Sea Trial is a work of non-fiction that spans many decades, fields, and locations. There is ample opportunity for errors of fact or usage; where these are found to occur, they are my own.
Some people’s names have been changed, the criterion being whether I felt there was any risk, no matter how small, that someone might not be completely happy with being identified. Spelling of First Nations place names follows usage on official band council websites current at time of writing. Other place names are spelled as they appear on the Canadian Hydrographic Service marine charts for the area.
Water depths are expressed in feet rather than metres or the seldom-used fathoms. Speed through the water follows the universally accepted convention of knots (nautical miles per hour); the same goes for wind speed. One nautical mile is 1.85 kilometres.