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A speech from the throne: (just kidding) In June of this year I started this blog and the first entry was our arrival in Curacao from the outer islands of Venezuela. I’ll try to stay current with my entries, but Benno and I have since recaptured the …

Mud Baths

The mud baths were incredible. You walk up to an old volcano crater, step down into the mud and the experience begins. (View Post…)

More mud

John even enjoyed it! (View Post…)

Winter Dream’in – Part 2

I’ve been fussing further with the track data I extracted from the navigation computer and have uploaded all our anchorages up to both the Microsoft and Google mapping sites.  These can be opened up as a separate browser windows and don’t requ…

Winter Dream’in

While looking out at the Seattle winter grayness it is fun to relive this summer’s journeys. I pulled from the navigation computer the tracks recorded by the software.  I’ve exported them into a file that can be opened in Google Earth (softwar…

September 3-19 – Propped Migration

Rather than pretend I am keeping up the blog by back dating entries, this post is a roll-up of things since Ketchikan. There is a wonderful movie about birds, Winged Migration. I feel as though we’ve become a part of a human equivalent by joining th…

Ketchikan – August 30

After six weeks of poking around north and west of Ketchikan, we motored back into Bar Harbor marina this afternoon. Before pulling in, we stopped at the fuel dock and took on 200 gallons of fuel. I estimate that we had somewhat over 300 gallons of f…

August 29 – Gardner Bay

What a great day! First, the weather was perfect, light winds and partly sunny as the day wore on. Second, the scenery was spectacular as we motored through protected channels created by the dozens of little islands in the bay. Lastly, we had some unfo…

August 28 – Kassa Island Bay

We departed at oh-dark thirty in order to hit slack at Tlevak Narrows, about 19 miles from Craig.  Even though we were only about forty minutes past slack, we already had a 2 knot current (in our favor fortunately) in the narrows and nearly knots …

August 27 – Craig

We got a fairly early start in order to get close to slack water through the Tonowek Narrows. The cruising was pleasant and we arrived in the town of Craig shortly after 12PM. Along the way, we saw the requisite sea otters. We also had become sensiti…