It’s another traveling day, but because slack at Yuculta Rapids isn’t until 1343 hrs, we don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn. Yay! We worried that the wind might be a factor, since the forecast calls for gale force winds in Johnstone Strait. However, the route we’re taking through the Yuculta, Dent, Green Point and Whirlpool Rapids should offer us a lot of protection from those winds.
We left an hour early for Yuculta Rapids, twenty miles north of us, just to make sure we didn’t miss slack tide. Al turned off the engines near the entrance to Hole-in-the-Wall and we drifted for about 30 minutes, waiting for the current in Yuculta Rapids to lessen. Thirty minutes before slack, several boats started through Yuculta. The water looked fairly calm, so we decided to go for it too. Good call. We got through Yuculta Rapids, Gillard Passage and Dent Rapids easy as pie. We only had 12.5 miles before reaching Cordero Anchorage, near Green Point Raids, where we anchored for an early dinner, while waiting for the current to lessen at Green Point and Whirlpool Rapids.
Al whipped up a delicious spaghetti dinner, and we dined while watching the swirling waters of Green Point Rapids from our protected anchorage.
About an hour before slack, the current didn’t look that bad, so we decided to head for Forward Harbour, where we would anchor for the night. The current wasn’t that bad, but the wind had really picked up. Just before we got to Whirlpool Rapids, we were seeing 50 knot gusts! Luckily, at that point, we only had about 3 miles to go before we reached the sheltered waters of Forward Harbour.
Summer Cruise Aboard "Jubilacion" 2017 