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
I Am a Rock – I Am an Island
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021 Fish or Die Jupiter completes her exploration of Prince of Wales Island at Craig, the principal pelagic settlement. The town has a fish-or-die feel with twin harbors crowded with idle ... Read more
The Journeyman
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021 Errands in Ketchikan last week found us in the careworn cab of a careworn woman from the Haida tribe. She related how she grew up in the village of Hydaburg ... Read more
The Marine Expressway
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2021 May 6: Into Canadian Waters Having passed muster with Canadian Border Services, Jupiter departs Customs at Port Sidney, smugly displaying her orange Canadian transit permit in the salon window, as ... Read more
Innocent Passage
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2021 Innocent Passage is a concept of maritime law that allows for a vessel to pass through the archipelagic and territorial waters of another state as long as no harm is ... Read more