Intersection at Port Protection
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024
On a rare, clear, calm day Jupiter, carrying the past of a man, cautiously enters Wooden Wheel Cove in Port Protection. The crew is on a self-deputed quest to deliver ... Read more
Saints and Seiners
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2024
There are Six Saints and Sixty Seiners attributed to Sitka, but only three distinct ways to travel there by boat: 1. Via the Peril Strait, the timed rapids at Sergius ... Read more
Late Night at Rose’s Bar
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024
Jupiter’s crew determines that pinnipeds and people – sea lions and sailors – do not commune well, and after two days of curiosity, close eyeballing, hearing and smelling one another ... Read more
Yachting in Alaska
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024
A sea story from 1930’s relates an account of a young man outfitting an attractive ketch in Seattle to sail north through the Inside Passage to Alaska. Along comes a ... Read more
Peripheral Vision
Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024
Jupiter’s arrival in Alaska is remarkable because Ketchikan is sunny enough to cause taxi drivers and shopkeepers to whinge to visitors about the heat – a curious form of mackerel ... 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
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
A Tale of Two Totems
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
Jupiter’s Way to Z
Adventures, Alaska, British Columbia, Summer 2021
A is for Anchorage, so many, so deep In BC and Alaska ground tackle means sleep B is for Bears, hairy blacks and big brown When salmon are spawning, they ... Read more