Our circumnavigation is expected to take about 17 days. Aligning this trip with the time estimates for the multi crew version (9 + 14 + 10) means we will be going about twice as fast. Actually, sailing twice as long each day is probably a more accurate description.
Let’s assume (5 + 7 + 5) = (250nm + 300nm + 300nm). And realize that wind and weather may change things. Some of these distances feel ambitious because winds will probably be light overnight, and we may be stalled waiting for the appropriate tides at several crucial channels.
Day by Day
- Day 1+2 – June 2+3: (Squamish – overnight sailing – Otter Cove) (128 Nm)
- Day 1 – June 2: (Squamish – overnight sailing) (~64 Nm of 128 Nm)
- Day 2 – June 3: (pass by Campbell River thru Seymour Narrows, anchor Otter Cove) (~64 Nm of 128 Nm)
- Day 3 – June 4: (Otter Cove, circle East Thurlow, anchor Forward Harbour) (39 Nm)
- Day 4- June 5: (leave Forward Harbor, circle Gilford Island, arrive Echo Bay Marina) (64 Nm)
- Day 5 – June 6: (Echo Bay Marina – Port McNeil) (35 Nm)
- Day 6 – June 7: (Port McNeil – Bull Harbour) (45 Nm)
- Day 7- June 8: (Bull Harbor – Sea Otter Cove) (30 Nm)
- Day 8 – June 9: ( Sea Otter Cove – Klaskino Inlet) (62 Nm)
- Day 9 – June 10: (Klaskino Inlet – Kamils Anchorage) (38 Nm)
- Day 10 – June 11: (Kamils Anchorage – Tahsis Narrows (Nootka)) (39 Nm)
- Day 11 – June 12: (Tahsis Narrows – Hot Springs Cove) (50 Nm)
- Day 12 – June 13: (Hot Springs Cove, circle Flores Island, arrive – Tofino) (26 Nm)
- Day 13 – June 14: (Tofino – Turtle Island) (32 Nm)
- Day 14+15 – June 15+16: (Turtle Island – overnight sailing – Sooke) (75 Nm)
- Day 14- June 15: (Turtle Island – overnight sailing) (~ 37 Nm of 75 Nm)
- Day 15- June 16: (pass by Port Renfrew – Sooke) (~ 37 Nm of 75 Nm)
- Day 16 – June 17: (Sooke – Thetis Island) (63 Nm)
- Day 17 – June 18: (Thetis Island – Squamish) (61 Nm)
