Alaska

A Tale of Two Totems

July 9, 2023July 10, 2023 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

September 5, 2021September 6, 2021 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

Haze of Days

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, British Columbia, Summer 2021

The goal of the week is to cover ground, or rather seafloor. Timely transit along the upcoast of British Columbia where anchorages are as rare as sunshine, involves extended passages ... Read more

Circumnavigation

August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021

Margie, an accomplished single-handed sailor, photographer, and a niece, boards Jupiter in Ketchikan. The float plan for her cruise describes a 180nm widdershins circumnavigation of the island of Revillagigedo – ... Read more

Wish You Were Here

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021

Tuesday Dear Dave – Thanks for flying our family from Ketchikan to Wrangell last week. They enjoyed the smooth flight, fabulous scenery and good weather aboard one of your beautiful ... Read more

Gray Raiment

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021

The route south to Wrangell is a torturous pilotage exercise – untangling the Wrangell Narrows. The channel is a well marked and charted, but rarely seen passage between Kupreanof and ... Read more

Isostatic Rebound

July 19, 2021July 25, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021

During 1794 George Vancouver, and his meticulous survey parties exploring Icy Strait, did not find Glacier Bay. It was filled with 4000 vertical feet of ice. Less than a century ... Read more

The Laundry

July 14, 2021July 15, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021

Jupiter is anchored up in Mosquito Cove at the Inian Islands, at the edge of the Pacific where a great tidal exchange feeds the food chain. We are outside the ... Read more

Bears Watching

June 26, 2021July 14, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021

Jupiter anchors up at sublimely situated Windfall Harbor in anticipation of two long-planned events. This arresting basin lies far up the Seymour Canal inside the Glass Peninsula of Admiralty Island, ... Read more

Espar Drills

June 15, 2021June 16, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021

Jupiter’s Espar diesel cabin heater is broken, and if not fixed soon, trouble will come aboard. There are so many fishing and commercial vessels in Southeast that marine services appear ... Read more