Potter 15 - Broughton BC 2015

Potter 15 - Broughton BC 2015 - Part 2

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Water Trails

8 жыл бұрын

Broughton Archipelago/Johnstone Strait part 2. Burdwood Islands to Sullivan Bay Marina.

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@lornesmith9068 7 жыл бұрын

Glad you got out of that bight! There are tons of little inlets in BC that can only be run at slack tide. They turn into very dangerous rapids with nasty whirpools and projectile logs!

@WaterTrails 7 жыл бұрын

Yep, I could see just ahead there were rapids/falls that would've smashed my boat to bits. I've since learned that slack happens at lagoons about an hour after it does in the tide tables for the area (important detail).

@rustykeller8264 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video. I wish I were up there with you, in my P-15. Something I've seen other people do when making their videos, is bring their finger down from above, and in front of the camera, to point out something they wish their audience to focus on. That would really help in your videos, when you are attempting to highlight something far away across the water.

@WaterTrails 4 жыл бұрын

You're right, I'm working on that for my future vids, I've noticed that in other vids and will take note.

@francoislepine4698 2 жыл бұрын

I've cruised the whole area is two swingkeel sailboats (18 and 26') and entered/explored dozens of lagoons....Broughton Lagoon is one "puzzle" I was not able to solve. I anchored (and tied back to shore) near the entrance once....I was woken up at 3 am by what sounded like thunder...it was the rapids at full force!!! I stayed there for over 12 hours never saw "slack". The lagoon is so large that slack would be hours after HT on the outside. My guess is slack between the two bodies of water is ridiculously short and given the long length of the restricted channel makes it hard to impossible to time. Booker Lagoon on the other side of the island is about the same size and is a snap to enter but the very restricted channel to enter it is a whole lot shorter. John Chappell ("Cruising beyond Desloation Sound" 1979) could not figure it out either...and that is saying something! He reports hearing of some people having taken boats in there but that was "second hand" and could be urban legend material!

@WaterTrails 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you'd either have to have a lot of time on your hands to wait for the slack, or have insider knowledge of slack timing, or just be lucky. The rapids I pulled away from had a drop-off onto rocks.

@francoislepine4698 2 жыл бұрын

@@WaterTrails That statement of yours about "drop-off onto rocks" might be the key....if there was a steep drop-off in the long channel it would be impassable as the lagoon filled....once the lagoon was higher than the water outside the outflow might not be enough to fill the long narrow channel with enough water to navigate over. That is the first time I heard about a "drop-off". That is not the case in the many lagoons I have visited. My favourite is still, probably because it was the hardest to successfully get int to, Estero Basin! It's a gem! Cheers, F

@Hindukushsailing 8 жыл бұрын

Cool little boat, what is like sleeping in the 15? How well do think this boat would be around Florida on the Gulf side? In your opinion? was it really Charles? Good video!!

@WaterTrails 8 жыл бұрын

+Hindukush1234 It's comfortable for sleeping on, but there isn't enough head room to sit in the upright position, so if its raining it gets very small. It would work great for florida because you can row it into extremely shallow water. I'm 90% confident it was Charles.

@aarfeld 6 жыл бұрын

Tell us more about your encounter with the prince.

@WaterTrails 6 жыл бұрын

Sullivan Bay Marina, I was walking toward the floating laundry/library/restrooms, he was walking the opposite direction with a woman when he gave me the look of disgust :-/ (it's been suggested that royals are supposed to give that look to anyone they don't know). We passed again going the other direction. A college-age girl had joined them whom I assumed to be a student which won a marine science grant or similar. I googled him to find that he'd been lecturing about wild salmon in the area.