Dear family and friends, I’m sitting here in my bunk drinking hot coffee from my special yellow mug. I awoke early, about 0555. I keep it dark in my bunk with a cloth over the overhead hatch because the sun rises so early here in the summer. I noticed an absence of light poking around the […]
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Dear friends and family, It really didn’t take long, two short weeks of solid rain and then the barometer shows a huge rise and the sun returns. The forecast is for several days of this clear sky. Within a couple of hours in this sunny day, the boat is dry. We have been living without
Dear friends and family, A version of this quote about San Francisco has been debatably attributed to Mark Twain. It seems to fit our early start this year to cruising Southeast Alaska. It’s our first week ended and we have had rain every day and very little sun breaks. To explore we need to wear
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Dear friends and family, This is what a transit day on a small boat is like in alaska: There have been many days getting ourselves and the boat ready for travel. We spent weeks doing maintenance and cleaning to have the ship systems ready and working for another season. We spent over $700 at Costco
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Dear friends and family, We are back in Alaska now, getting ready to set off on the summer’s journey. Even though I was excited to get back here to Wrangell, this year it seemed harder to get my head into the sailboat cruising life after the deep immersion into Colombia all winter. I think that
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Dear family and friends, Twice in August I entertained more guests: first, my nephews Kyle and Kalin, who got shut out from a sailing cruise by foul weather, but still got to experience Wrangell and the sights near. We did have a great time though and I learned about the magical exploding duffel bags to
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It seemed a good idea at the time!
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Dear friends and family, We picked up our guest, Carol Hasse ( Hasse to friends) in Ketchikan in the middle of a series of rainstorms that are only in Alaska in the summer. We couldn’t make it to our waiting taxi at the top of the ramp without getting drenched. So we postponed our departure
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Dear friends and family Post Thorne Bay we re-crossed Clarence Strait and toured the Behm Canal in a clockwise direction. A favorite stop was Klu Bay, which is a very protected, but deep anchorage. Our friends Bill and Donna on denalirose.com were also anchored in there so we went to each other’s boat for dinner alternating nights.Liz
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I’ve been here six months
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