Yes, I know, a second post in the same day. The first during dead calm and now safely at anchor just after sundown. As you can see from the above photo, we were just zipping along.
Here's our path in a nut shell. As you can see, we came out from the North end of Montague Harbour into Trincomali Channel by threading the way between some islands tiny though they might have been. You can see the first jog to the right just after the islands. That was when we put up the sails. We then turned to port(left) and headed out into the channel. The wind then died and we were left to the mercy of the out going current as the tide changed. That little circle with star in it is a rock(try to avoid them!). We tacked--changed the heading of the boat till we got down to the line that connects the 12 and 46. Tack again into just about no wind. We were almost back to where we had started from almost two hours before!
Suddenly, we make a nice turn to the left--we cheated and started the engine and took down the sails. There was just no wind to allow us to get anywhere. For once it wasn't against us, there just wasn't any. With the sails down, we took off for Retreat Cove a few miles up the coast. Once we got there, there were houses all around the shore. We'd didn't want to feel that closed in by civilization so off to the next cove--Princess Bay(smallest bay I've ever seen). It had come recommended by Bill and Susan during our visit a week ago.
During our short sail, we had even put the DuoGen down into the water to try and get some amps from it but we were going so slow under sail that the small prop on it wouldn't go around. We pulled it back up and stowed her before we started the engine. While the engine puts out a good bit of amps for our batteries, we know we would still have to run the Honda generator once we go on the hook at Princess Bay.
As we rounded the tip of Princess Bay(48 56.638N 123 33.457W), we were greeted by six boats that had beaten us there. The sailboats at anchor and the power boats at anchor but also tied up to shore with line. During the evening, several more showed up and dropped anchor for the night. When we got there, there were two sailboats tied together at the entrance to the bay. A third joined their group later in the afternoon. All held in place by one anchor. Now that is trust in your anchor. More than I would have.
A lovely place to anchor. We launched Puff and plan to row to Wallace Island tomorrow for some exploring. We still have to take our time getting to Nanaimo for the part that is getting mailed in. It will be a nice place to spend some time. 
Here's a picture of the two sailboats on one anchor. It's nice to be back on the hook and off a mooring buoy--cheaper too.
As the Sun set, Tracy made chili for dinner and after checking the anchor and the line holding Puff to Zephyr, we retired to our cabin for a quiet evening of reading. Both of us are almost done with our books and are really chomping at the bit to finish them.
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