Our alarm went off at 3:30 am. By 4:00 am we were pulling up the anchor. At 4:05 am Wade was rushing back to the cockpit, stating we lost power to the anchor windless. He went into the cabin to check the breaker switches, on his way and back to […]
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Wide Bay is truly a blow hole. As we approached Wide Bay around 9 or 10 am there was no wind, literally no wind, glass calm water, and not a ripple anywhere indicating there was wind. The temperature read 60 degrees, and not only did we have the scenic rugged […]
We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day, well, that isn’t exactly true as we wish we had some wind, but beggers can’t be choosers. The outside temperature not in the sun is around 65 degrees but in the sun is closer to 70 to 75, even 80 degrees […]
This must be a real vacation for Sara because she has not had to cook in two days (well maybe breakfast), but no seriously! Wade gets the triple C award (which is better than a three star Michelin rating). As normally a C would be an average grade, but here […]
We had a beautiful moon lit sail and another sunny day. As we rounded Cape Cheerful and made our approach to Dutch Harbor our winds died and we had misty cold rain. We were so bummed to learn from everyone the last two weeks have been record hot temperatures on […]
We transferred fuel from jerry cans to the main fuel tank this morning. We have the motor running with full mainsail. Winds are 10 to 15 knots out of the north-northeast. The sky is blue. The sun is out. We are just hanging out and reading books. Easy Day. Cheers, […]
Sunrise was at 7:28 am, which would have been nice to see during our early morning departure from Atka village, but we were enveloped in a very dense fog. The fog was so thick we used radar to leave the anchorage. We are heading east, well more like northeast. The […]
We’ve had an extremely long day to make only 4 miles good to Dutch Harbor. If we could do it all over again we would have stayed where we were anchored. Hiked the trail to town, maybe organized fuel delivery, and probably had a beach picnic on yet again another […]
We woke to a beautiful sunny day, light east winds, and calm seas. We headed to Korovin Bay to fish for halibut, but instead caught the mother load of pacific cod. We could hardly get our lure to the seafloor and had two hooked. The average size was around 20 […]
Squash zone. A squash zone is exactly as it sounds, we are smooched between a high pressure system and a low pressure system. As you can imagine the winds have been high (35-45 knots) and our anchorage a bit bumpy from the white caps; although we are anchored less than […]
Peeling and fleshing the Caribou took until 2 am, so we were exhausted! Bluefox Bay Atka is open to the Bearing Sea so swell kept rocking us back and forth through the night. We woke late this morning to sunshine and calm water and we moved anchorages. The 48 hour […]
Yesterday evening after one of Sara’s boots proved shorter then the water depth, Wade considered remaining on the boat with her and hunting more the next morning. But with the high winds in the next day’s forecast, Wade decided to check out an additional bay a couple miles away, so […]
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