Sailing with Vancouver: A modern sea dog, antique charts and a voyage through time

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Could I’ve been certainly one of them?” That was once what Sam McKinney wondered as he retraced, by myself, the explorations of Captain George Vancouver and his men from Puget Sound to Queen Charlotte Sound. In the 1790s, they rowed for long hours each day, camping on rocky beaches in all weathers and charting the intricate coastline for the first time. Two hundred years later, McKinney followed them in his 25-foot sailboat, anchoring where they did, meeting the same winds and waves, and sharing “the link of vulnerability that may be the ever-present condition of all individuals who go to sea.” Describing the two voyages, McKinney offers insightful comparisons of what sailors saw and experienced, in the 18th century and these days, around the Inland Sea. On the end of his shuttle he, like Vancouver, claimed the area he had explored, “not by deed of ownership but out of love for the place, its staggering beauty . [and] the memories of the people and cultures who have found homes along its shores.

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