We started this wonderful sunny day with heart shape pancakes and then we lifted anchor and motored on this windless day to Table Island. This destination is exposed to theopen Gulf of Alaska to the east and northeast, but winds are out of the northwest so we are fairly comfortable […]
East Kodiak Island
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Today looked like an ideal day for sailing. The sky was blue. The waves were small. A steady wind speed of 15 to 20 knots . . . that is until we would get williwaws from the steep mountain valleys funneling wind from the northwest. Reading the water is one […]
We survived! The NOAA weather forecast could not have been any better. Around 10 am yesterday it was like a wall of wind hit us from the west. Most of the day was 30 to 40 knots of wind, and peaked for a couple hours of sustained 40 to 45 […]
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 […]
Nope not the Alaska Brewery IPA beer called Icy Bay, but our first time to anchor in ice. We knew part of the risk of cruising Kodiak in the winter would be icy bays, but the beautiful sunny and blue bird sky of a crisp Alaskan winter is priceless. So […]
We stowed the dock lines for the first time in over a year! Today we left Kodiak(town) and motor sailed the east side of Kodiak Island for a well protected anchorage in McDonald’s Lagoon. The winds were better yesterday, Thursday, but shortly after a 7 am departure we found ourselves […]