Cuisine

Farm and Sea to Galley

48 Hours in Thorne Bay

August 7, 2026August 10, 2026 Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2026

In a curious navigational maneuver Jupiter is sailing southeast from Southeast Alaska. She is exploring a rhumbline course to the international border with Canada. Along this route lies Thorne Bay ... Read more

Looking for Lovage in All the Wrong Places

July 19, 2026July 19, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2026

Jupiter’s crew spends far too much time looking for things they cannot find. In rural and remote communities people have an abundance of many things: fresh air, clean water, forests ... Read more

Town & Country

June 12, 2026June 12, 2026 Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2026

Jupiter processes from Prince Rupert, British Columbia to Ketchikan, Alaska in one long punishing day. The passage proves a miserable forecast, but arrival comes early by joining the Alaska time ... Read more

The Night Manager

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2026

0242 hours: A shallow, but insistent beep, beep, beeping awakens the sleeping crew. Bleary eyes address the bedside chart display announcing an anchor drag alarm. Jupiter has drifted outside the ... Read more

Reynolds Rapids

May 14, 2026May 14, 2026 British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2026

Jupiter transits Seymour Narrows, one of many important navigable tidal rapids along the Inside Passage from the San Juan Islands in Washington, through British Columbia, continuing into Southeastern Alaska. Described ... Read more

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

July 21, 2025April 30, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2025

The Bloodhound Jupiter is performing like a Bloodhound this summer, sniffing out previously unknown and unexplored inlets and outlets, hunting imaginative ways to navigate the wild waters of British Columbia. ... Read more

Cucumbersome

June 24, 2025April 30, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2025

From kayaks, Jupiter’s crew often observes Giant Red Sea Cucumbers (Apostichopus californicus) skulking around rocky shores. We are unexpectedly afforded an opportunity to dive in to this delectable echinoderm, a ... Read more

Tight Transitions

May 20, 2025April 30, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2025

Coastal British Columbia offers a remarkable opportunity for mariners looking for remote passages. A boat, departing any city, town or marina almost immediately finds itself navigating a watery outback in ... Read more

Bear Essentials

August 22, 2024April 30, 2026 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, 2024April 30, 2026 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