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
Coprecipitation
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2024
Dew Points North It is not currently raining, but for the past two weeks Jupiter travels north through continuous precipitation—showers, drizzle, mist, fog, and downpours. Rainfall in all synchronic forms ... Read more
A Cautionary Tale
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024
Vessels making passage northbound through British Columbia must round Cape Caution, a 40 nautical mile over-exposure to the Pacific Ocean. The dismal and unremarkable headland marking the center of the ... Read more
Worlds Without End
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024
When we step aboard Jupiter in spring, we embrace a peripatetic existence known to seafarers and nomads that describes a world without a beginning or an end. As we embark ... Read more
Spring Training
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024, Washington
Spring training for baseball teams includes a combination of practices and exhibitions facilitating a cruel cycle of promotions and relegations necessary to build a team able to sail through the ... Read more
Spring Planting
Adventures, Spring 2024
The season for seeding seafaring strategies finds Jupiter’s crew in Florida, further removed from Jupiter than possible within the 48 states owing to her berthing in British Columbia. Projects and ... Read more
Sea and be Scene
Adventures, Autumn 2023, British Columbia, Cuisine
When you arrive at a place previously unknown you are a tourist, but when you arrive by boat you immediately become part of the scene. As Jupiter concludes her marvelous ... Read more