A low-slung fishing lodge turned resort on the point between Discovery Passage and Gowlland Harbour, with the marina immediately below the rooms and guest houses. The per-foot rate includes shore power at every amperage, which quietly makes it one of the better-value hotel-front docks in the Discovery Islands. Seasonal — the daily moorage rate runs May through September.

The gateway stop for Desolation Sound, and one of the few places on the coast where the dock, the restaurant and the bed are the same address. Eighteen hundred feet of protected moorage for boats to 250 feet, gas and diesel on the dock, and accommodation running from lodge rooms and a harbour house to cottages and geodesic domes above the water. Rates step down hard outside July and August.

A 1912 island pub-and-inn with its own docks, and the rare operator that writes the boater’s discount straight into the rate card. Rooms, cabins and suites ashore; diesel, marine fuel and propane on the dock; showers and laundry for anyone who has been anchored out in Desolation Sound for a week. Power is limited to 15 amp, so plan around it.