Wow, a blink of the eye and three weeks has passed. We have been loving our time in Unalaska. Upon arrival there was one other sailing boat. The next morning there was two not including us. Later that afternoon another boat arrived. Lol. Boats kept arriving until there were seven […]
Fishing
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Who goes fishing with a ski goggles on? Well Sara did and Wade thought her perhaps slightly a dork, yet shortly after taking off to fish in the dinghy it began to sleet, then snow, then a snowstorm. Who was laughing then? Well it wasn’t Wade and it might have […]
We arrived early April at Wade’s farm in Iowa. The initial thought was to work a month on the farm, pack up, and fly back to Kodiak where the boat is still moored. Well you see, what happened was . . . we bought a Lance truck camper to drive […]
Over the last 24 hours we made 14 miles towards our destination of Dutch Harbor. Yes that is no typo, 14 miles. The wind switched to 20 knots out of the north, the direction we want to go, but cannot sail. And because the wind is suppose to switch to […]
We lost a cedar plug and the next one we put on actually split, so we are now on a third cedar plug. However, we still caught two Albacore tunas, 45 and 35 lbs. Five zip lock quart sized packages of steaks were pu in the freezer, we saved some […]
Fishing for us has always been a team effort. We both put the lines out and both pull in the lines or Wade might gaff the fish when Sara gets the fish near the back of the boat, but this time Sara caught, filleted, and cooked her very first fish. […]
Another day, another mahi. 🙂 The mahi bite is starting to slow, but the area from Hawaii to 600 miles north thereof seems plentiful with them. Now if we were to ask if the mahi could be just a little bigger, would that make us look disgracefully unappreciative? Thankfully and […]
Today we entered deeper into a high pressure system and as expected the wind became lighter. By 9:30 am we had to start the engine to motor-sail. And at around noon the sea became a glassy calm and we put away our sails that were just hanging limp. Further north […]
They just keep coming. We caught three nice size Mahi’s today! By the time we get to Dutch Harbor we won’t have any more freezer space, haha. There is a substantial high pressure area a couple days north of us and we may not have much wind for a day […]
Poseidon’s Garden theory is in effect and working wonderfully! We are no longer circulating the water through the tubes in King Neptune’s Garden. Generally, on a timer 16 times a day water is pumped from a reservoir, stored in one of our compartments, into the top garden tube (aka fence […]
The day has finally arrived! About time too! We probably could have left last week because the weather was good for sailing to Dutch Harbor, but we are happy we stayed to finish our projects. You bet we played Johnny Horton North to Alaska as we left the harbor. We […]
Yesterday we went to town and took a look at the fishing gear. Not so much to our surprise the prices for a Penn fishing reel was twice the amount from in the states, so for $162 we purchased two hand lines, 260kg weight line, and mechanics. We found a […]
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