On Monday the sun came out in Sitka and so did a new Wild Blue crew. For 10 days or so we will cruise with some SLO (San Luis Obispo) Townies. After dinner out, we get up early Tuesday and headed to St Larzaria Island and Vitskari Rocks, ak…
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Tropical Fruit
FOOD: I do cook locally, and am loving all the tropical fruits. Recently discovered that we love the taste of passion fruit, and the crunch of the seeds in our daily mixed fruit for breakfast (topped for me, with some thickened yogurt and my new favo…
the Music Lives On
My good friend Steve, who set sail recently for the great beyond, gave me an old guitar he and Lorraine had been packing about for a while and did not play. Steve loved to hear me bang out old hippy songs at our beach parties and cruiser gatherings. T…
Turning Lemons into Lemonaide
For a while ye ol generator has been running hot, I worked on it over and over, sometimes with brief success, just enough to tease. So here I am with five of the loveliest ladies on board, the most international crew to date and a cranky gen. The i…
#2013-20 Soft Batteries and Fishing Sitka in Rough Weather
Wednesday June 5: Battery Reconditioning DayThe main battery bank has not been performing to par lately. It takes a full charge but delivers just 200 amps of the full 1600 amps available before it needs a recharge. We never consume more than 800 …
#2013-19 Pretty Sitka
We’re up early and out of Appleton Cove by 6:30 as we need to be at Sergis Narrows for 9 am slack current on our way to the old Russian capitol, Sitka. Of course so does every other boat transiting Peril Strait. As we approach the Narrows, which is a m…
#2013-18 Into Peril Strait
This morning our prawn traps did not yield any catch records. In fact we returned those few that made the ride to the surface. By 10 we were on our way north in Chatham Strait. We decided to take a peek in Warm Springs Bay and noticed the dock wa…
#2013-17 Solitary Red Bluff Bay
For the first time we wake up the glorious sunshine in Hamilton Cove which brightly reflects off the tan sandy beach. Five knots of soft breeze from the southwest greets us as round the top of Kuiu Island into south Chatham Strait. Ripp…
#2013-16 Hamilton Cove on Kuiu Island via Rocky Pass
We needed to be off the anchor and underway by 7am in order to make high tide and slack current in the center of Rocky Pass. The Pass is a 15 mile winding natural water way with numerous obstructions. It is lined by some 40 navigation aids, or marks, s…
#2013-15 Onward to Exchange Cove and a Crab Fest?
Exchange Cove always has crab this time of year, mainly because the Alaska commercial crab season hasn’t yet opened. We’re looking forward to a fresh crab dinner today!This morning the battery’s voltage showed only 11.8 volts which is unusual…
