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Saturday – We opted to leave our nice calm spot in Smuggler Cove this morning and go south down the Strait of Georgia rather than waiting for tomorrow, even though we knew there was a chance it would be bumpy. The forecasted wind (15-20kts except near Vancouver Island 25kts) would be from the NW, which means mainly behind us, but still with a long fetch where the waves could build. Turns out the waves were more on our beam than we’d hoped, so we ended up changing our direction for a while more to port, so that later we could turn 90 degrees to starboard and slam into it for a as we made our way over to the Vancouver Island side of the strait. Fun stuff. We saw whale spouts and dolphins and not a lot of other traffic — a couple of ferries and a handful of sailboats in a race heading south from Secret Cove to Silva Bay. The sailboats had to be loving it!! (Though we did hear two man overboard calls from sailboats to the Coast Guard — one a false alarm and one not — all people recovered, so we’re assuming it might have been some rough sailing!)
We cruised 52nm to Irish Bay at Saturna Island, right next to Winter Cove, which is where I think we stopped last year before returning home. It’s a little open, but there’s no wind and we might have a nice (albeit smoky/hazy) sunset view from here.
Update: No sunset vibes much at all. Just kind of a gray-orange haze. Oh well.
Sunday: We headed back into the U.S. (cleared easily with the CBP app and a phone call from the Anacortes office), and then on to our slip in LaConner.
Seals on a sandbar as we entered Swinomish ChannelWe got in around 1:30pm and thought we’d do some of the boat unloading and cleaning, stay the night, and then drive back to Portland on Monday, but we had most of the stuff besides the freezer, fridge, and our clothes done by 3pm and then thought “why are we waiting, let’s just finish and go!” and so we did. We left LaConner around 5, and including a stop for some dinner we got home just before 10pm. It’s nice to be home!
Oh, and Kevin started putting together fishing videos…using the 360 cam on a telescoping pole (same way he recorded the dolphins on the bow) and here’s the first one (there will be three…he didn’t get an early start this summer, but next summer, watch out!) He says about these: “Fish with me aboard my 11-foot inflatable RIB on the Inside Passage of Alaska and British Columbia. We may catch something, or we may not. It’s real fishing.”
Thanks for following along with us this summer! We’re hoping to get back up this fall and winter for some boat projects, which we’ll of course share with you…and it’s been too long since we hiked around Sucia Island, so we hope to do that too!
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We left Kent Inlet on Thursday morning as the fog was clearing…another beautiful day so far!
Morning light as we left Kent InletWe cruised a slightly longer day (39nm) to Rescue Bay, where we put a couple crab traps down.
A little later, we saw a green-hulled Selene approaching from Jackson Narrows…could it be Scott on Impulse? Yes it could! Awesome! So we chatted with him and his friend Tracy and made a plan to cruise together for a couple days.
Airship at anchor in Rescue BayAirship at anchor in Rescue BayImpulse at anchor in Rescue BayRescue Bay from the airThese shots are looking back west up Jackson Narrows:
And here’s a video Kevin made…Rescue Bay and Jackson Narrows:
Beautiful evening! 70 degrees and mostly clear. We had rockfish tacos for dinner!
Friday: In the morning we had one big male Dungeness keeper (and a few females, and a helmet crab). We pulled anchor around 8am and headed for a new-to-us anchorage we thought we’d stop at before Shearwater — Tro0p Narrows (in Troup Passage, which seems like perhaps that’s a typo and they’re both spelled Troup…uncertain). Anyway, supposed to be good crabbing there!
On our way past Oscar Passage we spotted a couple nearby humpbacks (and several farther west in the passage).
I managed to get a shot of each of the two flukes and got some IDs via happywhale.com:
Female humpback called Sunka-Tanka aka Pulama, ID SEAK-5032, first spotted in Alaska in September 2008Unnamed humpback, sex unknown, ID SEAK-UASE-NSW-20080425-1-013, first spotted in Hawaii in February 2022Always fun to see humpbacks, and fun to have the new Happy Whale superpower for identifying them when possible!
As we continued, we got into some pretty heavy fog. So much for the scenery!
We had a knot and a half against us in Perceval Narrows, but very little swell coming into Seaforth Channel. The fog eventually cleared and the last half of our cruise was beautiful and sunny. We pulled into the Troup Narrows anchorage and immediately noticed a big CRAB CLOSURE sign on shore. Well, bummer. Every single review of this place talked about how great crabbing is here, and we were really hoping to get a few more, but I guess not in the cards. We’ve got one big one from this morning that I’ll do something yum with.
I’m going to make a separate post about Troup Narrows (slight spoiler: SO many photos of really cool stuff!)
