Learn to Cruise the Inside Passage of BC on the David B1
We signed up for the Learn to Cruise trip on the David B over a year ago. https://northwestnavigation.com/faq/ The southbound cruise starts at Ketchikan, AK, explores down the Inside Passage of British Columbia and ends 12 days later at Bellingham, WA. Only two other guys were on the 65 foot restored 1929 boat along with the instructor captain, his wife, and two crew in training, which meant four crew for four PAX, a very favorable ratio for learning. We hoped to get familiar and comfortable with the unique boating conditions of the PNW such as large vertical tide changes, deep water anchoring, running inlets with rapids at slack tides, navigation challenges, dealing with logs and deadheads etc. that are new to us. If we decide we want to trailer our C-Dory Tom Cat 255 from our home in Pensacola to repeat this adventure on our own boat, we'll know way better what to expect. Although we have been cruising together for over 40 years in 13 trailer boats and completed half t