Circumnavigating anyplace anti-clockwise: the earth, a continent, or Vancouver Island is metaphorically provocative, and Jupiter’s summer orbit carried the little ship backwards to remote places moored firmly in past times. ... Read more

“Come on in, and welcome!” came the quick, anonymous reply on VHF channel 14 after Jupiter’s crew called about moorage at the Kyuquot public wharf. Finding space at the float, ... Read more

West Coast geography, in all its igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic geology bears the effects of the great Pacific Ocean force far more than the seashore of the Inside Passage. Tides ... Read more

Cape Scott Cruising boats often congregate at strategic anchorages awaiting advantageous weather and tides to make an anxious passage. Jupiter fell in with four sail and two power boats at ... Read more

At its northern end the wide Strait of Georgia is interrupted by an entanglement of fjords and islands known as Desolation Sound. George Vancouver, his mind entangled by bi-polar disorder, ... Read more

If you are a lover of quarrying, Texada Island is an exceptional destination. Lying along the middle of the Georgia Strait, the island, resembling a diminutive Vancouver Island wannabe, boasts ... Read more

Jupiter arrived at Ganges, the harbor hub of Salt Spring Island in the Gulf Islands, on a bright and breezy day, and moored up at the venerable Ganges Marina. Salt ... Read more