Thursday, July 14, 2005: Port McNeill to Sea Otter Cove

We left Port McNeill at 4:00am to a beautiful orange sunrise over the mountains on Nigei Island to the east of us on the mainland of British Columbia. I was very nervous as Cape Scott can be very nasty and we did not have stabilizers. We met three more boats at Port McNeill for our journey. We had a writer from Yachting magazine with us for a few days chronicling the first Selene Rally.




We had a smooth ride to the northwest cornor of Vancouver Island and the dreaded Cape Scott. We went between Cox Island and Cape Scott through Scott channel and turned southeast along the Vancouver Island coast. Sea Otter Island has a very shallow entrance with rocks around it. Brian on “Further” (one of the owners of Friday Harbor Yacht Sales) went in first and ran aground (no damage). We all were cautious after that and each found some space in the same area to anchor or tie to buoys. We were tired after getting up at 3:00am to leave at 4 a.m., so we stayed on our boat and went to bed early. The “dreaded” Cape Scott had not been a problem on this day.