Its all about timing your departure to get the best out of the currents.
Thanks, Kevin!
My current "plan" (that's probably overstating the degree to which I've settled on it) is to get out PT by 0600 on 5-July. (slack at Pt. Wilson is 0631... maybe I should leave at 0430 to get the last two hours of ebb? Hmmm)
That should get me across the Strait through an easterly set but no real on-the-nose current (the 0800 current chart looks like this):
With luck I'll be near Cattle Point by 10am, and then have a decision to make - head up inside the San Juans (San Juan Channel)... which has sorta random currents along the way but could lead to some favorable current in Spieden Channel, or... see if I can find the counter-current along the west side of San Juan Island which, over the next couple of hours, looks like it could flush me more or less toward Sidney. The noon chart looks like this:
the current will turn and start pushing you up past San Juan Is.
Yeah, unless I'm misreading my current atlas, I'm not seeing a favorable push northbound in Haro until late in the day.
The 7pm current chart looks really great past Victoria... but I'd kinda like to get into Sidney earlier than that in order to clear CBSA and all.
If you happen to be in Roche Harbor the nights of July 13 or 14 look me up.
I'd love that! But need to be on an airplane for work on the 15th, so current plan is to be back in Everett by the 13th.
Bruce