Liveaboards
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2025
Years ago in Maine, Jupiter is tied up at a marina nice enough to require a reservation weeks in advance at one of the lovely towns named for a compass ... Read more
The 60 Hour Gale
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2025
Jupiter and her crew always enjoy visiting McMicking Inlet. The promise of rare birds, wilderness anchorages and white sand beaches, overseen by jurassic granite and quartz highlands, beckons each time ... Read more
Cucumbersome
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2025
From kayaks, Jupiter’s crew often observes Giant Red Sea Cucumbers (Apostichopus californicus) skulking around rocky shores. We are unexpectedly afforded an opportunity to dive in to this delectable echinoderm, a ... Read more
14-61
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2025
Are you my Mom? chirped Baby BirdIndeed, replies the motherAnd this is Dad, at least for nowUntil I choose another Dad flew so far and found this boxGod bless his ... Read more
Rapid Distraction
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2025
The well-established Inside Passage from Seattle, North by Northwest through Southeastern Alaska is familiar to Jupiter and her crew. Yet the immense wilderness of archipelagos and shorelines remains awash in ... Read more
Roadside Traction
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025
Jupiter’s crew is conversant with the sea, her channels, bays, capes and coves, but bewildered by highways and byways ashore and unmarked on navigational charts. We recognise that roads exist ... Read more
The Three Graces
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025
Wherever you go, that is where you are. Entering any place a vessel and her crew quickly become part of the scene. Jupiter arrives at an anchorage or settlement, and ... Read more
Tight Transitions
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2025
Coastal British Columbia offers a remarkable opportunity for mariners looking for remote passages. A boat, departing any city, town or marina almost immediately finds itself navigating a watery outback in ... Read more
Smarter Next Year
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025, Washington
In a marvel of modern motivational merchandising a doctor and some chimerical cronies publish a book called Younger Next Year: Live long, Fit, Sexy and Smart that advocates changing behavior ... Read more
Viewfinders
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