Much Ado About Fuel

We're in Quait Bay tonight, ten miles out of Tofino and the last stop for Doug and Diana before we send them off in Tofino tomorrow.

Diana is eager to be away and will fly. Doug has bus and ferry travel to look forward to. Mick and I wish them safe travel as they make their way home.

I was originally planning to spend two nights in Tofino, but the price of moorage seemed steep, so I opted to reserve just one night. Now it turns out high tide isn't until 4 pm. I bumped the bottom last time I was here at low tide, so we want to be careful with that, perhaps check-in to the marina at above mid-tide (after 1pm). That impacts longer term planning of course. Arriving later in the day, say, doesn't leave a lot of time in the day for scrubbing the boat, emptying the garbage, taking a shower, eating dinner, provisioning, doing laundry, filling water and fuel tanks, etc... Had high tide come earlier in the day, we could have made it work with just one night. As things are, It'll take us two nights to get every thing done. I'd better let them know and change the res.

Another solitary anchorage. I'm doing dinner tonight, bean soup and bbq sausages. Our last dinner before reprovisioning.

We've mostly done a good job managing our resources. We have about 15 gallons of water out of the 110 we left Port Hardy with. We have about 33 gallons of fuel remaining out of 90 refilled in Campbell River.

I'd like to refuel in Port Angeles because the diesel is about half the price of fuel in BC, according to an informal Google survey.

I really don't want to run out of fuel trying to get to PA. How confident am I that I'll make it? My calculations tell me I have just enough fuel to make it back to Seattle. So Port Angeles ought'a be a slam dunk. But I wonder... am I using a good burn rate? Will I have to motor hard against current?

The obvious solution is to put a little fuel in at Tofino, So I have enough for comfort, but save the bulk of the purchase for when I get back to Seattle. We'll see how the fuel dock looks when we get there tomorrow.

Showers tomorrow!