Скачать или смотреть Pocket Trawler, Kittywake, Tackles Rambunctious Discovery Passage, Vancouver Island

Our spring cruise on Kittywake, our Independent Shipwrights IS25, was enjoyed under mostly benign weather and gentle seas... until we were only a mile or two from our homeport, Campbell River, BC. Mercurial Discovery Passage decided we had to earn our homecoming. Slow boats must take the passage between Cape Mudge and Seymour Narrows with care. The tides rush through at up to 8 knots and there are plenty of rips, whirlpools, shallows and laminar crosscurrents waiting to trap the unwary.

We enjoyed the best of Discovery Passage the day before when we were pushed northbound up to 13 knots on calm wind and seas. That is speeding on a 7-knot boat. However this video shows that is not always possible. Our southbound return was quite different. We were at the start of a rising tide (southbound in this part of the world) but the wind and waves were from the south-east and funneling up the passage so the two forces were colliding. Add in shoal water partly due to the extremely low tides this week and wave-bounce off the shoreline, and the result is a distinct washing machine effect. Luckily the worst of it was only a couple of miles long and we managed to get into Kitty's dock just before the Heavens opened up.

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Check the following Google Maps link for Kittywake cruising destinations:
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Camera: Akaso Brave 7 LE

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