Sam's Big Adventure

Rock-C · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:22 am Post subject:

Marty thanks for posting the link. I now have it saved to my favorites.
Sam, I will be fallowing your travels closely. I have wanted to do the inside passage for years.
Good luck and calm seas.

ghone · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:33 pm Post subject:

Hi I had an email from Sam an hour or so ago. He was going to overnight in Nanaimo as weather reports were not favorable. However conditions have moderated in Georgia Strait and Retreiver is making 16 knots for Secret Cove tonight. I'm disappointed to not meet this young man today but will see him down the road. Grab the conditions when they're good. Very Happy

George

Grumpy · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject:

Looks like refuelled in Secret cove and is now headed for Westview. That's one heck of a day driving and he was very lucky to miss the bigger chop in the straits. Halibut Bank got up to about 4 ft earlier.

Carpe "something"

M

ShellBack · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:52 am Post subject:

Hey Sam. We have been following your site for a while and yesterday it became a reality for you. As we are on the water in the Gulf Islands for the weekend I was going to say give us a call on 16 as you passed through but you are definitly boogying so be safe and have a great time on your trip. We will be following your journey and remember eat dessert first.
Terry & Valerie

h2omember · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:39 am Post subject:

Sam, this looks like a most awesome trip you have underway here and sure to inspire lots of folks, me included. I've been following your blog and noticed you posted a short video on one of them. Would it be possible to post a few more videos of this trip including one of Retriver really pounding out on some big swells? Looking for to each and every post.

Blessings on your journey.

dotnmarty · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:42 pm Post subject:

I'm bringing this back up to the top just because I think Sam's blog is so good and I don't want it to fall off the bottom of the 'most recent..' list. Checking into C-Brats is the first thing I have done every day for many years (well the second thing really). Now, when I get onto the site the first thing I do is check Sam's blog and his Spot. Then I find myself checking his (their) progress several times during the day. It's a wonderful exciting read and it's happening right now.

DaveS · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject:

Captains Cat · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:29 pm Post subject:

You can sign up right on his blog to get them sent to you by email too. Very convenient! Excellent reading.

Charlie

JamesTXSD · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

ghone · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject:

Sam is really moving along. Some of those current passes scare hell out of folks but he's doing well on them. Interesting to follow along. His track is unusual up the mainland side. Lots of hidey holes but exposed to swell. I've crossed From the Port Hardy side into the start of the Inside Passage not from the mainland side but interesting country. He'll be back in sheltered waters before long.

westward · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your blog, Sam. It's really fun to take this trip vicariously with you! Hope to meet you one day on Decatur. Cheers! Mike.

Sea Wolf · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:20 am Post subject:

c-ness · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:51 am Post subject:

Great adventure. I need to make more coffee in the morning just for this read.

ghone · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:49 am Post subject:

As Joe says the Inside Passage experience is available even if you can't take a summer off / on to do it. Tow to Rupert and then turn left to come down into BC for a while and then go back north into Alaska. You avoid the nasty bits at Cape Caution and others thereby. You can come down the long passage toward Kitimat and see Bishops Bay hot springs and the fun short passage into Baker Inlet. Pick a lot of your weather for moving this way. George

Pat Anderson · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:42 pm Post subject:

Well, you could do that. But for me, the absolutely most intriguing cruising grounds were between Calvert Island and Prince Rupert. This is the part I really regret not having been able to dawdle in. We had 7 days to make it from Blaine, WA, to Ketchikan to meet Patty's plane, and somehow the weather gods let us pass. So many cool placs we just zoomed by. We did get a good soak at Bishop Bay Hot Springs. Spending half a day with the keepers of the Ivory Island Light House, Brent and Slyvia Hacking, was a real highlight. Crossing Queen Charlotte Straight was a non-event for us, although we did get our fillings knocked about crossing Dixon Entrance, and that was supposedly "good" weather!