Sidney to Nanaimo, 5 hours, 45 miles

We walked up to Starbucks for a latte before leaving. We are not in a big hurry to leave because we are only heading over to Bedwell Harbour.  We got off the dock at 11:05 am.  The weather is partly sunny, less than 5 kts wind and the sea rippled.  Just perfect!  Since we are in a bit of a hurry to get to Alaska so we then decided to pass Bedwell Harbour and go to Montague Harbour.  As we reached Montague I check the slack time at Dodd Narrows and the next slack is at 3:40 pm today.  Since we are traveling at about 9 kts, we are going to go through the Narrows and spend the night instead anchored in Mark Bay, Nanaimo.