To The Lighthouse
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington An advantage of living aboard at sea is the occasional ability to quit the vessel and explore a remote shore on foot. Stuart Island in the northern San Juans lies ... Read more
Gorge
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Fall 2019 Gorge Harbour is for sale. One of our favorite marinas with new and obsessively swept and washed docks, easy access from Desolation Sound, a surprisingly well-provisioned grocery store, swimming pool ... Read more
Hooked
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2019 During the past weeks we noted an increase in fishing boats prowling with purpose around rocky points and promontories like underdressed men trying to access an exclusive nightclub. Why? Salmon ... Read more
Wave Top Crops
Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2019 Jupiter is nearing the apogean northwestern tip of Vancouver Island. Regardless of solstitial days and fine weather, we have passed far beyond the verdant valleys of the Saanich Peninsula where ... Read more
Archipelagic Aspirations
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2019, Washington Vancouver Island predominates the geography of southern British Columbia. This landmass, 300 miles long and 50 miles wide, is thick with highlands and thin with rivers, inlets and sounds. Jupiter’s ... Read more
Eating Vancouver
Adventures, Autumn 2018, British Columbia, Cuisine Captain George Vancouver, epic explorer of Pacific America, although oft reviled was not eaten by his men. When Jupiter arrived in the explorer’s eponymous city, the ship’s crew resolved to ... Read more
Pie in the Sky
Adventures, Autumn 2018, British Columbia, Cuisine We have been living under low ceilings – so low that it seems counter-intuitive to stand up straight. Sandwiched between the deep grey sea and low slung cloud, our view ... Read more
Rounding Revillagigedo
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018 Sunday, Ketchikan Fueled up, moored up and grubbed up at Safeway and A&P (Alaskan & Proud) supermarkets. Fresh produce arrives in refrigerated containers via barge from Seattle on Sundays, distributed ... Read more
Catching Crabs
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018 After several futile attempts at catching crabs in our pot carried aboard Jupiter since Bellingham, with purchased fishing licenses for B.C. and Alaska, we finally reaped a generous haul of ... Read more
Kushtakas & Kedgeree
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018 Thomas Bay is a place of dark secrets and myths. In this narrow, well marked entrance channel tide-rips and whirlpools greeted Jupiter with bergy bits and growlers riding the flows. ... Read more