While I was laying in bed this morning, I started thinking about the price of diesel. Probably should not have been worrying about the price of fuel for this trip, but brain had mind of its own. My mind decided it was foolish not to top off my tanks prior to leaving the cheap USA gas. If you call $6 plus is cheap. I knew my middle diesel tank could easily take 10 more gallons. I got up and dumped the content of 2 jerry cans into my mid tank.
I headed to the gas dock at 8 am with the two empty jerry
cans. The gas dock at Deer Harbor is
self-serve. I put my credit card into
the machine, and started pumping diesel.
I put in a little over 2 dollars and it shut off. It was then that I realized the gas dock
doesn’t open until 9 am.
I went back to the boat.
Took a hot shower, a luxury on a sailboat with a limited water
supply. But since I was at a marine, no
problem. After getting squeaky clean I
filled up the water tank. I then did the
two-tank shuffle once again. This time I
was successful in filling up my tanks.
With the water and gas all topped off we headed out. Next destination would be Van Isle Marina to
clear Canadian Customs. We motor sailed
across the border, into the marina and tied up to the customs dock. It was about 12:15 pm when we got there.
I jumped off with all our paperwork and called the customs
officer. They asked the usual questions,
like how much alcohol, any tobacco products, and how much money was I bringing
in. I answered those. Then they asked me how much “Fruit” I had on
board. To which I answered some
oranges. They asked again. I swear they said fruit again, so I said “I
have 5 oranges.” The custom lady asked
one more time a little differently, she asked “How much food do you have on
board?”. When I realized she wanted to
know about the food, I switched the phone to the ear I can hear out of and apologized
for being hard of hearing. I then rattled
off the food we had on board. She seemed
satisfied. But she did have one more
question.
Her question was “Did you fill out the ArriveCAN app?” My answer was yes I filled out the app and I provided
my passport and images of Heather and my vaccination cards. She then asked for the 6 digit ArriveCan app
number. I said I was not able to get
that because the app needed an address where I was staying. I told her my boat didn’t have a Canadian address
so I was not able to complete the app. She
said wait a minute. I was then put on
hold. After about 5 minutes she got back
on and said I needed to complete the app and get the 6-digit code before they
could give me my clearance number. I said fine and asked what address should I
use. She informed me to use the address
for the marina.
I then had to find the gas dock attendant to asked the
address of the marina. I then got online
and completed the app, and got the 6-digit code. When I called back to the custom people I
gave them my code, and bingo I got my clearance number. We started the motor and shoved off. We were now good to explore BC.
We motored out of the marina and headed north. Shortly after clearly a few of the islands close to the marina we started sailing. We sailed for 16 miles or so before the wind shut down. We motored the last few miles to our night’s destination, which was Clam on the east side of Penelakut and Thetis Islands . This is the same anchorage I stayed in when we headed to Alaska 4 years ago
Clam Bay 4 years ago
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