The Three Graces
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025 Wherever you go, that is where you are. Entering any place a vessel and her crew quickly become part of the scene. Jupiter arrives at an anchorage or settlement, and ... Read more
Tight Transitions
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2025 Coastal British Columbia offers a remarkable opportunity for mariners looking for remote passages. A boat, departing any city, town or marina almost immediately finds itself navigating a watery outback in ... Read more
Smarter Next Year
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025, Washington In a marvel of modern motivational merchandising a doctor and some chimerical cronies publish a book called Younger Next Year: Live long, Fit, Sexy and Smart that advocates changing behavior ... Read more
Viewfinders
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024 The seasonal progression springs into summer aboard Jupiter. Then, when least expected, the impossibly long days of the short Alaskan summer fade into nautical twilight, reminding the crew to plan ... Read more
Bear Essentials
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2024 Select all images with bears Whales are Jupiter’s fellow travelers, but bears belong to the shadowy shores, the arboreal lands more imagined than manifested. At every anchorage we wear our ... Read more
Intersection at Port Protection
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024 On a rare, clear, calm day Jupiter, carrying the past of a man, cautiously enters Wooden Wheel Cove in Port Protection. The crew is on a self-deputed quest to deliver ... Read more
Saints and Seiners
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2024 There are Six Saints and Sixty Seiners attributed to Sitka, but only three distinct ways to travel there by boat: 1. Via the Peril Strait, the timed rapids at Sergius ... Read more
Late Night at Rose’s Bar
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024 Jupiter’s crew determines that pinnipeds and people – sea lions and sailors – do not commune well, and after two days of curiosity, close eyeballing, hearing and smelling one another ... Read more
Yachting in Alaska
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024 A sea story from 1930’s relates an account of a young man outfitting an attractive ketch in Seattle to sail north through the Inside Passage to Alaska. Along comes a ... Read more
Peripheral Vision
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024 Jupiter’s arrival in Alaska is remarkable because Ketchikan is sunny enough to cause taxi drivers and shopkeepers to whinge to visitors about the heat – a curious form of mackerel ... Read more