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We enjoyed two full days of bears (the ones I posted in the last post), warm weather and sun, jellyfish, two keeper crabs, and one nice silver salmon while in Pavlof Harbor.
The first night there were only three boats, but the second night–TEN! It was very crowded, and people anchored too close and had to move, and there was a group of folks up at the bear viewing spot most of the day trying to snag salmon…at one point we heard a gunshot and have to assume one of the bears was too close and warranted (?!?!?) a warning shot, but it seems to us that the groups of bear-watching people with guides we normally see at Pavlof never have needed to do that, so I’m gonna guess it was an issue on the part of the humans not paying attention to where they and their stuff (quite a few coolers and other things) were, and where the bears were, but I don’t really know. I just know I’m glad we weren’t up there while all the casting and snagging and shooting was going on.
Future crab enchiladasThis morning we left around 6:30am and headed south for Ell Cove on Baranof Island. Right out in Freshwater Bay there were two humpbacks cruising along the surface.
Humpback spout in the morning sunlightChatham was mostly calm and the weather was perfect. As we neared Ell Cove, there was one humpback fin-slapping and breaching over and over again out in the strait.
We’re the only ones in Ell Cove at the moment, and it’s calm, calm, calm. And warm.
Definitely a spot for some aerials, but it’s a little late for the best light, so we’ll probably try again tomorrow. Friends Tom and Tish on Alaska Quest came in between when I said we were the only ones here and when we flew the drone, so yay! We’re finally in the same anchorage together so here they are in this shot too!
We mayh stay two nights here, or we may head down to Red Bluff. It’s so nice not to have a schedule for a week or so!
We left Ketchikan on Thursday morning after topping off all of the fuels (diesel, propane, dinghy gas) and headed for…well, we weren’t quite sure where yet!
See you next summer, Ketchikan!Got a nice view of Artefact on our way out of Tongass NarrowsWe’ve got a good window for crossing Dixon Entrance on Friday or Saturday, so we considered Foggy Bay, Judd Bay (on Duke Island), or somewhere we had not been before, and the new place won: Kah Shakes Cove, just north of Foggy Bay. The entrance to the cove is rocky and not well charted, so we were careful to watch our sonar, depth, chart plotter, and also the actual visible rocks with our eyes. We saw 17ft at the shallowest (on an 8ft tide). We dropped the anchor and then launched the dinghy to go explore further.
There’s a small stream that empties out into the bay where we are anchored (a salmon stream, clearly, since there are fish jumping everywhere), and then further around the corner, a much longer waterway with several small falls that enters the cove from Kah Shakes Lake.
This was as far as we could go up the stream toward Kah Shakes LakeMergansers in the coveWe had a little precipitation in the afternoon, which gave us this full rainbow to the south.
Rainbow in Kah Shakes CoveThe sunset sky was a beauty!!
After looking at the weather this morning, today (Friday) looked fine for crossing Dixon, but Saturday looked even better, so we opted to stay another night on the hook here in Kah Shakes Cove. It’s quiet, there are no other boats, and it’s nice just to stay put and enjoy our time together here before leaving Alaska.
Kevin took the Mavic up for some aerial photos, which are helpful for seeing the whole of this place. Also, the tide was pretty low…perfect time to get an overhead shot of the entrance with most of the rocks exposed or visible!
Kah Shakes Cove, looking north into Revillagigedo ChannelAirship at anchor in Kah Shakes CoveThe waterway leading to Kah Shakes LakeThe rocky entrance to Kah Shakes CoveRocky entrance to Kah Shakes Cove from straight overheadEntrance to Kah Shakes Cove, Airship anchored back in, waterway to Kah Shakes Lake on the leftLooking south toward Foggy Bay and Dixon EntranceMore rocky islets around the shorelineKah Shakes CoveKah Shakes CoveNice view of the path to Kah Shakes LakeKah Shakes Cove anchorage looking north into Revillagigedo Channel, zoomed out a bitKevin is out fishing now (lots of catching, it sounds like!) so we’ll likely be having fresh fish for dinner.
Update:
This is such a beautiful spot. Foggy Bay is great (and maybe an hour or so further along to the south), but I’m sure it’s quite full considering the weather window and timing for Dixon, and it’s nice to have this place to ourselves. We’ll leave at first light in the morning and head for Prince Rupert (about 56nm).
We woke in Redfish Bay this morning to a thick marine layer of gray, but no big deal because it had already started burning off by the time we left around 8am.
