Haida Gwaii Haanas

Alaskan Sea-Duction · Jan 20, 2018

Nomad Willy said:
Cape Caution?
You mean Queen Charlotte Sound of course.
A LOT different.
FAR more exposure. Look at some charts. Lots of Hecate Strait is very shallow. Especially in the NE quarter. I've heard horrible stories about that part of Hacate Strait. Lots and lots of fetch.

To compare it to crossing Queen Charlotte Sound is apples and huckleberries.

Sure if you approach from the south. I was thinking crossing from Prince Rupert which would put you in the lee side of westerly swells. But in full disclosure, I have not yet been there.

Nomad Willy · Jan 20, 2018

ASD,
I went from Masset to PR in an open OB that I designed and built. It was a shop project at the HS. Was a nice day and I gave Rose Spit 5 miles of clearence. Even then there were big swirls of water. Lots of water out there. Didn’t go over any Hecate Strait shallow water.

From PR it’s a very long way till you would get behind Rose Spit avoiding some NNW summer winds. And getting close the the east side of Graham Is, look at the charts and see how far out the shallows go.

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