In all the years that I have crossed Georgia Straits never has Whisky Golf been closed to marine traffic. So this year it never entered my mind to even check. As we started to get closer to the area, a small boat off in the distance started coming our way, and I could see a larger ship way off in the distance. I checked my chart and could not see the boundaries for the range, so kept going while keeping my eye on that small boat coming my way. When it got close enough I could see it was a military boat, I'm thinking something is not right. I turned around and the patrol boat stopped.
All this time I'm thinking my charts should be showing those boundaries. Finally I figured it out. When I was setting up my charts, I had selected a option that eliminated a lot what I thought was unnecessary clutter, not realizing that included the boundaries for Whisky Golf. Once I turned it back on, I looked at my tracks and we turned around right on the line. Another few minutes and we would have been chatting with that patrol boat.