Summer 2024

Viewfinders

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 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

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 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

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 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

July 22, 2024July 23, 2024 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

July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 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

July 4, 2024July 4, 2024 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

June 24, 2024June 25, 2024 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

June 8, 2024June 8, 2024 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