We originally intended to spend the night in a small cove near the entrance to Cordova Bay near the south end of Prince of Wales Island. However, the seas looked good as we arrived so we pressed on further to the very southern tip of the island into Nichols Bay.
Nichols Bay is adjacent to Cape Chacon, our departure point tomorrow for the crossing of Dixon Entrance. On the charts there is a shortcut into Nichols Bay called the Bert Millar cutoff. I looked more closely into this shortcut and found that there was about 18 feet of opening between two rock walls with some current running. Since our beam is 14 1/2 feet we quickly reached a decision to go the long way around. As you may guess, the first mate thought the skipper was a nut bar for even looking at this passage, oh well.
We spent a peaceful night in Nichols Bay with a number of sailboats and listened to radio weather updates which were all predicting good conditions for our open ocean crossing. We set our clocks ahead an hour to pacific time and generally got all set to sing Oh Canada the next day as we crossed the international border.
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