Jupiter’s Way to Z
Adventures, Alaska, British Columbia, Summer 2021 A is for Anchorage, so many, so deep In BC and Alaska ground tackle means sleep B is for Bears, hairy blacks and big brown When salmon are spawning, they ... Read more
Haze of Days
Adventures, Alaska, British Columbia, Summer 2021 The goal of the week is to cover ground, or rather seafloor. Timely transit along the upcoast of British Columbia where anchorages are as rare as sunshine, involves extended passages ... Read more
Circumnavigation
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021 Margie, an accomplished single-handed sailor, photographer, and a niece, boards Jupiter in Ketchikan. The float plan for her cruise describes a 180nm widdershins circumnavigation of the island of Revillagigedo – ... Read more
Wish You Were Here
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021 Tuesday Dear Dave – Thanks for flying our family from Ketchikan to Wrangell last week. They enjoyed the smooth flight, fabulous scenery and good weather aboard one of your beautiful ... Read more
Gray Raiment
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021 The route south to Wrangell is a torturous pilotage exercise – untangling the Wrangell Narrows. The channel is a well marked and charted, but rarely seen passage between Kupreanof and ... Read more
Isostatic Rebound
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021 During 1794 George Vancouver, and his meticulous survey parties exploring Icy Strait, did not find Glacier Bay. It was filled with 4000 vertical feet of ice. Less than a century ... Read more
The Laundry
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021 Jupiter is anchored up in Mosquito Cove at the Inian Islands, at the edge of the Pacific where a great tidal exchange feeds the food chain. We are outside the ... Read more
Bears Watching
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021 Jupiter anchors up at sublimely situated Windfall Harbor in anticipation of two long-planned events. This arresting basin lies far up the Seymour Canal inside the Glass Peninsula of Admiralty Island, ... Read more
Espar Drills
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021 Jupiter’s Espar diesel cabin heater is broken, and if not fixed soon, trouble will come aboard. There are so many fishing and commercial vessels in Southeast that marine services appear ... Read more
The Bathhouse
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021 Jupiter departs her anchorage with no plan to visit Tenakee Springs. Light winds, unusually sunny weather and the many compelling bays and coves in range seem to cloud decision making. ... Read more