Telegraph Harbour Thetis Island BC

Here it is the Victoria Day long weekend.  We headed across to Thetis Island on Friday and it was excellent sailing almost all the way.  It was particularly good once we had crossed the Straight of Georgia with winds allowing us to close reach oct of the way until the wind died and we had to motor into the harbour itself.

Telegraph Harbour

View of the entry to the harbour

Terratima all by herself with all the power boats

The cafe.  Very nice place

The "cut" between Telegraph Harbour and 

Clam Bay at low tide

Starfish in the shallows of the "Cut"

Houses on the hill overlooking the harbour

Only 2 sailboats:  Terratima and a Benneteau

Telegraph Harbour Marina - deck...

...and front lawn

Gangway to the marina

Sunny finally....

So out we came for the day...

Low tide - the pilings are very high

This boat tried getting into the marina but alas ran aground.  He managed to free

himself and is waiting a anchor for higher tide

John's boat and looking down the finger

Lots of rigging on sail boats -

floating hotel in the background

I made new Sunbrella winch covers

One broken and useless radar reflector must come down

Update Soon

After a week ill, I'm off to Edmonton again on project and PhD work.  I'll update the spring cleaning list including:

• Cetol on the teak
• Making Sunbrella winch covers
• Planning to make cockpit cushions
• Preparing for the installation of a SS Arch, solar panels and wind generator
• Flag halyard changes
• Teak cockpit table installation

Tides Illustrated

Now this is cool:

Squall in Vero Beach

The Island Spirit returned from the Bahamas and is now in Vero Beach where they encountered this storm

Lago Refinery - Aruba

I was looking at some of the cruising blogs and the one for S/V Balvenie shows their anchorage in Aruba on arrival from Curasao.  That refinery was where my father worked.  He was there through World War II up to just after my sister and I were born.  The family then emigrated to Canada

Photo from Blog Yacht Balvenie

Not the best view from an anchorage.  

Spring Cleaning

The raw teak (that is, the teak not finished with Cetol), weathers through the winter and has to be cleaned.

So here it is cleaned up and looking like new.  After cleaning, the teak is treated with teak oil

Here the morning dew is beading on the oiled surface

More dew and in shadow, but beautiful still

Teak has such rich colour when it's treated and oiled.