Port Hardy
22 June 2017 | North Vancouver Island, BC
Colin
Eager to move on, we left Port McNeill bound for Port Hardy before the wind eased and had a rough 4 hr transit into 15-20 kt headwinds. At Port Hardy we were the only boat on the more convenient public dock in front of the downtown. I was wondering why all the other boats went into the inner harbor until the tide came in and covered the reef protecting our city dock. Once the afternoon wind chop got over that reef, we started taking a beating against the dock. With no room for a catamaran in the inner harbor, we warped Bangorang around to another dock with a more favorable angle to the waves, where we spent an uncomfortable 6 hrs until the tide went back out. We decided to leave Port Hardy the next morning for an unscheduled stop at Port Alexander.