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Old 04-09-2015, 02:34 PM   #34
Marin
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Originally Posted by BDofMSP View Post

I think my fixation on it is driven by the fact that it's an experience that i'm not going to encounter here in fresh water. While I wouldn't dream of doing it in bad weather, there is definitely something intriguing about the idea of engaging swells, currents, ferries, logs, whales, etc. Perhaps it's just a romantic dream and the reality is quite less engaging.
Some of the Great Lakes are pretty darn big. I've crossed from Copper Harbor to Isle Royale and that was a haul and a half.

Not really any swells on Georgia Strait, at least not in the ocean sense. It's all just wind waves, although these can get very big very fast when the wind kicks up. In this respect it's like a big lake. Flat one minute and rolling the crap out of you the next.

I think Spy's post is well worth thinking about. He lives in Powell River and so is probably more intimately knowledgeable about the whole Georgia Strait basin than most of the rest of us on this forum.
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