Kodiak

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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 […]

Sailing Williwaw’s

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 […]

Kelp Let Down

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 […]

Alitak Cannery Lazy Bay

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 […]

Camp Cove Kodiak

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 […]