Yesterday we decided to add an anchorage midway along the passage scheduled for today. We have an extra couple of days to spend as a result of leaving HG two days early. So instead of going 35 miles to Cowards Cove, we would go 18 miles to Smithers Cove. Nice!
Unfortunately, once in Smithers, we didn't like it. It was lovely, but there was very little swinging room, it was too deep, and the bottom was rocky with poor holding.
So we kept on going. The next anchorage has rapids that we didn't want to deal with, or was too shallow at that time of day. So we ended up at Cowards Cove after all. Unfortunately cowards is poorly charted according to the guide. It's not charted at all on the plotter. But it is on the Navionics charts I have on my iPad. There's also the diagram in the book if you don't mind ignoring the entreaty that insists the drawing is not for navigation.
When we got here we found a sailboat already taking the one good place to anchor. So we're in a not so good place, but it should be pretty quiet tonight so I think we'll be alright. If the weather kicks up tonight we might have to rethink our situ.
I'll probably set an anchor alarm tonight. It will sound an alarm if the boat moves out of a specified radius. Since we're about fifty feet from shore with 150' of anchor chain, we'll probably hit the rocks before the alarm goes off, but there's always psychological benefit to an alarm. As long as it doesn't keep me awake sounding false alarms.
So the rigatoni bolognese was quite good, but as usual made enough for a small army of hungry soldiers. That's okay. It'll provide a couple more leftovers meals.
Now it's getting buggy enough to drive me inside, so I'll hand this missive to the post man when he comes by.
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