As I am sitting in the cockpit of our Sailboat Salient, docked in Lund and watching over the ocean I think back on the many adventures of exploring Desolation Sound and its surrounding waters during ...

Captain George Vancouver came to mind recently as I was sitting in the cockpit of our sailboat, Celeste, anchored in Prideaux Haven. Vancouver and his men explored the waters in and around Desolation ...

It was an intense storm that scuttled my first attempt to sail the Desolation Sound area roughly 25 years ago. Because the northern end of the Gulf Islands is a 100-mile, three-day sail from Vancouver ...

We were cruising through one of Desolation Sound’s towering fjords when the wind hit 35 knots. This type of a headwind is to be expected in this part of British Columbia, and it made me glad that I ...