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Maya and Aladino sail Magic Carpet deep into Quatsino Sound on Vancouver Island's north-west coast, diverting from their southbound west-coast passage to wait out 50-knot north-westerly winds howling around Brooks Peninsula.▶ 2:57 They motor six nautical miles up Holberg Inlet to Holberg, a small logging town at the end of a dirt road, to visit the Scarlet Ibis — described as Vancouver Island's most remote pub.▶ 1:52 Anchoring off the estuary mouth rather than the unmarked community dock, they dinghy ashore; Navionics showed no depth data for the dock, so they anchored for safety.▶ 4:19 The detour also marks a milestone: roughly 1,000 nautical miles sailed as the crow flies since the voyage began.▶ 5:12 On the return, they time Quatsino Narrows at slack tide and stop at Coal Harbor, site of Canada's last commercial whaling station, which operated 1948–1967 and killed an estimated 10,000 whales; a 92-foot blue whale jawbone remains on display.▶ 10:10 They anchor at Julian Cove, then Gooding Cove, before setting out on a 40-nautical-mile rounding of Brooks Peninsula — a reef-strewn headland compared in cruising guides to Cape Horn — choosing a calm weather window.▶ 16:01 The Brooks Peninsula rounding itself is deferred to the next episode.▶ 18:04

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