Repositioning Cruise - Nanaimo Harbour to Cowichan Bay
With the pandemic greatly altering our life plans, instead of moving to Vancouver for Hannah to attend Simon Fraser University, we decided to rent a lovely cabin in the woods near Duncan. Like many others, Hannah has had to start her MSc online. While we love living aboard Sea Dream of Clyde, it became clear that with no offices away from the boat to go work at, living and working aboard was just a bit to cozy. After a month of cruising around the Gulf Islands while working remotely, we got a month of moorage in Nanaimo for Sea Dream of Clyde to rest as we moved into the cabin. In the meantime, we organized moorage in Cowichan Bay near our cabin. With the month of moorage in Nanaimo coming to end, a good forecast, and perfect tides, my friend Kyle and I set sail south to move the boat down to Cowichan Bay. Wind forecasts for the Gulf Islands are very often suspect, and for this trip, they turned out to be flat out wrong. The route down from Nanaimo to Cowichan Bay is a...