Heading out of Sechelt's Porpoise Bay, (where we tie up next to the Lighthouse Marine Pub), back to Campbell River. The tide, and associated Current Velocity is not always in your favour. This is time to use 'local knowledge' to gain atvantage with back eddies. These 'back eddies' circulate and flow the opposite way of the tidal flow and if you know how to ride the edges, the push off the points and shoals and the locations of the hard spots, these eddies are crucial to getting anywhere!
If you don't use them you'll use a large amount more of fuel and maybe not even be able to buck it at all. Ging backwards is not usually an option or accepted
But itis known to happen
12 сен 2024
