Well Saturday August 19 2023
Took a knee twist 2 months ago and got tennis elbow 4 weeks ago swinging the weedeater with a brush cutter. So my form thread needs an update soon, I've slacked off but I'm also finding easy distance due to injuries haha weird.
I posted this in rationally agreeable but had a fun morning so I thought id just copy and mark it here for next year..
So.... went fishing with a buddy on his boat wicked early today. He wanted to take a shortcut and he's the captain and I'm like whatever you think.
your boat.... we delayed for a 1/2hr while he worked a pound of m&ms out of his system, it probably made a mocha slurry after his first cup of coffee. Point is it gave us a little more daylight. As we are clipping through Navy channel he asks what the heading is to get to the far side of Saturday, (haha, ironic autocorrect) "Saturna" like which set of islands is it, I say something like:
"I'm not sure I always get mixed up on these ones, I've never done Boat Pass"
"Me neither" he says.
I reply
"Geez I was waiting until someone showed me the way on that one"..
F me at 6:30 am heading for a tide change in a boat I don't know haha, I just hoped it was as good as mine.
(Quirks excluded haha, but I'd take my double eagle against anything, hell we have haha.. as long as she's running, and not getting the transom re fibreglassed, which is why I don't have a boat)
So hitting some narrows with little Rock and reef land mines at a tide change... it's a good thing I took two poops before I left or I might have shit myself.
Asked if he had used Navionics.. the answer was no haha, fired up my phone and picked headings for him, dodged everything successfully and he made it safely to and through about a 35' gap of rushing water, safely into 10ft waves haha. Decided to fish an inside passage.. longer story long...
The m&ms took their toll and he decided to bail out the other way, his phone had been pinging "welcome to the USA" which means no cellular data for a pair of Canucks. He gets ready to punch it out between of the gap between Tumbo and I'm like hold on, let me just look.. I don't know this water at all, as we watch some weird rip in the water, waves crashing up... hmmmmmm.
A couple minutes later I grab some data (I shut down my chart earlier to save battery..). And we manage to avoid something called "Boiling Reef" hence the water disturbances haha... we went way tighter to shore than we probably would have but you have to trust the app, and calculate for the delay to positioning
No fish were caught, no gear was lost, call it a win.
I am not however giving him any money for gas.