We are back-tracking a bit here, but not a problem.

Very very very smoky this morning! Ash was falling on the boat.

And our short 1 hour motor here was rough! 25 knots at our beam. We went straight to fuel dock, we had 1/3 tank.

After fuel dock we went to our slip.

Docking at Comox Valley Marina was one of the hardest we’ve done to date. Super sharp ‘S-curves’ and we were in about 25+ knots of wind. We had never been there before and it is also a very shallow marina. All of this combined just makes things extra challenging.

We had problems with someone trying to ‘help’ us dock, but I’m not going to get into that here. We would have been better off without his help.

At end of day… We are fine. The bow only kissed the dock, and the hull only drifted into the dock and it’s fine. Woof.

Thick wildfire smoke obscuring visibility as SV Yahara motors toward Comox with another boat in the haze

Close-up of wildfire ash particles settled on the white sail cover of SV Yahara

Rough seas and heavy spray along the deck of SV Yahara in 25-knot winds and smoky skies heading to Comox

Brian in a life jacket fueling up SV Yahara at the Comox Valley Marina fuel dock on a smoky overcast day