Sugar: Ohhh! This is
a long trip today!
he blue dot is Wild Abandon and we need to get
to the purple pin. The timing of the
tide was supposed to be good but getting through the mouth of the south arm of
the Fraser River took some time. The
current swirled in there and any advantage of the rising tide up the river was
lost. We were going 1.8 knots. We were able to put up the main sail and the genoa,
which gave us an extra knot. Once we
were well into the river, we were going 3.5 knots and higher with both
sails. There were times when we had to
pull in our genoa as the wind was on our nose.
Then we were down to less than 2 knots again.
Transiting up the Fraser was challenging as it took us by
surprise when this huge cargo ship was barreling up behind us. There were many large transport vessels and
many tugs with tow. We were quite impressed
at the amount of traffic going up the river.
Rose slept for most of the trip but she did take the time to
check out the view along the river.
We made our approach to the marina through a narrow and
shallow (just enough water) route. We
were exhausted from 12.5 hours of traveling.
At least, we were able to sail for over 4 hours in the morning.
The marina stretched along the shore for quite a bit. We got a spot on the end on the inside finger
(top right of photo). We are quite close
to shore with a depth of 3.5 metres under us.
The marina allows live-aboards. We were quite surprised at how some
live-aboards have established themselves with flowers, garden baskets and
storage bins and even picnic tables with a canopy. 
Wild Abandon’s home for a month as the first two weeks will
be spent in Kelowna (Mae, Rose & Sugar) and Prince Rupert (Marty).
The blog will be on holidays until we return from our
excursion.
