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 […]
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We awoke this morning to what seemed to be a bright and sunny day, but going outside revealed that we were surrounded by fog. It seemed so unusual that it could be so bright out while at the same time being socked in by fog. Sara flew her drone above […]
So this is a first! We normally don’t anchor at midnight, but today was a busy day. Someone who shall not be named decided to sleep in until 10 am. We won’t judge, but our day got a late start. We first dropped the dingy and went to shore to […]
We had a wonderful 4th of July celebration in the village of Sand Point. We went into town and everyone was so welcoming and invited us to their homes for dinner. We declined primarily because we had previously prepared a crab dinner feast on the boat. We have two crab […]
According to regulations we hit our daily fishing limit on Black Rockfish. Sara was on fire, each time her lure sank to the bottom she felt a tug then another tug, and pulled up two big Black Rockfish. The average age for Black Rockfish is 15 to 75 years old […]
We made it! Today around noon we pulled into Fox Hole Inlet and anchored. The anchorage approach is straight forward with a wide channel and easy anchoring. Upon arrival we dropped our bigger crab trap that had really stinky Black Rockfish bones from before we left Kodiak, yummy, at least […]
We made it across the Shelikof Straight and we have not stopped motoring along the shores of the Alaska Peninsula. We have thought about stopping, but in 24 hours the winds are forecasted to change and will not be in our favor to move west. During these calm almost glassy […]
We feel so blessed to have our friends Kip and Leigh invite us to their set net site and learn the ways of salmon fishing on Kodiak. A set net is a semi-permanent location where someone can obtain a license to catch salmon fish with a net. The site is […]
Alaska has so much to offer, but today we had to more work for it. We normally are not the type of sailors to just motor into the wind, but today we did! 15 to 23 knots of wind on the nose all day. We suppose having 15 to 20 […]
We set off this morning for our summer cruise along the west side of Kodiak and hopefully onward to the Aleutian Chain. After crazy rain and winds yesterday the sun came out today and warmed everything. The sky was blue the water sparkled, otters fed and played as we cruised […]
We always joke that we’re slow to get going and we like to linger in places well past most sailors have weighed anchor for the next adventure, but this year we have set a new and even slower pace, haha. Sailing slower allows us to soak in more of the […]
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 […]