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 […]
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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 […]
The Alitak Cannery located in Lazy Bay is operated by Ocean Beauty a company from Seattle. Without a doubt the cannery is a great stop for cruisers. During the summer Woody is a popular and informative source of the area, the history, and petroglyphs. During the winter the cannery empties […]
We have finally finished processing the deer and Wade scrubbed the cockpit clean! We decided to leave Olga Bay and head back to the cannery. We poured 46 gallon of fuel leaving us one spare 6 gallon jerry can left of diesel. The cannery said before they would provide us […]
Different than the rocky east side, the west side of Olga Bay has low lying hills and grass. We have enjoyed these last several days of walking the miles of beach and hiking deer trails. For days we hiked deer trails where ever they took us. Up 500 feet to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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