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colobear
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 Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject: what's the earliest you can head up the inside passage? |
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We are doing planning for next year and going up the inside passage is high on the list. I don't know how early is too early to start. Yes I understand all is weather dependent but there should be some general guidelines. Is mid May too early? How about late April? I'd appreciate some wisdom from those who've made the trip.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| Barry, if I were you I would start right after the Friday Harbor gathering, not before. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| Hi Barry, I made the run up the inside to Prince Rupert in a 27 foot sailboat one year leaving Nanaimo May 8th. We were in Rupert by mid May and then strait on for Dutch Harbour before the end of May. (crossing the North Pacific end of May....not recomended ....14 days to Dutch, I still have bruises) The run to Rupert had a couple of grumpy days and we had to push, but you don't. Wait out the grumpy days and grab the good ones and you'll have no worries. It's remote and empty of travelers for the most part that early, I know you'll be prepared. George |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| You might also check with your insurance carrier, I don't recall the date off the top of my head, but if I recall cannot go above Port Hardy until after May something. I have Chubb yacht insurance. This may also be a factor for others as well. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:18 am Post subject: |
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Thataway Bob gave a date for this, and another for the cut-off in the fall, only a month or so ago, in answer to a similar question. He'll be chiming in here pretty soon, I'm sure!
Joe.  
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:57 am Post subject: Re: what's the earliest you can head up the inside passage? |
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| colobear wrote: | | We are doing planning for next year and going up the inside passage is high on the list. I don't know how early is too early to start. Yes I understand all is weather dependent but there should be some general guidelines. Is mid May too early? How about late April? I'd appreciate some wisdom from those who've made the trip. |
Hope to see you up there, somewhere! We are also planning to head north, perhaps for as much as 3 months. Probably leave Anacortes mid-May but it is all very preliminary at this point.
Warren
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:50 am Post subject: |
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That's so cool Warren i hope you and Lori have a great time. i will be jealous. it will be fun to track you SPOT..
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Barry,
The trip north sounds great. Did I miss the reports on your boat travels after Lake Powell, other than the ball/hitch issue? I'll look for them but otherwise you'll have to let us know what you thought of some of the California waters you visited.
Good luck on the planning for the inside passage trip. (think of Wandering Sagebrush's usual sign off line)
Jim
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking of using the Friday Harbor gathering as a jump off for Desolation Sound & perhaps as far as the Broughtons. Ought to be great waterfalls that time of year.
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Doryman
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: what's the earliest you can head up the inside passage? |
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| colobear wrote: | | We are doing planning for next year and going up the inside passage is high on the list. I don't know how early is too early to start. Yes I understand all is weather dependent but there should be some general guidelines. Is mid May too early? How about late April? I'd appreciate some wisdom from those who've made the trip. |
Barry, I have received some excellent advice from Richard Cook (if you haven't bought his book on cruising Alaska yet, be sure to do so!) WRT your specific question, he told me that:
| Quote: | | The one trip we did from Everett all the way up through SE AK we started May 9 and returned in late August. May had us slipping on frost in Port Hardy, and we had rain/cool through most of June. |
You did not ask about August, but I did, and he told me that:
| Quote: | | I'd say the first winter winds tend to arrive in SE AK late August or early September. I've had tough conditions for several days in late August or very early September in SE AK twice so far. Best weather in SE AK usually seems to be late June through late August. |
HTH.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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In our Cal 46 we left Sequim the end of April and were back by mid Oct. The season is really fairly long. The fall was more of a problem than the spring--in that there were more heavy winds, and colder weather. I would not hesitate to head out the first part of May, and just watch local conditions.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:02 am Post subject: to early |
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went to ak last year. left may 16 still had weather days. never went out in over 4 ft and 15 knots. mostly ran in the smooth. have a good trip.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Barry,
You should maybe leave today it's probably warmer up there 
Let us know how the planning goes we would love to buddy boat with you on at least some of it and we are busy training our new Pup to be a C-dog (She is already a Brat!!).
Glad to hear of your lucky escape with the trailer. I see that someone else had the same problem with bad consequences according to Komo4.
Let's get together and yak sometime soon.
Merv & Kathy
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Doryman
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| Grumpy wrote: | | Let us know how the planning goes we would love to buddy boat with you on at least some of it and we are busy training our new Pup to be a C-dog (She is already a Brat!!). |
Merv (and all others who cruise with dogs) -- have you had any luck with using a pee pad device for the dogs so you don't have to take them ashore?
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Grumpy
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Warren,
She is only 5 months old and her only trip so far was Oak Harbor to Deception pass where we sprinkled the ashes of our last German Shepherd then we hauled the boat for the Winter.
Our latest is a Mini Australian Shepherd who should only get to about 35 lbs and will be much more boat friendly. So far she does her business pretty much on command outside the house so I don't think we will have too much trouble training her to poop on the poop deck. Problem will be in getting rid of her excess energy. Maybe I can get a treadmill and connect it to a generator.
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