We woke up around 7:30am after a nice warm night at the dock. We took stock of what we still needed before we set out and I went out to pick up ice, water and diesel for the Dickinson. There was no diesel in Sidney so I went out to Brentwood Bay to fill up the jerry can. I was back in about an hour and the girls had the boat ship shape and ready to go. We filled up the tanks with water and cast off around 12:20.
It was a quick steam (about and hour) across to Sidney Spit so we tied to a mooring buoy and settled in for the afternoon afloat in our little paradise… Sidney Spit is a beautiful little anchorage at the north end of Sidney Island. It isn’t well protected from northwesterly winds but the forecast is for relatively calm winds (5-15 kts NW) so it made an ideal choice for this afternoon / evening.
The wind picked up a little in the late afternoon and we flirted with the idea of heading out for a quick sail but the amount of work to organize things to head out and then come back and get setup again for an hour sail didn’t seem worth it now that we were nicely squared away.
We enjoyed a BBQ, played card games, talked, watched the sunset and enjoyed an evening together on the boat. Everyone got tucked away by 22:00 and we settled away for a night sleep. Around 02:30 the wind picked up a bit. Waves were lapping on the hull and the halyards were clanging on the mast. It woke us up so I jumped onto the deck and bungied the lines away from the mast. That reduced the noise somewhat and we settled back down for a another few hours of sleep.
We were all up by 08:15, had breakfast and untied from the buoy by 09:05. The girls had to catch the ferry back to the mainland around noon so we had a short sail and motored back to Sidney. We arrived back at North Sannich Marina by 10:25 and the girls grabbed their things and I took them to the ferry. Sara joined me and we dropped the girls off in time for the 11am ferry. We said our goodbyes and went back to pick up Deb who was at the boat cleaning up.
Sidney to Sidney Spit
Total Distance: 8.5 NM (15.7 km)
Engine Time: 02:06
Sail Time: 00:15