Shearwater Resort, BC

 

Captain Karen driving from Fancy Cove to Shearwater this morning.   She's pretty perky, but then it is 1100 (11:00am)!

The view from Shearwater Resort Restaurant's deck.   We are tied up in front of the big Leopard catamaran.


Local services include nice docks, a real marine Travelift & yard, marine/hardware store, fuel dock, helipad, grocery store, restaurant, recycling center, a few other stores, and the resort lodge itself.
We arrived in Shearwater about 1330 (1:30pm) and headed up to lunch at the bar/cafe/restaurant.  They make a pretty decent cheeseburger here.
This is a Life Proof Boat.   Not sure how you would classify it, but I'll call it a glorified luxury expedition RIB.  It is an excellent boat and extremely well built and supposedly unsinkable (but let's not find out).  Our government buys a lot of these for our armed services, though they probably are a bit more spartan in decor and more heavily armed.

This is the opposite end of the boating spectrum from our trawler.   Our boat goes very slowly, but is very comfortable, and goes for long distances (4,000 miles/tank).   The expedition rib boats are extremely fast (60 knots), but they don't go that far on a tank of gas (800 miles?).

Yet, here we all are.   So, the type of boat doesn't really matter.   More broadly, don't wait for perfect, just get out there and embrace your own adventure.

This is Larry & Jamie, along with us.  They are the owners of their Life Proof Boat named "Independence 2".   Their prior boat was a Nordhavn Coastal Pilot 59 (similar to our trawler, but faster).

We had a delightful appy-hour with them aboard Blue Redd.   Nice people out for a grand adventure.   I hope to see them in Glacier Bay in 3 weeks or so.
An astute reader (thanks for asking!) asked about the bulbous bow on Blue Redd (see picture).  Theoretically, a bulbous bow is supposed to make the boat a wee bit more efficient through the water and reduce pitching.

I can't say whether this is working for us or not as I can't compare it to our boat without it.   (Well, I don't want to sign up for the expense of removing it for the sake of experimentation).

I think to be effective in reducing pitching (aka hobby-horsing), the bulb would have to be 18" longer and about 12" larger in diameter with a flatter topside.   This would produce more resistance coming up out of the water.  That should slow down the pitching and have the net effect of reducing it.  I'm not a naval architect so I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than that, but you get the idea.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program...
Yeah...   This works.

Goodnight.



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