British Columbia

Coprecipitation

June 8, 2024June 8, 2024 Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2024

Dew Points North It is not currently raining, but for the past two weeks Jupiter travels north through continuous precipitation—showers, drizzle, mist, fog, and downpours. Rainfall in all synchronic forms ... Read more

A Cautionary Tale

May 31, 2024May 31, 2024 Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024

Vessels making passage northbound through British Columbia must round Cape Caution, a 40 nautical mile over-exposure to the Pacific Ocean. The dismal and unremarkable headland marking the center of the ... Read more

Worlds Without End

May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 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

May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 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

Sea and be Scene

September 6, 2023September 6, 2023 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, 2023August 23, 2023 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, 2023August 2, 2023 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

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