Planning our route to Kodiak took a few considerations to time our arrival before sunset at 7:21 pm. The overall voyage from Missak Bay, Alaska Peninsula to St. Paul Marina, Kodiak Island is approximately 73 nautical miles. If you wanted to guess our arrival time off the average speed of […]
Summer 2019
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Yesterday morning had a crisp chill in the air and the temperature in the morning was around 40 degrees. We haven’t harvested the garden yet, so we were a little worried about the plants wilting. As the sun came up it warmed the cockpit to 80 degrees. In the cockpit […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dawn seems to come later and later. Sunrise today was 8:42 am. We laid in bed and watched a little rays enter through the skylights as we slowly started to wake up. To our surprise, outside we heard a whiney outboard go by us. Sara made a joke to Wade […]
Or perhaps instead this blog post could be entitled Moo-burg (like hamburger) or Moo Town, Cow Town, well you may be getting the idea that there are cows around our anchorage this evening. Yes, we have struck beef, not gold, in this anchorage outside an abandoned gold mining town that […]
Foggy, rainy, and windy this morning. We didn’t even feel like going to shore for a stroll on the beach. Last night before going to bed we noticed our alternator must have stopped charging the batteries while we were underway because shortly after we were anchored our batteries were low […]
Yesterday we lost pressure to our fresh water lines. We checked the head and galley faucets nothing was leaking. We switched water tanks thinking maybe one of the water tanks had a vacuum, but still the pressure was lost. We would flip on and off the breaker to the water […]
Yesterday we spent anchored in English Bay. We enjoyed beautiful sunny and warm weather with a light breeze. If felt like 65 to 70 degrees outside. We went dinghy fishing for more halibut so we could have two poles in the water, but Wade was the only one to catch […]
A week ago, before the last blow that passed through Dutch Harbor, a couple of police officers stopped by our boat to check on us. They wanted to make sure we were ok, the boat was in good condition, and what our plans were for the winter. The informed us […]