Alaska

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, 2021May 5, 2026 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, 2021May 5, 2026 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, 2021May 5, 2026 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

The Bathhouse

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021

Jupiter departs her anchorage with no plan to visit Tenakee Springs. Light winds, unusually sunny weather and the many compelling bays and coves in range seem to cloud decision making. ... Read more

I Am a Rock – I Am an Island

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2021

Fish or Die Jupiter completes her exploration of Prince of Wales Island at Craig, the principal pelagic settlement. The town has a fish-or-die feel with twin harbors crowded with idle ... Read more