Shipmates
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2018
Keeping a schedule is antithetical to goals for Jupiter’s voyage, thus when friends visit logistical planning can be challenging. The best solution is to fly to a nearby town served ... Read more
Catching Crabs
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018
After several futile attempts at catching crabs in our pot carried aboard Jupiter since Bellingham, with purchased fishing licenses for B.C. and Alaska, we finally reaped a generous haul of ... Read more
Glacial Madness
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2018
It was time for Jupiter to cool her keels and visit Alaska’s iconic tidewater glaciers. The turbulent entry channel into Tracy Arm is well marked by buoys, and by icebergs ... Read more
Fish Tenders
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2018
The salmon fishery is intense. Every hour counts. Permission to fish for certain species is granted and rescinded for all fishing vessels on a schedule dictated by Alaska Department of ... Read more
Juneau Jökulhlaup
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2018
On an unseasonably warm day during a victualing stop in Juneau we resolved to visit two of the thirty-eight named glaciers fed by the Juneau Icefield. The most exciting and ... Read more
On the Beach and In the Weeds
Adventures, Alaska, British Columbia, Spring 2018, Summer 2018
Captain, O Captain! My time has come You abandoned me – what have you done? You forgot the times we had at sea And now onshore you’ve forsaken me The ... Read more
No Bears
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2018
Since arriving in Alaska on June 12th we have been scouting for wildlife. Here is our report on sea mammals and bears: Pinnipeds: Harbor Seals haul out onto ice to ... Read more
Kushtakas & Kedgeree
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018
Thomas Bay is a place of dark secrets and myths. In this narrow, well marked entrance channel tide-rips and whirlpools greeted Jupiter with bergy bits and growlers riding the flows. ... Read more
Totem Carver’s Halibut
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018
Seeking neither a famous totem pole carver nor a halibut recipe, we happened upon both in one gentle, languorous, soft-spoken man. Having taken a walk to Saxman Village to see ... Read more
Home for the Fourth
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2018
Fourth of July in Wrangell reflects the good nature, self-reliance and community service found in many midwestern farm communities. This is a patriotic, Island-American enclave in a sea of salmon and ... Read more