Weather: Sunny and warm. Winds: Mostly light and variable. Seas: <1ft.
When my Dragonfly 1000 mentor Steve and his wife Janet were headed to Canadian waters, we arranged to meet for a couple days. First stop: Hunter Bay, where we knew there was beach access to walk the dogs.
Initial winds out of Skyline were easterly so we expected a push across Rosario Strait. I set the main loose. Sail out to Rosario was as expected, then the wind died and we motored to Lopez Pass. Turns out Lopez Sound usually has wind and we found around 7kts out of the SE and managed to sail into Hunter Bay...with a scalloped main. Not the best entrance, but we got there.
First time we had rafted off another boat at anchor and we followed Steve's instruction, "Just treat it as a dock!" After initial greetings, Steve wanted to move the boats to shallower and more protected waters in the eastern portion of the bay. So Steve fired up his engine and motored us together to a better spot. Ended up moving a little further when a Bellingham boat called over, "Hey, if I wanted to be in a parking lot, I would have stayed out there with the other boats." Jeez.
Pleasant evening was had. The dogs spent a lot of time looking down their companionway at their cats....
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