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 […]
Aleutian Chain
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Today we motored in calm winds to Bluefox Bay, not to be confused with Kodiak’s Bluefox Bay on Afognak Island, we are still exploring Atka Island. We were hoping to motor close to shore so we could scout out other bays and to search for Caribou; however, we woke to […]
It has been two days of rain and winds of 30 knots where we have been anchored and we started to wonder of our decision to sail so far west to Atka. But today the wind moderated, we had intermittent sunshine, and no rain. We woke early knowing and hoping […]
The day started off sunny with blue skies, and as we approached Atka we could see Korovin Volcano rising 4,851.7 feet. The volcano is extinct and looked stunning in the glowing sunrise. As we sailed closer to our anchorage the fog and rain moved in. We thought to pick a […]
Both of us had active watches. The wind wanted to die or blow hard. We’d take out sails, put sails away and turn on the engine all night. The wind would shift from nearly in front of us to nearly behind us, so the sails needing sheeted out and trimmed […]
By 9:00 am we had both traps on deck and headed west to explore more of the Aleutian Chain. We caught two shrimp, but all our crabs were eaten by one octopus. This invading octopus is now in our freezer for to be later eaten by us. As we rounded […]