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There she was: our new home for the next 6 days. The Ocean Pearl is a Byliner 3888 with twin 175 HP Hino diesels, a LOA of 42 feet and a beam of 13.5 ft. By the numbers she isn’t much bigger than the Sante but man oh man she looks huge.<\/p>\n

First things first we shower up and start packing. Around 9:30 we start moving our gear over and are just amazed and the differences between the two boats. Its like going from a high tech tent trailer to one of those monster busses: everything is just bigger and splashier.<\/p>\n

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L’s parents show up arond 11 to pick us up and we end up heading to\u00a0BP’s for breakfast\/early lunch. I looks like we have lots of time so we end up deciding to head down to\u00a0Chemainus for a bit of a walkabout. I’d only ever been there on the rainy night of my birthday so it was nice to see in the daylight.<\/p>\n

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Afterwards we piled back into the van and headed to Coombs. Leslie’s maternal family mostly ended up on the island so every year they get together for golf\/mini golf and a barbeque, this year it was at Len’s place. Really nice people. We got there a bit late but it was all good. I was really a bit stuffed after eating again though: maybe that will save me some money on the rest of the trip?<\/p>\n

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We also found out that Leslie’s parents had bought an old 70s era trailer and were fixing it up for Stephen. He should be moving in soon. It sounded a awful lot like the place Doug got. Coincidence?<\/p>\n

Back in the van we headed to Nanaimo. We said our good byes and walked down the wharf to the new boat. C wasn’t in attendance so we decided to go see if we could find her at the restaurant or pub. Walking up the dock I could see her bun across the water and told Leslie she was eating onthe patio of the Beefeater. She was just enjoying a cafe Latte through a straw when we walked up. She’d just finished a magnificent bowl of bouillabaisse and soon talked Leslie into trying it. I settled for a glass of Pinot blanc.<\/p>\n

It was still early enough so we loaded up the car and headed for some groceries! By the time we got back were were \u00a0supplied for a week long orgy of booze and meat; it was awesome. Anyway, we stowed the supplies and hit the sack as Ian was coming in the morning to give us the official boat tour.<\/p>\n

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  There she was: our new home for the next 6 days. The Ocean Pearl is a Byliner 3888 with twin 175 HP Hino diesels, a LOA of 42 feet and a beam of 13.5 ft. By the numbers she isn’t much bigger than the Sante but man oh man she looks huge. First things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[90,42],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}