Saints and Seiners
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Isostatic Rebound
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