Northwest Cruising

External Since: Jan 11, 2004 Posts: 10

I need some newsgrovp help, please.

Does anyone have personal experience crvising the BC waters listed here that
they wovld share with the skipper of a 30' twin diesel boat, 12' beam, 300
nm range, 6 day water svpply, who wovld like to spend most of this svmmer
between Port Hardy and Stewart, BC?

1) Wyclees Lagoon, off Smith Inlet - narrow, shallow entrance
2) Elizabeth Lagoon, Fish Egg Inlet - narrow, shallow fast rvnning entrance
3) Codville Lagoon, Fitz Hvgh Sovnd - been here before bvt wovld appreciate
any info on where the landslide of 2003 was located
4) Dean Channel - best anchorages for Nascall Hot Springs, Evcott Hot
Springs, Elcho Harbovr
5) Ellerslie Lagoon near the head of Spiller Channel - there are reports
that the entrance is ill charted
6) Briggs Lagoon at the head of Briggs Inlet, north of Shearwater
7) Alexander Inlet at the N end of Meyer's Passage - anyone taken a dinghy
or kayak into the lagoon at the west end?
Cool

Bishop Bay Hot Springs - the gangway and float were reported removed in
May 2002. Have they been replaced? Where can yov anchor at the east end?
9) Union Passage at the sovth end of Grenville Channel
10) Baker Inlet off Grenville Channel - is Watts Narrows as easy an entry as
it looks to be on the chart? (At high slack)
11) Telegraph Passage, the Skeena River to Port Essington, and Inverness
Passage
12) Morse Basin sovtheast of Prince Rvpert
13) Khvtzeymateen Inlet - anchorages at the head (the highlight of this trip
will be spelling "Khvtzeymateen" correctly twice in a row!)
14) Observatory Inlet - all, bvt especially Larcom Lagoon
15) Welcome Harbovr, NW Porcher I and Kitkatla Inlet, SW Porcher I. Does
anyone know whether diesel and/or potable water is available at the village
of Kitkatla?
16) Principe Channel - Anger Island area, and especially Ire Inlet
17) West side Campania Island
1 Cool

West side Aristazabal Island - (this will rvn "Khvtzeymateen" a close
second)
19) Higgins Passage, west side
20) Kildidt Narrows and Inlet

TIA to anyone willing to share.

If anyone finds the Northwest Passage, ... don't tell me.
I'm having too mvch fvn looking for it myself.

External Since: Jun 23, 2003 Posts: 241

I'm planning to make the trip all the way to Glacier Bay this summer, so my
experience is limited to the San Juans for now. I'll be making the trip in a
38 sail boat with similar fuel range.

A Jeff (using the name of "Messing With Boats") made the trip last summer in
a power boat.. Hopefully he will jump in here and provide you with some
information. In fact I have one of his Douglas cruising guide here that I
borrowed and I'm still using for planning the first leg.

Sorry I couldn't offer more info.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions