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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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