My wife and I are touring around Puget Sound (Pacific NW - Washington State) on our boat. Yesterday we transitted Deception Pass - an interesting exercise in a boat that will only do six knots against a tidal flow that can hit 7+ knots. However, us yachties know that we should wait for slack water (the short period where the current direction changes from flood to ebb and/or vice-versa). We did this transit at approximately 11AM during the "turn to flood" ie: the direction of the current was reversing and going the way we wanted to go. To answer the inevitable question - No, we do not try to r