Dinner last night: king salmon caught by Dan, half an artichoke with aioli dipping sauce, and spinach and ricotta ravioli with tomato/shallot/garlic sauce.Leaving the anchorage at Redfish Bay this morning…going through Second Narrows.Marine layer starting to burn offBlue skies, clouds, and rugged coastlineThe shore down here on the south end of the island is quite dramaticIt was even calmer outside than it was yesterday…very minor swells and just a tiny bit of wind chop.
Boat (kinda tough to see) on the right side of this shot is FortunateTurning the corner into Puffin BayToday’s trip was under 10nm, so a short hop to check out a new spot.
Puffin Point on the way into Puffin BayInside Puffin BayAt the head of Puffin Bay, view from Airship at anchorThis place is gorgeous!! We anchored/rafted in about 30 feet and then guess what happened? Kevin and Dan went out to fish. After they returned, Kevin got some cool aerial shots of the anchorage:
Airship and Fortunate rafted in Puffin BayPuffin Bay, looking southThis is just outside Puffin Bay, facing east across the narrow spot that divides Puffin Bay Inlet with Lucy Inlet on the other side of Baranof IslandFacing west out to the oceanPuffin Bay, with the entrance/exit to the North Pacific OceanPuffin Bay anchorage from straight overheadThis is the little lake that feeds the stream that enters into Puffin BayPuffin Bay anchorage, facing northWe definitely have more wind inside the anchorage (due to the williwaws) than there is outside the anchorage…it just funnels down these narrow gorges, but it’s not bad at all and the most we are seeing is about 16 knot gusts. Totally worth it…it’s stunning in here! (No puffins, however.)
This place is like a postcard of Alaska.Late in the afternoon we finally got our bear on shore…a brown bear pretty focused on sedge grass, and just for about 10 minutes before it went back into the trees.
Eileen is fixing mushroom and asparagus risotto tonight (the proper way, by stirring!) and we’ll grill up more of the king salmon caught by Dan, with the addition of a few sautéed spot prawns.
Tomorrow we’ll go around Cape Ommaney (the bottom tip of Baranof Island)…weather still looks great for that. Not sure yet where we’ll stop tomorrow…we’re wingin’ it!
Evening light in Puffin Bay before we headed to bed.Also, the williwaws settled down for the evening and it was super calm in the bay!
We pulled anchor and left Redoubt Bay this morning around 8am.
Is this what they call a buttermilk sky?Conditions on the outside were quite calm, with a gentle swell, and I should have taken more photos of the rugged coastline, but I didn’t. Tomorrow.
Airship and Fortunate heading into Scow BayFortunate dropping the hook at the head of Scow BayHere’s today’s route from Redoubt Bay to Scow Bay:
And here’s a close up so you can see how skinny the entrance is to Scow Bay:
And an overall so you get a feel for how far down the west side of Baranof we are at the moment:
After we were anchored/rafted, Kevin and Dan took the dinghies back outside to do some fishing.
Coastline outside our anchorageDan in his skiff, fishingKevin caught but did not keep some number of rockfish, a few greenling, and a too small ling cod. Dan caught a coho and a king (and generously shared a nice piece of king with us!)
Here are some drone shots of the anchorage and surrounding area. Just beautiful!
Airship and Fortunate rafted in Scow BayYou can see in this next shot how skinny the entrance to Scow Bay is…keep to starboard and avoid the kelp and you’re good!
Airship and Fortunate rafted in Scow BayAirship and Fortunate rafted in Scow BayAirship and Fortunate rafted in Scow Bay
Gorgeous day!!
Just before dinner Kevin and I took the dinghy out to poke around in some of the little hidey holes…nothing too exciting, but pretty!
Finally, a good weather window lined up with our plans to get on the outside of Baranof Island for a few days!
We got up at 5am in Baby Bear to transit Sergius Narrows near the 5:30am slack, which meant (a) we got into Sitka before 9am, and (b) we were tired, so immediately after getting settled in our slip, we took a nap.
We’d been in touch with friends Dan and Eileen on their Nordic Tug 37 Fortunate, and they too were planning to go down the outside, so we decided to do some of it together!
Here’s what we did last night with some of the Dungeness crab bounty we have…crab and spinach risotto. Super delicious. I cheat and make the risotto in the Instant Pot (apologies, Tom Colicchio, but it works pretty well and is so much easier that all that stirring!)
Crab and spinach risottoLate evening light in Eliason Harbor, Sitka, taken from the pilothouse of Airship:
We left Sitka Tuesday morning around 7:30am on Tuesday and headed for Redoubt Bay. I took a few photos as we headed south past town.
Conditions in Sitka Sound were calm with just a very slight swell…all the prep I did in the stuffing towels around the things that make blammy sounds in the galley paid off (like taking an umbrella with you so it won’t rain…same idea).
