Description
What:
A SISKA Energizer paddle from Maple Bay Rowing Club to Burgoyne Bay
Skill Level:
This paddle is rated as an Energizer Paddle because of its distance and open water crossings and possible current. To understand this designation better, please read SISKA's Paddle Guidelines
Paddlers taking part in this paddle are required to have PC Level 1 or equivalent experience. For information about PC Levels click here.
The total distance of this paddle is estimated to be approximately 11.20nm.
When:
Sunday, June 01st, 2025. Meet at the launchsite by 09:30am to be on the water by 10:00am
Where:
We will launch at Maple Bay Rowing Club. Need directions to the launchsite? Click here.
Who:
This paddle will be led by Dave Chater For more information about this paddle email Dave Chater
Details:
Our leader will introduce the Plan and make sure everyone is comfortable with the requirements and any concerns that you may have. Please stay off the water until we are all ready. The leader may choose to enlist helpers and establish communications protocol. If you have VHF radio please bring it with you.
Plan A:
We will leave the launching point at the Maple Bay Rowing Club and public boat ramp and head over the mouth of Maple Bay to the shoreline leading to Octopus Pt. After Octopus Pt, we will noodle past the cliffs along Sansum Narrows. At Sansum Pt, we will cross over the narrows to Bold Bluff Pt on Salt Spring Island. We will then do more noodling along the south shoreline in Burgoyne Bay and then have lunch at the head of the bay. After lunch we can then noodle along the shoreline under Mt Maxwell leading to Maxwell Pt. The entirety of Burgoyne Bay is a provincial protected area (including Mt Maxwell Provincial Park. It really feels like you are a remote and natural setting, but yet only a few miles away from civilization. Our final destination is crossing over the channel to Arbutus Pt- at the mouth of Maple Bay, before reaching the boat ramp.
Plan B:
We can minimize the crossings (if too windy) by staying close to the shoreline along Sansum Narrows to some small pocket beaches near Grouse Hill in the narrows.
Plot:
To view a plot for this paddle click here
Registration:
To sign up for this paddle please email Dave Chater
The maximum number of paddlers for this paddle has been set to 11. There is room for 1 paddler(s).
Note: Preregistration of any SISKA paddle is mandatory and any required waiver(s) must be completed prior to the day of the paddle. The paddle leader will turn away any paddler, member or non member, that is not already on the paddle manifest with a signed electronic waiver on file
Note:
Always dress for the possibility of immersion and please bring a drybag containing a spare change of clothes.
Please bring a lunch / snacks and sufficient beverage to keep you hydrated, as well as a themos of something warm.
All participants are expected to have read, and to comply with SISKA's Policies and Procedures
SISKA strongly encourages members to follow the latest provincial guidance regarding Covid-19. The latest BC guidance can be
found at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/proof.
A SISKA Energizer paddle from Maple Bay Rowing Club to Burgoyne Bay
Skill Level:
This paddle is rated as an Energizer Paddle because of its distance and open water crossings and possible current. To understand this designation better, please read SISKA's Paddle Guidelines
Paddlers taking part in this paddle are required to have PC Level 1 or equivalent experience. For information about PC Levels click here.
The total distance of this paddle is estimated to be approximately 11.20nm.
When:
Sunday, June 01st, 2025. Meet at the launchsite by 09:30am to be on the water by 10:00am
Where:
We will launch at Maple Bay Rowing Club. Need directions to the launchsite? Click here.
Who:
This paddle will be led by Dave Chater For more information about this paddle email Dave Chater
Details:
Our leader will introduce the Plan and make sure everyone is comfortable with the requirements and any concerns that you may have. Please stay off the water until we are all ready. The leader may choose to enlist helpers and establish communications protocol. If you have VHF radio please bring it with you.
Plan A:
We will leave the launching point at the Maple Bay Rowing Club and public boat ramp and head over the mouth of Maple Bay to the shoreline leading to Octopus Pt. After Octopus Pt, we will noodle past the cliffs along Sansum Narrows. At Sansum Pt, we will cross over the narrows to Bold Bluff Pt on Salt Spring Island. We will then do more noodling along the south shoreline in Burgoyne Bay and then have lunch at the head of the bay. After lunch we can then noodle along the shoreline under Mt Maxwell leading to Maxwell Pt. The entirety of Burgoyne Bay is a provincial protected area (including Mt Maxwell Provincial Park. It really feels like you are a remote and natural setting, but yet only a few miles away from civilization. Our final destination is crossing over the channel to Arbutus Pt- at the mouth of Maple Bay, before reaching the boat ramp.
Plan B:
We can minimize the crossings (if too windy) by staying close to the shoreline along Sansum Narrows to some small pocket beaches near Grouse Hill in the narrows.
Plot:
To view a plot for this paddle click here
Registration:
To sign up for this paddle please email Dave Chater
The maximum number of paddlers for this paddle has been set to 11. There is room for 1 paddler(s).
Note: Preregistration of any SISKA paddle is mandatory and any required waiver(s) must be completed prior to the day of the paddle. The paddle leader will turn away any paddler, member or non member, that is not already on the paddle manifest with a signed electronic waiver on file
Note:
Always dress for the possibility of immersion and please bring a drybag containing a spare change of clothes.
Please bring a lunch / snacks and sufficient beverage to keep you hydrated, as well as a themos of something warm.
All participants are expected to have read, and to comply with SISKA's Policies and Procedures
SISKA strongly encourages members to follow the latest provincial guidance regarding Covid-19. The latest BC guidance can be
found at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/proof.