Got a brief text message from Jeff today (May 12) at 4.40 pm. They are in French Creek, which is between Qualicum Beach and Parksville on the east coast of Vancouver Island (see map). They have been paddling north along the Strait of Georgia, and as expected have been fighting a headwind which has slowed progress. Today they experienced strong NW winds, which were forecast to ease off later, so they planned to continue north towards Courteney later and hopefully reach Campbell River tomorrow (Ambitious schedule! They must still be feeling good!). The forecast is for winds northwest 20 to 25 knots easing to variable 5 to 15 Sunday morning, with an outlook of light to moderate variable winds, so they should see a significant improvement over what they have had. -- Jon
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Strong Headwinds
Got a brief text message from Jeff today (May 12) at 4.40 pm. They are in French Creek, which is between Qualicum Beach and Parksville on the east coast of Vancouver Island (see map). They have been paddling north along the Strait of Georgia, and as expected have been fighting a headwind which has slowed progress. Today they experienced strong NW winds, which were forecast to ease off later, so they planned to continue north towards Courteney later and hopefully reach Campbell River tomorrow (Ambitious schedule! They must still be feeling good!). The forecast is for winds northwest 20 to 25 knots easing to variable 5 to 15 Sunday morning, with an outlook of light to moderate variable winds, so they should see a significant improvement over what they have had. -- Jon
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Tuning in from the far north in Sweden - very pysched to follow the progress in the next several days. Thanks for the Sat. phone communications ! If you get a chance, can you estimate the distances they are paddling ? It seems on their second day they put down some serious miles against the wind ?!
Paddle hard !
scott
I've been looking forward to following progress of this trip but I have no idea where these places are and how far apart they are doing, please can you give us some idea of distances travelled and where they are geographically so we can understand their progress. Thanks a lot,
Justine
ok, I take it back, sorry. now I look a bit closer I see there are new dots on the map which are great!
Thanks,
Justine
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