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I used to run between Anacortes and Deer Harbor on Orcas Island in a 14 footer with a deep vee and a 115 Johnson. That run at 30 kn would use about 9 gallons of mix which in those days you could buy at the pump at Cap Santa. We also had it on the pump at Deer Harbor.
I tended to make that run between about 6 PM and dark. It took an hour and a half. Generally after about 6 PM the water was absolutely flat. I think if you leave early in the morning you will see the same conditions and the run at speed should not take long.
Where is the place that they will put in. Maybe I will try to be at the same place. In the old days the smart money always suggested two boats for any long trip. When I took my dads boat up north he enlisted than a friend of his with a 36 Uniflite to accompany me on the trip. After waiting for the flag in in Nanimo to hang straight down, we ran across the Strait in water that was made for a 40 foot Bertram. That boat was twin diesel with a 14 foot beam and 22° dead rise. Running 20 knots in a 6 foot sea was sending buckets of water over a 14 foot high bridge. We made Welcome Cove with huge smiles all round. Once inside, the cruise up to Princess Louisa the next morning was a gift. (In those days, being a 76 dealer at deer Harbor I could buy diesel for two bits a gallon. That boat had, if I recall correctly, 400 fuel. It cost 100 bucks to fill it up. I refueled only once in the six days at a government dock in in Nanaimo on the way back.)
Okay so much for war stories, my point is in retrospect those guys should be okay if they pick their water and leave when the flag is hanging straight down. Also this time of year there is enough daylight to make a trip back when the seas are once again calm.
I tended to make that run between about 6 PM and dark. It took an hour and a half. Generally after about 6 PM the water was absolutely flat. I think if you leave early in the morning you will see the same conditions and the run at speed should not take long.
Where is the place that they will put in. Maybe I will try to be at the same place. In the old days the smart money always suggested two boats for any long trip. When I took my dads boat up north he enlisted than a friend of his with a 36 Uniflite to accompany me on the trip. After waiting for the flag in in Nanimo to hang straight down, we ran across the Strait in water that was made for a 40 foot Bertram. That boat was twin diesel with a 14 foot beam and 22° dead rise. Running 20 knots in a 6 foot sea was sending buckets of water over a 14 foot high bridge. We made Welcome Cove with huge smiles all round. Once inside, the cruise up to Princess Louisa the next morning was a gift. (In those days, being a 76 dealer at deer Harbor I could buy diesel for two bits a gallon. That boat had, if I recall correctly, 400 fuel. It cost 100 bucks to fill it up. I refueled only once in the six days at a government dock in in Nanaimo on the way back.)
Okay so much for war stories, my point is in retrospect those guys should be okay if they pick their water and leave when the flag is hanging straight down. Also this time of year there is enough daylight to make a trip back when the seas are once again calm.
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