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August 5, 2023

Log: Go simple, go (sorta) small, but go now!

Prelude Jack said we just needed to set a date. So he did. May 15th. If you don’t, you risk never casting off those lines.…
July 17, 2022

Summer Books – 2022

In anticipation of long quiet days at anchor, I start moving books on board in the winter. This compartmentalizes what I don’t have time for…
July 20, 2019

Log: Southern BC – familiar and challenging

I post this with new appreciation of our most southern and homebound passage. Most times – many more times than our six passages all the…
July 12, 2019

Summer Books – 2019

Here’s how I spend time at anchor on the long afternoons that follow our early mornings. Jack has the coffee ready by 5:00 am and…
June 18, 2019

Log: 2019 #DreamPOWABC

#DreamPOWABC A white sheet of paper with that written with a black sharpie has been taped to the inside of the door on the…
July 28, 2018

Tracy Arm!

Well, we finally did it. On the Fourth of July we were ambling back south but just not ready for it. Comparing destinations with fellow…
July 16, 2018

Our Southeast Cities

Our Southeast Cities Sitka and Petersburg. A week in each has reacquainted us with these two gems in Southeast, as Alaskans call their panhandle. Both enjoy…
July 13, 2018

Log: Watery wilderness to Petersburg

Tuesday 3 July 2018 Appleton Cove on Peril Strait 57º25’N 135º15.7’W In Sitka we take shore leave from the comfort of our home base on Aurora.…
June 29, 2018

Log: From the magic of Klemtu to the enchantment of Sitka

Tuesday 12 June 2018 Klemtu 52º35.6’ºN 128º31’W We break the usual long passage north with a stop in Klemtu, where we land at the fuel dock…
June 20, 2018

Visiting Klemtu’s Big House with a Hereditary Chief

Ever since first laying eyes on Klemtu’s Big House, I’ve wanted to get inside. In a First Nations village on a remote area of the…