Worlds Without End
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024 When we step aboard Jupiter in spring, we embrace a peripatetic existence known to seafarers and nomads that describes a world without a beginning or an end. As we embark ... Read more
Spring Training
Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024, Washington Spring training for baseball teams includes a combination of practices and exhibitions facilitating a cruel cycle of promotions and relegations necessary to build a team able to sail through the ... Read more
Spring Planting
Adventures, Spring 2024 The season for seeding seafaring strategies finds Jupiter’s crew in Florida, further removed from Jupiter than possible within the 48 states owing to her berthing in British Columbia. Projects and ... Read more
Sea and be Scene
Adventures, Autumn 2023, British Columbia, Cuisine When you arrive at a place previously unknown you are a tourist, but when you arrive by boat you immediately become part of the scene. As Jupiter concludes her marvelous ... Read more
Slow Falling of Cedars
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2023 One of the Crew’s many daughters, Alice, joins Jupiter at Port McNeill for a brief cruise to two outports and an anchorage. The weather prediction is unambiguous: fog followed by ... Read more
Southing
Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2023 Time is told, and now begins the season of southing in the watery parts of the Pacific Northwest. Jupiter’s world divides into migrators and remainders and the crew wonders if ... Read more
Invisibility
Adventures, Alaska, British Columbia, Summer 2023 Loud horn blasts are heard outside Jupiter’s anchorage near the Gordon Channel where massive cruise ships steam southbound from Alaska. We track the ships’ electronic signatures live on our chartplotters, ... Read more
Incident at Ire Inlet
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2023 “I am shutting down the generator.” he yells. “We’ve got smoke.” She’s leaning off the flybridge dangling a long lens over the smack of coral-hued jellyfish swarming with the incoming ... Read more
Curiouser and Curiouser
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2023 Cruising southbound abreast the long eastern shore of Prince of Wales Island, Jupiter encounters the Kashevarof Passage on a day best enjoyed in port. The wind and tide are roaring ... Read more
De’Fender
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2023 I have a hard job aboard this blue boatHanging down here or there between vessel and floatPressed into service, squeezed into tight spacesWhen the boat is tied up on a ... Read more