Washington

Wheels of Fortune

May 9, 2026May 9, 2026 British Columbia, Spring 2026, Washington

On a winter’s day in deep and dark December, Jupiter’s Crew dines at an Asian-themed restaurant three thousand nautical miles from where Jupiter now swings silently on her anchor at ... Read more

Smarter Next Year

May 11, 2025May 12, 2025 Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025, Washington

In a marvel of modern motivational merchandising a doctor and some chimerical cronies publish a book called Younger Next Year: Live long, Fit, Sexy and Smart that advocates changing behavior ... Read more

Spring Training

May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2024, Washington

Spring training for baseball teams includes a combination of practices and exhibitions facilitating a cruel cycle of promotions and relegations necessary to build a team able to sail through the ... Read more

Jinx

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 Adventures, Washington, Winter 2023

Sometimes planets align in a favorable way, sometimes not. Upon a mid-January arrival at Jupiter in Roche Harbor the crew cranks up the boat’s heaters of the electric kind and ... Read more

Hail and Farewell

September 4, 2022April 30, 2026 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

Perspective

July 30, 2022May 10, 2026 Adventures, Summer 2022, Washington

Preliminaries Preparing Jupiter for her August debut requires a visit by one of her captains and an engineer. The boat’s general condition must be surveyed, her mechanical and safety systems ... Read more

Wolf Moon

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Adventures, Washington, Winter 2022

“The wolf moon appears in the dead of winter signaling a time of transformation…” Stina Garbonos, Psychic Astrologer The wolf moon, like every full moon and every new moon, forges ... Read more

On The Beach

September 15, 2020May 5, 2026 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

September 5, 2020May 5, 2026 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

August 21, 2020May 5, 2026 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