When we started down the path of regular summer cruising in Alaska, we concluded that owning a home in the Pacific NW had more negatives than positives. After considerable time, effort and money on deferred maintenance and enhancements, in December 201…
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Fall 2012 Cruising
One of my pet peeves about cruising blogs is infrequent updates. In the future I will have to be less peevish and more tolerant when reading someone’s blog that hasn’t been updated in six months. My last entry (also a roll-up) recounted our life t…
April-August Roll-Up
Before it gets even more embarrassingly tardy, I need to update our activities over the last five months. First, no cruising with the exception of a 5-day jaunt to Anacortes in May to attend Trawlerfest. Our big activity has been to first get our…
Metal Boat Festival Presentation
The Metal Boat Society has an annual festival and this year we were asked to present on our experiences of having Alpenglow built. Here is a link to the PDF visuals we used to give structure to our presentation.
A Change in Scenery
Up until recently, we have been wintering the boat (i.e., the September through May we aren’t cruising) on Lake Union. That site was convenient from our house, an 8 or 9 mile drive, but noisy and dirty (it was almost directly underneath the I-5 bridg…
Keeping Cool
The additional monitoring sensors I installed in our NMEA2000 system this winter has provided a wealth of data. One tidbit was the temperature of the two AC transformers (isolation and step-down) in our electrical system. I was surprised at the the inc…
Keeping Track of Things
The largest project on the boat this winter has been to take advantage of the NMEA2000 backbone running through our boat and increase the level of system monitoring that we do. When Seahorse Marine built our boat a couple of years ago, we had them in…
The Price of Ice
Last summer while visiting Tracy Arm with our friends the Crowders, we did a tour down to the snout of the North Sawyer Glacier (Crowder visit). As we were viewing the glacier a nice chunk fell off. We were about a half mile away so I wasn’t worrie…
2011 Anchorages and Moorages
Below is a map of all of our stops we made along the way this year. (The blue marks for the stops may not show up in Internet Explorer, try another browser like Firefox or Chrome) View 2011 Alaska Cruise in a larger map
September 17-20 – The Finish Line
To close out our 2011 cruise on the morning of September 17 we headed south down Rosario Strait, along the west shore of Whidbey Island and into Admiralty Inlet. There is lots of commercial traffic in that area, so you venture into the vessel traffic l…
