I've never done it, but if you pick only the best weather days, I am guessing that Vancouver to Victoria could be easy. I picked a perfect day and took my 16 foot Double Eagle (main motor and kicker) from Esquimalt Anglers to Port Angeles and back - 18 nautical miles each way. It was a beautiful trip. So calm you could have paddled across. I recognized that weather can change really fast, so I didn't spend a lot of time in Port Angeles, but it was a piece of cake both ways. VHF, GPS Chartplotter (handheld backups of each), AIS receiver, iPhone was it for electronics. I was also ready to retreat at any given moment if the weather changed.
The US border guard who met me in Port Angeles just about fell over when he saw my boat. He said it was extremely rare for such a small boat to ever venture across.
No trip is risk free, but if you pick your weather carefully, are prepared to bail out of the trip if necessary, and prepare with good safety equipment, I don't think a trip like mine was an outrageous risk. I think Zurk sounds like he's being careful. Is his route much longer or more difficult?