Sept 12-14 Hi All, Wednesday, 9/12: John-boy woke up not well at all…..hmmmm….fever, aches, chills….arghhh!!!! How in the heck can you get sick when you have not been around people for a while….glacier ice maybe….ODG say it isn’t so:))) With the help of Advil we made the 17nm run to Blue Mouse Cove, supposedly the … Read More →

Sept 8-11 Hi All, We did leave Sitka on Saturday, Sept 8 at 0700. It was a somewhat rainy day….rain on one side and sunny/partly cloudy on the other side…one of those days:))) We initially had to go through 3 narrows/passes which we did not bother to time…..Olga Strait, Whitestone, and Neva…..we had current from … Read More →

Sept 5-7 Hi All, I felt much, much better the next day after arriving in Sitka…..maybe relaxed more and well rested….while we still have some more cruising this season to go, just being on the inside in protected waters gives the Captain a sense of calm. While I still am concerned about all the mechanical … Read More →

Sept 4 Hi All, YES….WE DID IT!!!!! COMPLETED OUR RING OF FIRE/PACIFIC OCEAN CIRCUMNAVIGATION!!!!! Yep…..me and Johnny Cash are breaking out in Song:))))) We left Sitka on July 17, 2006…..only took us 4,432 days or 12.14 years:)))) Interesting Stats Pacific Ocean Navigation: Total Miles: 49,665nm Total Time: 12.14 years; 4,432 days Total Countries Visited: 49; … Read More →

Sept 4 Hi All, Another very pleasant and boring day….just what you want on an overnighter:))) It’s 3am as I start to write this blog and it struck me that this will be our last overnighter for a while….certainly for this season….whoa!!! It’s not that we object to doing overnighters but they can be tiring … Read More →

Sept 2 Hi All, We left Zakof Bay at 6:30am, Sunday Sept 2 for our 425nm passage across the Gulf of Alaska to Sitka. It didn’t have the best of starts…..the anchor chain fell off the rollers so took us 10 min to get that fixed…..then Kathy noticed a lot of smoke coming out the … Read More →

Aug 31-Sept 1 Hi All, Friday: Woke up to that marvelous sunny sky, although with some patchy fog which soon burnt away….glorious views…..yippee!!! Also, as we went to bed last night we saw a big black bear eating salmon carcasses by the stream…..did not see any salmon in the stream….and we saw another one in … Read More →

Aug 28-30 Hi All, Tuesday: We woke up to bright sunshine after 3 days of dismal weather. We had to wait for the tide to come up to get over the Humpback moraine so I took a dinghy ride around the large cove…..did not see any more black bears but again saw many salmon stacked … Read More →

Aug 25-27 Hi All, Yea we did it…..Prince William Sound….this has been on our bucket list from 12 years ago when we were first in SE Alaska….way out there in the open water….it seemed so daunting at the time….wow, just a very large sense of accomplishment….who knew this boy and gal from Kansas/Nebraska would be … Read More →

Aug 21-24 Hi All, Mt Denali: I forgot to mention in the Homer log, on our seaplane bear tour, we saw the top of Mt Denali from the plane….before 1975 it was called Mt McKinley…its top was peaking up through the distance clouds…over 100 miles away….that is one large mountian, as in the highest mountain … Read More →