Forit Bay

Today was mostly a pretty chill day. The anchorage near the shore of the bay never got any worse than some breeze driven ripples, and over night the breeze died down and the water was flat calm. I enjoyed a break in travel until afternoon. I try to stay off politics in my blog, as I do enough of that on Facebook. But I had some Canadian hick come by and make a comment about my Trump flag. He was referring to my American Flag. I told him that flag did not represent Trump, but he wanted to argue the point and when I said it represented America he stated that America voted for Trump. I pointed out the Canadian flag that I have flying higher on my roof staff, and that I respected both flags. He said that flag wasn’t much better, and left. I didn’t like that interaction so I took my American flag down shortly after he left. For about 15 minutes…. Then I decided to put it back up. My love and patriotism for the country that I was born in, will not be dictated by those that do not represent what this country has stood for and continue to take the United State’s standing down on a global level!!! End of my political commenting.
Bill and Mike arrived early this afternoon and took on fuel at Shearwater. I pulled up anchor and went over to the marina dock where they also came when they were done at the fuel dock. I shared some crab with them, and then borrowed Bill’s oil changer vacuum pump to change my engine oil. Mike used it after me. Bill had changed his oil several days ago. Fortunately, Shearwater had a recycling center were we could offload our garbage and I could dump the used oil. After that, Bill and Mike walked around a bit and then took off for their anchorage somewhere on the route they were taking around Yeo Island the next two days. I headed out towards Ocean Falls, where I’ll meet up with them on Friday, and stopped part way at Forit Bay. A nice small and protected cove just off the main channel. Leaving Shearwater, I used Wheelock Passage to Seaforth Channel. The winds were blowing again out of the west at around 15-20 kts. The water was 1’ of chop as I turned on Seaforth Channel with the winds blowing down it. As Seaforth ended into Gunboat passage, the water calmed down. Gunboat Passage is a narrow scenic passage with a range marker to use entering on the west end. Forit Bay, where I am anchored now is at the east end.Read more