around the southern tip of Vancouver Island, then up the West Coast to Barkley Sound and the islands in the Pacific Rim National Park known as the Broken Group. We spent a couple of days in […]
Turtle Harbour
Turtle (or Dodd) Harbour (48°55'00"N, 125°19'40"W) is a space about a 1000 m long and 400m to 600m wide between Turtle and Dodd islands in the Broken Group. Scream spent two nights at anchor here in 10m depth and a sand bottom. The prevailing wind outside the harbour were up to 10 knots, and it […]
Island Harbour
Scream spent one night at anchor in Island Harbour(48°55'01"N, 125°16'29"W) in the broken group. We sheltered in a small inlet on the north side of the harbour. We had to set the anchor twice as the first time it did not hold in 10m with a sand bottom. The location was peaceful and beautiful. We […]
Nettle Island
Scream anchored one night in the cove on the South Side of Nettle Island(48°55'44"N, 125°15'08" W ) with the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve - Broken Group Unit warden float. We entered from Imperial Eagle Channel. Most of the rocks on the chart were either above the surface or deeper than 10 feet, so the […]
Effingham Bay
Scream anchored in Effingham bay (48°53'N, 125°19'W) for three nights on our trip to the broken group. Effingham bay is a square roughly 400 meters on a side. There is room for at least a dozen boats to swing at anchor. When we were there there were between three and five boats overnight with generous […]
Gone Fission in the Broken Group
Checking out the islands and bays in the Broken Group in our dinghy, Gone Fission. Click To Play
Heading to the Broken Group
A look at Scream sailing past Vancouver Island en route to a two week holiday in the Broken Group. Click To Play
Fighting the tide
We got a bit of a late departure on our trip to the broken group this morning, leaving at 10am. We passed Moon Shadow off Sidney, then alternated motoring and sailing down Cordova Channel in light south westerlies. In Haro straight the winds increased to 15-20 knots, so we started to sail consistently. We made […]