We’re anchored in Redoubt Bay with Fortunate rafted to us, and Dan and Kevin are out fishing for sockeye. Sockeye typically don’t bite on lures, so they’re using a method called “flossing” where you try to get your line in their mouths as they open them and then you set the hook in the cheek. (You’re not allowed to snag them past a certain point in the bay.) Apparently it requires quite a bit of patience, which luckily they both have. Some of the Alaskan residents are here with small gill nets (that works a bit faster) but there are quite a few boats over by the waterfall/fish weir trying their luck with the other method. Eileen is working on a quilt, and I’m going to break out my painting supplies and the small pieces I brought to work on.
View toward the head of the bay from Airship at anchorZoomed in a little….Zoomed in a little more, you can see the boats anchored and folks are casting, and over by shore there are a couple guys with dip nets. Busy place!Kevin took these of Dan catching one of his many fish:
Kevin caught one big guy, and Dan had 5 or 6 good ones!
We already thawed a little beef tenderloin to top with the last of our fresh crab and asparagus for dinner tonight, so we vacuum sealed the sockeye for future meals!
After the guys returned from fishing, Kevin took the drone up for some aerials.
Airship and Fortunate rafted in Redoubt BayRedoubt Bay facing the entrance to Redoubt LakeRedoubt Bay looking out toward Sitka SoundThe head of Redoubt Bay looking toward Redoubt LakeThe head of Redoubt Bay looking into Redoubt Lake (Airship and Fortunate on the right)The head of Redoubt Bay looking into Redoubt Lake (Airship and Fortunate on the right)Straight down over the head of the bay and the entrance to Redoubt LakeOver the fish weir looking from Redoubt Lake into the head of the bay (Airship and Fortunate at the top left)Redoubt Lake looking eastRedoubt Lake looking westRedoubt Bay facing Sitka Sound (the cliff on the right is super tall!)So fun to see from up high what surrounds us!
And then while we were sitting out on our back deck having a little happy hour and chatting with Dan and Eileen, a sow and two (older) cubs came scrambling along the rocky shoreline about 50 feet from our boats!!
Sow with two cubs in Redoubt BaySow with two cubs in Redoubt BayMama bear looks soft and fuzzyCub 1Cub 2Cub 2, looking right at usMama stops to snack on the grassTomorrow we’ll head outside and around to Scow Bay. Very happy about the weather and that we’re getting to do this leg outside…finally!
We spent a week or so in Juneau after the flotilla ended…visiting with friends and family (Laura’s brother Jason flew down from Anchorage with a friend for a visit), and made good use of the rental car we reserved (used the Turo app for the first time…will definitely do that again!)
Mendenhall GlacierWe took a couple trips to Western Auto & Marine, Jerry’s Meats & Seafood (smoked salmon, double smoked bacon, salmon and crab dip), and also to the Sand Bar & Grill for the BEST fresh Alaskan Halibut fish & chips. I should have taken a photo of the beautiful fish and chips, but here’s one of the wall decor instead:
Decor at the Sand Bar & GrillHarris Harbor was full-ish when we arrived, but after a few days there were many empty slips. This is the slip next to Airship, full of sticks and greenery that wandered in with the tide.
Our friend Brian Peterman connected us with Ed Page, the founder of the Marine Exchange of Alaska, in the building just up from our slip in the harbor, which was super interesting and warrants a separate post. But real quick, for those of you who don’t know about MEAK, definitely check out their website, specifically take a look at all their real time weather reporting stations for SE Alaska. Super helpful!
Marine Exchange of AlaskaLeaving Juneau, passing the old pump house ruins on Douglas IslandOnce on the backside of Douglas Island, we started scanning the VHF channels for anything interesting, and settled on the channel the whale watching boats were using. There were SO MANY whale watching boats out, and we saw a few humpbacks, but the real excitement seemed to be close to shore near Middle Point on Douglas Island, where there was a pod of orcas having a bit of fun (and probably lunch) with some sea lions. We actually heard a gal from one of the whale watching boats call someone on a different boat to tell him a sea lion was on his swim step and an orca was coming in between his two outboards trying to get at it….he hadn’t seen what was going on and said something like “Wow. I don’t even know what to do with that information!” She said she’d taken photos and would send them to him. Wish we could have seen that, but we were already quite a ways past where they were. We continued to hear more boats calling back and forth asking if the orcas were still in “carnage mode.” We’ve seen it before, and it’s interesting, but not pretty.
Whale watching boats in Saginaw ChannelWe were originally thinking we’d go to Swanson or Couverden, but the wind was blowing pretty heavy over there so we changed plan and went into Funter Bay. It was still a bit choppy, which happens frequently in Funter…you think you should be protected from a west wind, but it manages to wrap around and get you anyway.
