Upon leaving Summit North Marina on Tuesday, we cruised 4 hours to the beautiful Sassafras River, intending to stay a few days to explore the creeks by dinghy and hike a local park off one of the creeks. After anchoring in a lovely spot…
The No Booze Cruise to Lose
As you can tell from the previous blog posting, our time in Summit North Marina was a food fest. What you didn’t see in the blog is that, over the course of 4 days, Vicki had three birthday cakes. Rog and Lisa surprised her with a yummy car…
Captain’s Log August 6, 2010
Captain’s Log – August 6, 2010- Juneau to Ketchikan
Today we are in Ketchikan, the last port city in Alaska on our way south. Ketchikan is sort of the gateway to the north, and place were all the cruise ships stop both coming and going up an…
Gloucester Island to Hinchinbrook Island
Our decision to leave the beautiful passage was made due to the weather again~ Our dilemma was whether to spend another peaceful day here and run the risk of the bad weather pattern catching up with us. Although the boat handles bad weather superbly, i…
Captain’s Log August 6, 2010
Captain’s Log – August 6, 2010- Juneau to Ketchikan
Today we are in Ketchikan, the last port city in Alaska on our way south. Ketchikan is sort of the gateway to the north, and place were all the cruise ships stop both coming and going up an…
August 1 – 5 – Glacier Bay
To say we had a wonderful time in Glacier Bay is an understatement. Bookend between a bit of clouds and wind at the start of the trip and mist and fog and the end of the trip were three absolutely gorgeous days. Glacier Bay is quite deep, proba…
The North Channel Part Three: 2010
Boyle Cove to Little Current: From Boyle Cove, we have an easy hour run to Little Current. We have made this trip now several times and are very familiar with the waterway. We timed our departure to arrive at the Little Current swing bridge on the hour for its scheduled opening. We make a quick […]
Heading to Alaska
The fridge and freezer are filled, and the dry goods and spares are stowed. Tonight
we set off for Alaska.
Most summers we spend a bit of time between the northern tip of Vancouver island and
the Alaska bord…
Captiva to Naples Sailing and Yacht Club
Thursday August 5, 2010 These are a few of the homes along the Gordon River in a neighborhood of Naples called Port Royal. It is a journey of about 5 miles up the Gordon River from Gordon Pass to the NSYC.
The Naples Sailing and Yacht Clu…
Happy Birthday at Henry’s (Fryingpan Island) 8-4-10
We only spent one night at Bone Island not really because of the snake, maybe a little bit, but more so because Birthday Boy Bob wanted more of an adventure. He is all about navigating and being a Captain so wanted to back cruising again, testing his s…
