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 →
Category Archives: Captain’s Log
Captain’s Log: PWS to Sitka Across the Gulf of Alaska: Day 2
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 →
Captain’s Log: PWS to Sitka Across the Gulf of Alaska: Day 1
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 →
Captain’s Log: Columbia Glacier; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill; Getting Ready to Cross the Gulf of Alaska
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 →
Captain’s Log: 3 Impressive Glaciers in Icy Bay and Dericksen Bay
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 →
Captain’s Log: Hoggs Head, Humpback and Otter Coves, Prince William Sound
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 →
Captain’s Log: Port Chatham, Tonsina and Northwestern Fiord on Kenai Peninsula
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 →
Captain’s Log: Fun in Homer; Dutch Harbor pics and videos posted
Aug 17-20 Hi All, ANNOUNCING….drum roll please…..born August 17, 2019…..Roxanne Hargett Youngblood…..granddaughter #4….ODG we are so blessed with another cute as can be healthy baby!!!! David and Dana texted us throughout the day on Thursday and then into the wee morning hours of the 17th…..such a relief to know all went well for Mom and … Read More →
Captain’s Log: Passage to Homer; Otters in Port Chatham
August 15-16 Hi All, We did leave Kukak finally at 6am on Wednesday 8/15…..yea!!! Beautiful sunrise at about 6:40am. Our course took us past the Hallo Bay (still in Katmai NP on the Alaskan Peninsula….about 25nm NE of Kukak) where we had a good view of the Hallo Glacier coming off Mt Stellar and Mt … Read More →
Captain’s Log: Bears in Geographic Harbor, Riding out a Storm in Kukak Bay
August 7-14 Hi All, I am sitting here in Kukak Bay on Friday, August 10 in Katmai NP starting to write this blog…..I finished it on Tuesday night, Aug 14. It has been somewhat difficult to get back into the cruising mode. We have been cruising nonstop since last January….7+ months….over 900 engine hours, 6600nm…..it … Read More →
