To hell and back and then to Shearwater

Take the northerly longer route of Oscar Pass or Moss passage?

So...remember our motto.....we leave late, don't go if its rough or windy, stay if the fishing is good!  None of the above applied today.  We had a quiet night in Pryce Inlet (an uncharted bay) with some Generator problems and some dinghy problems.  Both were not detrimental to our stay, but kind of urged us to head to Shearwater with Raven Spirit in case we needed to order parts.  We did leave later than Rick and Faye, but only by about 1/2 hour.  In retrospect, we should have stayed put and spent another night there!

The morning started off with the first rain we have seen this vacation.  A stiff breeze into our bay from the South east and low gloomy clouds....we are sometimes to dumb to read the signs - even after all this time on the water.  We thought it was best we head south as we couldn't get our generator started and the dinghy was doing some sputtering yesterday, so we hated to end up being stranded.  It started out fine at the top of Milbank Sound after we left our cosy bay.  The weather radio said it was only 4 feet at McGinnes - which is miles to the east of us with 2 islands separating us, so we thought...might as well try it, we can always come back.  But alas, we never do. 
A slight chop of @ 2 feet for the first hour and a bit and holey moley, 7 and 10 foot waves and holes that we were being tossed in.  The sound of items crashing and things being tossed around were enough to have us just sit tight and hold on.  With both hands braced and my legs wrapped around the dog (so she didn't go airbourne) - we bounced our way through.....it was an intense hour.  The fridge jumped out of its spot again and there wasn't anything left on the bunks up front......buttons, did I mention the buttons?  My sewing kit was on the front bunk with about a million buttons ( a slight exaggeration!) but when that kit blew off the bunk and sprayed buttons from one end of the boat to the other, it sure seemed like a million.

We opted to duck into Moss Passage to take the "backdoor" down to Shearwater rather than taking the longer route of Oscar Pass, as Oscar Pass would leave us with a beam sea for at least 1/2 hour versus going into it to head south down into Moss passage.  The scale of the map is that the route direct from our anchorage to Moss Pass is 30 nautical miles. Rick and Faye drop anchor in Boat Bay rather than go through any more of this yucky sea but I said, no keep going, I only want to clean up the boat once, I don't want to do it again tomorrow.

All is cleaned up with the only casualty being the doggie biscuit canister.  We will replace it Ruby!!!