Anonymous wrote:
As she looked in October 2013, when I saw her in Deep Bay marina, Vancouver Island on my way south from Alaska:
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Thank you so much. Wonderful to be able to take pictures from a dock. I saw China Cloud around the same time (within a year or so) in the Comox Harbour dried out, so the last picture you show is about what I could see. The mud made it impossible to get very close and being dried out, I was looking up at it anyway. I do remember thinking the outboard motor looked huge in the small space where it is hung but it looks smaller from above. Your pictures show more than in the book, or perhaps the perspective shows things in better context. The book is more about the people even though it includes the lines for the boat. Lots of hatches/companionways. Masts are in tabernacles, though I would guess they are not lowered often, at least with the new owners. The decks are much flatter that the great smile of the sheer line. The fore and aft having bulwarks and the mid deck being almost flush. Something that should be "of course" but seeing gives a different context.
Deep Bay is a wonderful and well protected place. Crowded and rafting up is the norm. There is anchor space but it is outside the "no wake" zone and (at least in the 24ft boat we were in) very uncomfortable as all the power boats go full throttle right past it. The shallow part outside the spit goes out a long way, the charts and channel markers are correct.
Fanny Bay (just North) is a good place to avoid at least for anchoring and even more crowded at the dock. (good crabbing though) But the dock master is really nice and gave us a free for the night mooring when he felt we should not go out due to weather. Tidal currents are 180 degrees and danforth type anchors don't do well.