Cuisine

Farm and Sea to Galley

Bear Essentials

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2024

Select all images with bears Whales are Jupiter’s fellow travelers, but bears belong to the shadowy shores, the arboreal lands more imagined than manifested. At every anchorage we wear our ... Read more

Saints and Seiners

July 22, 2024July 23, 2024 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

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

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

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

Foraged Food + Coastal Cooking

June 13, 2023June 14, 2023 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2023

Spot prawn are in season, and BC commercial fishermen are harvesting in abundance from 300 foot depths. Cook acquires a few kilos fresh from the sea by loitering where incoming ... Read more

Leg Quarters

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Winter 2023

A stop to shop in Sidney, BC is planned to provision Jupiter for her winter cruise. Whilst perusing offerings at a local grocery, duck leg quarters from Quebec catch chef’s ... Read more

Hail and Farewell

September 4, 2022September 4, 2022 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, ORYC, Summer 2022, Washington

Day 10: Curve of Line The fresh morning finds the Flotilla dispersed between three anchorages about a mile apart. Fortunately Captain Chris’ morning hail finds everyone hale and whole, and ... Read more

Upwelling

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2022

There exists a realm within coastal British Columbia where Vancouver Island appears to have tried and failed to quit the mainland and escape into the wide Pacific. Here is found ... Read more