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From: Shawn W. Baker <baker_at_montana.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Canadian Current Atlas (was: San Juan Islands trip report)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:04:14 -0600
Mike wrote:

>I've never made much use of the San Juan Current Guide (correct title?).
The Canadian Current Atlas for the Strait of Georgia and the S. of JdeF
is
what I've used.  Does anyone have any experience with the accuracy of
the
predictions for the channels inside the group?

We used the Canadian Current Atlas and Washburne's tables on a recent
trip from Anacortes, north around Guemes, across Bellingham Channel to
Cypress (Pelican Beach) around the north end of Cypress, back across to
Lummi/Eliza, and across Bellingham Bay to Chuckanut.  It was very
accurate except for the Bellingham Bay prediction.  We should have had a
somewhat counter-clockwise current, and instead, it was rotating
clockwise in Bellingham Bay, setting us a lot further south than was
predicted.

Shawn
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