Well as many of you know, we are back in home port at Spruce Harbour. The last few weeks of our journey took a few unexpected turns – albeit fabulous ones! But the end result is we are home a bit sooner than originally planned. We had planned to be home around Sept 1 but we docked on August 26th
Our next grandchild was due on Sept 11th and the Admiral aka labour coach needed to be close by and on call for the big event. Little did we know that the “call” would come at 11:30 am August 19th while playing with grandchild number 1 on a beach in Comox!
Labor snuck up on my daughter 3 ½ weeks early. Thanks to a very helpful agent at Harbour Air, this resulted in a mad dash from Comox to Nanaimo to catch a float plane to Vancouver.. yes yet another float plane for the Admiral and no frequent flyer points either!! Brian treated the island highway like an Indy speedway and got me there with 5 mins to spare! The flight was followed by a quick cab ride to the marina to get the car to drive to White Rock. I jumped in and turned the key only to be greeted by the sound of silence.. and people I am not talking Paul Simon!! DEAD BATTERY! The air was a bit blue at that point but thanks to a kind fellow boater in the marina I soon had enough charge to get going. I managed to make it to the labour room by 4:30 pm with sand in my shoes still from the beach! Austen Kent Scott was born at 9:20pm that night and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
Of course during all this blissful baby cuddling, my Captain, Dezi and Cariba were cooling their heels in Comox. It was very smoky with crappy visibility and I wanted to be there to help bring the boat home. Another flight on a float plane and the next morning we set out for home.
The smoke had finally cleared and we were so looking forward to a nice sail home with predicted NW winds 15-20 knots according to Environment Canada… well they lied again! It started out with no wind and then SE 15+ knots! We had talked about if the NW had held and with a clear night and a full moon, we might have gone for an overnight passage home. Instead we anchored overnight in Water Bay on Thormanby Island and completed the journey home again the next day with the forecasted winds still MIA.
Since home we have been busy transitioning the boat to liveaboard dock style. We have made a list of chores we want to get done before the fall rains begins. We had an awesome summer and can’t wait to see what happens next summer. Until then.. it is boat projects, baby showers, catching up with family and friends.. and yes we did get to babysit Austen already!!
SV Cariba chillin dockside!
SV Cariba 