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Tuesday Dear Dave – Thanks for flying our family from Ketchikan to Wrangell last week. They enjoyed the smooth flight, fabulous scenery and good weather ...
The Adventures Continue
Gray Raiment
The route south to Wrangell is a torturous pilotage exercise – untangling the Wrangell Narrows. The channel is a well marked and charted, but rarely ...Isostatic Rebound
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 ...The Laundry
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 ...Bears Watching
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 ...Espar Drills
Jupiter’s Espar diesel cabin heater is broken, and if not fixed soon, trouble will come aboard. There are so many fishing and commercial vessels in ...The Bathhouse
Jupiter departs her anchorage with no plan to visit Tenakee Springs. Light winds, unusually sunny weather and the many compelling bays and coves in range ...I Am a Rock – I Am an Island
Fish or Die Jupiter completes her exploration of Prince of Wales Island at Craig, the principal pelagic settlement. The town has a fish-or-die feel with ...The Journeyman
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 ...The Marine Expressway
May 6: Into Canadian Waters Having passed muster with Canadian Border Services, Jupiter departs Customs at Port Sidney, smugly displaying her orange Canadian transit permit ...Innocent Passage
Innocent Passage is a concept of maritime law that allows for a vessel to pass through the archipelagic and territorial waters of another state as ...On The Beach
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 ...
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