<h3 style="margin:12pt 0cm 3pt;">Nomadwilly:</h3><h3 style="margin:12pt 0cm 3pt;">You said, "Just SW of Shearwater there's a most beautiful maize of islands, channels and passageways like the west side of Hunter Is. Every time I run the IP I say I'm going to cruise and take my time doing it someday but I never do it. Always in a hurry to get south and beat the weather in the fall or hurry up and get to Alaska."</h3><h3 style="margin:12pt 0cm 3pt;">I believe you would enjoy that, Eric.* There is a week's worth of nice anchorages in that run, and the fishing, crabbing are o.k.</h3><h3 style="margin:12pt 0cm 3pt;">CHS current charts for the run from the Weather Reporting Stations at Dryad Point (north of Shearwater) and Addenbroke Island (the last report before Egg Island, just north of Cape Caution) are 3939, 3936, 3935 for the IP, and add 3937 for the run west of Hunter Island.* You only need to be exposed to Queen's Sound for a 2-3 nm run from Cultus Sound, around Superstition Point to Spider Channel.* </h3><h3 style="margin:12pt 0cm 3pt;">Several anchorages in the McNaughton Group can provide a layover out of the winds at Superstition Point, as do a couple of north facing anchorages on the south side of Cultus Sound.* Campbell Island Inlet requires a high tide entry and exit, but is VERY nice.</h3><h3 style="margin:12pt 0cm 3pt;">On the south side of Superstition Point, you can find a spot or two off Spider Anchorage, and in Bremner Bay, on the west side of Kildit Sound, and a super spot or two in Lewall Inlet in Stirling Island, at the bend or at the head.* If you exit back to Fitz Hugh Sound and the IP at Hakai Passage, you could o/n at Goldstream Harbour, south of Kelpie Point.* </h3>*
Try it!* Youll like it!
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