Cuisine

Farm and Sea to Galley

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

Sea and be Scene

September 6, 2023April 30, 2026 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, 2023April 30, 2026 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, 2023April 30, 2026 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, 2023April 30, 2026 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