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Article: Tales of the inside passage. (excerpts from 'Journeys Through the Inside Passage')
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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Hecate Strait
The outside passage up this part of the coast is Hecate Strait. For the most part, the strait is deep, but at its northern end it shallows to 60' in many places.
This is where our new steel crab boat, which had looked so invincible tied to the dock in Seattle, almost came to grief.
It was early March 1971. As we traveled up Hecate Strait, a sourtherly gale was building, but it was behind us, and we traveled easily.
I was in the pilothouse; the skipper's brother was on watch. Snow came with the storm, and visibility was down to a few hundred yards. He pored over the chart as he spoke of years in the Canadian trawl ...