Adventures

The Adventures of Motor Vessel Jupiter and Her Crew

Spring Planting

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 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

September 6, 2023April 30, 2026 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

August 22, 2023April 30, 2026 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

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 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

August 7, 2023August 7, 2023 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

August 2, 2023April 30, 2026 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

July 20, 2023January 15, 2024 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

July 15, 2023July 15, 2023 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

A Tale of Two Totems

July 9, 2023April 30, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2023

With an immersive sojourn at Haida Gwaii ended, Jupiter points her bow northward to Alaska. Two long passages are broken by a night’s rest at Brundige Inlet, Canada’s last anchorage ... Read more

Haida Gwaii

July 1, 2023July 1, 2023 Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2023

Haida Gwaii, Islands of the People, lie offshore northern British Columbia appearing on a chart much like the tattered sail of an ancient Hawaiian war canoe lost in the eastern ... Read more