Happy Birthday Wade! Yesterday we motored and sailed eight hours from Alpine Cove to Olga Bay. The Olga Narrows were an interesting channel that snaked between Moser Bay and Olga Bay. The slowest we we experienced was 3 knots at the skinniest part of the narrows, but the wild life […]
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We hid away in our little cove fully protected from the flag (50 knots) of wind predicted, or so we thought! The US Coast Pilot 9 stated Alpine Cove was “An excellent anchorage near the entrance in 12 to 15 fathoms, mud bottom, and sheltered from all winds and seas.” […]
Last night was a little bumpy as the heavy currents whipped past the boat causing us to bounce. We could hear the chain rub against rock and the squelch from the VHF kept making noise. Sara got up to check our position and make sure we had not drift, thankful […]
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 […]
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