Oh Boy.. It has been on my mind for a couple of years now. I really enjoyed our visit to
@Michael Davis's home. He had a large relief map of the Island with his 2018 trip, plotted.
I plotted the round the island distance at 750 NM. If it was a race doing 25-35 miles a day, 5-6 hours travel a day, maintaining a 6 kt per hour pace. No weather issues. You could make it in 21-28 days. This would be a let's getup and go every morning trip plan. Not what I had in mind. I am more in the model of 45-60 days. I have read many of the blogs and they concur that such a pace would be easy to do.
A few of the blogs talk about different crews joining them as the boat proceeds around the island. This leaves the impression that you could break the trip up, securing the boat in an anchorage if needed and dash home during the adventure.
I think Michael had a breakdown on the west coast and had to take just such action.
You are correct the trip from Victoria to Barkely Sound is a bit of a stretch. While there are places to escape into shoudl the weather turn foul they are tricky entrances.
The trip up the inside passage and down the west side is the favored route and how I am planning to make the trip the first time.
I have been chatting with
@LeslieTroyer about the idea. I think Terry is in if we can use the summer as a time frame.
Maybe this has the makings of a first SBO group adventure...
