Sailing with Vancouver. A modern sea dog, antique charts and a voyage through time
by McKinney, Sam - 1927-
pub by Touchwood Editions, Victoria, BC Canada, 2008 reprinted 2018 -       - isbn 978-1-77151-264-0 - - Canadian CCN 2018-901409 - - Acknoledgements p. xv - - contents p. xvii - - Maps p. ix - xiii - - Bibliography p. 187-1960 - - 191 pages.

This book begins with the purchase of a boat - a Vertue class 25 ft sloop - to follow the Vancouver expeditions track. Then the narrative follows the track of the Vancouver expedition and many of the side trips made in the smaller boats which are so necessary when doing widespread mapping.
Chapters -
I. Rendevous with History - How and why the Vancouver Expedition was sent - background
II. Two Voyages of Discovery - Vancouvers voyage (in the area April 1792-November 1792) and the authors trip following the route
III. A Man and his Boat - Sam McKinney buys a very nice and capable small wooden boat
IV. Mediterranean of the North - The area protected from the open Pacific Ocean by the peninsula of western Washington State and
            Vancouver Island - (not in the book but this area now often called the Salish Sea.)
V. The Strait of Juan de Fuca - The entrance from the Pacific Ocean. Named for the man who identified it for what it was.
VI. Cape Flattery and Foulweather Bluff - the Cape is the NW tip of the Olympic Peninsula to the Bluff which is at the northern end of that long peninsula. west of the southern part of Whidby Island
VII. The San Juan Islands - East and a little south of the Gulf Islands
VIII. Pugets Sound - following a rowing crew under Officer Puget surveying South from the San Juan Is.
IX. Possession Sound - East of Whidby Island between it and the mainland where Everett, Washington is now.
X. The Gulf Islands - Those islands just east of Victoria on Vancouver Island.
XI. Through the Strait of Georgia - The body of water east of the southern half of Vancouver Island.
XII. North from Desolation Sound - North from a body of water East of the Strait of Georgia.
XIII. Through the Labyrinth - Winding through a number of islands between Vancouver Is and Canada.
XIV. Discovery Passage - Adjacent to Vancouver Island between the Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Strait which bounds the NE of Vancouver Island.
XV. The Broughton Archipelago - Islands SE of the Strait of Georgia probably incling what is now called Gilford Island.
XVI. Deep Sea Bluff - A point of land on the mainland east of the southern part of Queen Charlotte Strait, and where the land plunges from a height to sea level and a thousand feet straight down below sea level.
XVII. To Cape Caution - The mainland point of land north of the northern end of Vancouver Island and at the northern end of Queen Charlotte Strait.
XVII. My Invisible Crew - Giving credit to others who went before in sailing experience and techology.
XVIII. Beyond Cape Caution - did not follow North of across the Queen Charlotte Straight, north of the end of Vancouver Island. The expedition only went a few miles that direction.
Afterword. Place Names in History - How and for whom places got their names in this area. p. 169-186

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