Klemtu and Butedale

After Sharon left our plan was to head north and take a trip up the Gardner Canal.

First we headed back to Klemtu. We spent the night at Clothes Bay again and went to the dock at Klemtu and got a couple of grocery items we could get in Bella Bella. We also filled the water tanks.

When we were anchored up in Clothes Bay a sailboat that was on the dock in Shearwater came and anchored up really close to us. It’s a very large anchorage. I don’t know why they were so close. We were a little worried we might pull into them as we were pulling up the anchor in the morning but fortunately we did not.

Our next stop was Butedale. There is a dock there and it is the site of an old cannery. The old docks have been removed and a stretch of nice new docks have been installed. It is not a marina and there is no caretaker or anyone on site. We found an email address contact to ask permission to stay at the dock. We received a quick reply and permission to stay at the dock at our own risk. He asked us to send a photo of Phoenix Hunter at the dock.

There was another boat that came in just before us and helped us dock.

The last time we were there was 2017 on our way south from Prince Rupert.

We left Butedale early in the morning and headed up to Kitsaway

We anchored up in Kitasway in 2017. We thought it was a nice anchorage. There were a lot of little weekend boats down from Kitimat in 2017. Fishing and crabbing.

When we got there this year it was completely empty and blowing a gale. We drove around for a bit trying to find the least windy spot we could anchor. At one point it was blowing 30 knots in there !

We finally decide to just drop the anchor in a 20 knot wind and buckle down for the night. We knew the anchor would hold. I didn’t take a single photo.

We have discovered that there is a leak in part of the hot water pipe that leads out of the hot water tank. So — a little bit a discussion as to what to do.

Water from the hot water tank is shut off. We do not want to go to Kitimat!!

So we are managing it by just turning the hot water on for the few minutes we need hot water. Which isn’t that often. We will sort it out when we get home – or back to Port McNeill.

It’s a small little brass elbow. $20 at Home Depot.