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May 6: Into Canadian Waters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Having passed muster with Canadian Border Services, Jupiter departs Customs at Port Sidney, smugly displaying her orange Canadian transit permit in the salon window, as if someone might get close enough to the boat to see it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She shapes her course northwestward along the Inside Passage – The Marine Expressway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under clear skies on favorable seas we travel through the Gulf Islands bypassing our favorite harbors where aging tie-dyed hippies<\/a> and 1960’s draft-dodgers keep life groovy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making slack water in time at Gabriola Pass we anchor up, tucked up within a small uninhabited archipelago, providing overnight shelter from the Georgia Strait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

May 7: Straits + Narrows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A long, eventless passage in settled weather leads Jupiter to the western end of the Strait where Vancouver Island imposes a geographic assault on the mainland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here wits and tidal waters are compressed and accelerated. Mariners quickly become hydrologists and horologists, referencing moon cycles, and timing tides and currents in order to continue the journey.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Seymour Narrows, where flood and ebb currents run to 16 knots, demands attention. Mariners are required to exploit a brief window for passage on a quardiurnal schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n