Alaska

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We fell in LOVE with Alaska! When leaving Honolulu, July 2017, we did not know where we’d make landfall, but we thought we’d start as far west as we could and work our way east. We thought we would see all we wanted to see in one summer. After sailing 17 days we made it to Dutch Harbor and within one week we decided we wanted to stay. We hope you enjoy our stories as we sail Alaska in all four seasons. 

Back To Kodiak

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 […]

Anchored In A Horeshoe

This must be a real vacation for Sara because she has not had to cook in two days (well maybe breakfast), but no seriously! Wade gets the triple C award (which is better than a three star Michelin rating). As normally a C would be an average grade, but here […]

Spinning Circles

Dawn seems to come later and later. Sunrise today was 8:42 am. We laid in bed and watched a little rays enter through the skylights as we slowly started to wake up. To our surprise, outside we heard a whiney outboard go by us. Sara made a joke to Wade […]

On The Nose 30 knots

Foggy, rainy, and windy this morning. We didn’t even feel like going to shore for a stroll on the beach. Last night before going to bed we noticed our alternator must have stopped charging the batteries while we were underway because shortly after we were anchored our batteries were low […]