Saturday June 29th, Sunday 30th A very short report today. We spent the last two days here in Meyer’s Chuck. Yesterday it was a particularly busy with the dock chocked full of boats and several boats rafted on. It has been the busiest place we have been too, save for Warm Springs. Today we spent … Read More “Two Days in Meyer’s Chuck” »
Friday June 28th, 2024 We left Petersburg at 5:45 am to catch slack in Wrangell Narrows at 6:45. If we needed to slow down we would but we wanted to get out before the fishing boats headed out around 6:30 a.m., specifically the fishing boat next to us that almost crashed into our boat yesterday … Read More “Thoms Bay: a stop off between Petersburg and Ketchikan” »
Thursday, June 27th, 2024 OK, we are hanging in Petersburg waiting for the technician to arrive to determine if we are a go or no. This picture, a ramp to nowhere, paints our situation, but does it lead to a happy place? The answer to our bad VHF and alarming MFD was the switch above, … Read More “Last Night in Petersburg” »
Wednesday June 26th, 2024 This was a quiet day. We had breakfast on the boat and then headed out for a long walk. Eagles were on the route. Tomorrow will be an electronic mechanic day helping us out (hopefully) resolving our VHF radio and display issue. In the meantime I’m going to turn it over … Read More “A quiet day of re-provisioning in Petersburg” »
Tuesday June 25th, 2024 We planned to leave Portage Bay this morning about 7:00 a.m. but we had an “anchor issue” we discovered when we started to pull up our anchor bridle. The night was relatively calm. Portage Bay is a large open Bay that can offer good protection on a quiet night but not … Read More “Back in Petersburg” »
Monday June 24th, 2024 Neither I nor Marlene got a good nights sleep. The major cause was the foreboding, shadowing feature of the big fishing boats, rafted three deep in front of us. Clearly we were boxed in and there was NO WAY we would be able to exit the harbor unless two of them … Read More “A Change in Plans” »
Sunday June 23rd, 2024 We left Ell inlet this morning around 9:00 a.m. The fishing boat had left so we had the inlet to ourselves. It was a somewhat misty morning. The cruise to Warm Springs was only an hour and a half. Marlene warned me that the dock may be full. She was not … Read More “Warm Springs: beautiful but busy ( based on Alaska standards!)” »
Saturday June 22, 2024 We left Tenakee Springs this morning at 5:00 a.m. I’m not a huge fan of super early out but some times you have to do it. The European model of Predict Wind was forecasting 4 knot winds with 13 knot gusts for the first couple hours of the journey, increasing to … Read More “ELL Cove: Bear Country” »
Friday June 21, 2024 As reported yesterday, we ended up staying an extra night here. We have been watching this approaching blow on Predict Wind for about a week. It moved from Thursday to Friday night. We decided it would be better to be on a dock to weather a storm vs. out on a … Read More “Last Night in Tenakee Springs” »
Thursday, June 20th, 2024 We don’t have a lot to report today. We spent our second day here going for a walk, catching up on emails, etc. Our intention was to head South tomorrow for Hanus Inlet but we have been tracking a nasty blow coming through this part of Alaska for the last week. … Read More “Day Two: Tenakee Springs” »