Sailing Vessel Karma

Having heard of Teakearn Arm’s apparent awesomeness from SV Walkabout, we set it on our chartplotter for the day’s itinary to scope it out. We were thinking, due to the depth of the anchorage and our manual windlass, that we wouldn’t be spending the night or maybe even departing the boat once there.

With a classic noserlie on our nose, we motored up after having a bit of a strange start with our Yanmar that morning. The starter, while it worked, seemed to crank at about half of its normal speed thus taking longer to start than normal. We chocked it up to probably a wiring corrosion issue and set off, keeping it in the back of our minds for something to look into by Campbell river where spares and chandleries are abundent.

Turning the corner into the arm, it was a huge beautiful fjord like entrance with still over 1000 feet of water beneath us. Approaching where the dinghy dock was, I got into the dinghy along side Karma and set off ahead to check it out. As there was no one anchored nor at the dock, we decided to pull Karma up to the dinghy dock for our quick walk up to the waterfall.

In our semi precarious state and not wanting to miss the tide, we spent about 40 minutes there overall, walking up to the top of the huge waterfall, sitting on one of the surrounding completely vertical cliffs. It’s surprising how loud these big waterfalls are, but also how quickly, once you’re in the trees, the sound fades away. we walked back down the trail, taking a quick look at the little lake up on the top of the cliff which feeds the waterfall, and made our escape from the dinghy dock.

Once around the corner the wind filled in and we were on a reach down towards Georgia Bay. Just around the corner from Sarah Point, this anchorage offers a short trail up to a fresh water lake and good all round protection and solid depths. Sailing across the straight we entered the channel which leads down through lots of small coves with private homes and cabins perched amongst the trees and nature.

The next few days were more classic Canadian Desolation Sound wilderness with short but scruffy walks to cute lakes in the perfect warm breeze temperatures.

We bushwhacked from our way from our anchorage up to a wonderful trail which went to the tip of Sarah Point. It was quite the view and nice to see the entrance to Desolation Sound from the actual point’s perspective. The warm waters and clear day called for a skinny dip, no pictures for that but stay tuned as we head west to stage for the next big push north!