The Laundry
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021
Jupiter is anchored up in Mosquito Cove at the Inian Islands, at the edge of the Pacific where a great tidal exchange feeds the food chain. We are outside the ... Read more
Bears Watching
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021
Jupiter anchors up at sublimely situated Windfall Harbor in anticipation of two long-planned events. This arresting basin lies far up the Seymour Canal inside the Glass Peninsula of Admiralty Island, ... Read more
The Journeyman
Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2021
Errands in Ketchikan last week found us in the careworn cab of a careworn woman from the Haida tribe. She related how she grew up in the village of Hydaburg ... Read more
On The Beach
Adventures, Autumn 2020, Cuisine, Washington
A friend writes that Jupiter’s mariners remind him of characters portrayed in the book, On the Beach – survivors roaming to avoid contamination in a post-apocalyptic world. Wandering restlessly aboard ... Read more
The Fifth Dimension
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington
Traveling in consort with friends aboard their own boat adds a fifth dimension to any voyage. In the course of a typical summer Jupiter hosts friends aboard, however Covid concerns ... Read more
A Distant Island
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington
Jupiter is Not Alone Cruising the San Juan Islands in August presents challenges to voyagers longing for remote, unoccupied anchorages. The seasonal surge of cruising craft is compounded by Covid ... Read more
Food Chain
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington
Inspired by the legendary 60’s hit single, Chain of Foods, we explore the ways gastronomy governs life aboard Jupiter. Chain, chain, chainChain, chain, chainChain of foods… Aretha Franklin, 1967 Following ... Read more
NorthWest Side Story
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington
In 1792 Captain George Vancouver failed to discover the Swinomish Channel because it was not constructed until 1937. The Swinomish waterway was conceived to facilitate marine commerce by connecting the ... Read more
Logs
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington
Baited by rumors of a famed Farmers Market, we are reeled in and landed at the Port of Olympia where we make our ultimate southing in Puget’s sound. We find ... Read more
Gig Harbor Gig
Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2020, Washington
Jupiter, with two lazy laggards aboard, is not keeping pace with Captain George Vancouver. During May and June of 1792, Vancouver and his speed surveyors accomplished the coastal reckoning of ... Read more