Coot Cove in Funter BayWe decided to stay another night in Funter Bay and do some fishing and crabbing after breakfast, which was sourdough french toast, double smoked bacon from Jerry’s, and blueberries. Yum!
Julie and David on Dog Star were leaving Excursion Inlet (after catching four coho, yay the fish are in!) and decided to come join us. They rafted to Airship and we had some fun visiting and cooking together. They gifted us a filet from one of the salmon they caught, and I made some bang bang sauce, asparagus, and rice to go with it. This sauce is SO GOOD.
Bang Bang Sauce(makes about a cup)
½ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup Thai sweet chili sauce
1 teaspoon Sriracha, or more
chives, for garnish
The first recipe I found has honey in it, but I left it out because it’s sweet enough without it. Another recipe had a teaspoon of rice vinegar in addition to the above, which I might try next time. But it’s great, and probably good with crab or shrimp as well.
Bang bang salmon with asparagus and riceSunset at Funter BayIn the morning we had a couple of keeper Dungeness in our traps. Finally! More crab! Kevin went out fishing for a few hours and came back with a couple of coho…he was pretty psyched about that.
I used the rest of the bang bang sauce by mixing it up with some fresh crab meat, some chopped cilantro and scallions, and then spreading that on a piece of sourdough toast….super yum!! I forgot to take a photo, but Julie had me covered with this one she took.
Crab salad on sourdough toastWhile rafted/at anchor David put out a halibut line and not too long later he had himself a perfect sized halibut — that he pulled in wearing slippers. Awesome. Guess what’s for dinner?
David (wearing slippers) with the halibut he just pulled inJulie used one of the halibut filets and made One Pan Roasted Fish with Cherry Tomatoes — we can’t seem to stop making this recipe every time we have halibut…SUCH a great flavor combination. I sautéed some spinach and zucchini to go with the halibut and we had a delicious dinner! The forecast for aurora borealis was high for our area, so I got up every hour or so after it got dark to take a look toward the north, but it just didn’t seem like it was ever dark enough, and we never saw ’em.
The next morning David and Julie de-rafted around 7am and headed back to Juneau to pick up their son. I slept in and woke up to two cleaned crabs in the sink and no sign of Kevin or the dinghy. I wonder where he could be! Pretty soon, he returned to Airship with another beautiful coho. We are rich with fresh seafood right now!
We headed south late morning for another visit to Pavlof Harbor, which is where we are now. There were two boats anchored in here when we arrived, a 60-something foot Canadian-flagged Outer Reef, and a Ranger Tug called Left Bank…whose owner and his grandson came over in their dinghy for a chat…super nice folks who knew of us from the blog, etc. By dinner time there were maybe 7 or 8 more boats, and the owner of the Outer Reef called at least one of them on the radio to warn them not to anchor too close to him because he had 350 feet of chain out. 350 FEET?? It’s only 40-50 feet deep where he anchored (in the best spot with the view of the falls/fish ladder)…that’s a ridiculous amount of scope to have out in a crowded anchorage in calm conditions. Maybe he’s originally from the east coast…or someone scared him with the 7:1 scope “rule.”
After dinner we spotted a brown bear on the shore opposite the falls.
This morning, we were the only ones left here, so Kevin took the drone up for some gorgeous aerials.
Another beautiful day in a beautiful place! We think Dog Star may join us again today, so we opted to stay another night!
After leaving Red Bluff Bay we cruised over toward the north end of Rocky Pass and anchored in a spot called Stedman Bay. It’s shallow and quiet and we saw no other boats. We dinghied around a bit and saw deer, a large group of harbor seals hauled out on a nearby spit, and some otters. We had a nice dinner of fresh spot prawns dipped in garlic butter, a ... Read more
The flotilla left the Ruth Island anchorage in Thomas Bay fairly early this morning for our long cruise to Cannery Cove in Pybus Bay – on Admiralty Island. Cannery Cove is a stunning anchorage – set in a giant bowl of snowcapped peaks. We often see bears, eagles, seals, sea lions, and more – and frequently catch crab, shrimp, halibut, and rockfish in and around the bay. Admiralty Island is ... Read more
After spending a handful of days in Juneau, we left and headed for Sitka, where we docked Airship for two whole weeks! Kevin had a work thing going on that we needed reliable internet for (and an airport for a trip to San Jose) and we’d already been in Juneau for a handful of days, so a change of scenery would be nice. We spent some more time wandering around ... Read more
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Sometimes, when on a flotilla, it’s fun to take a commercial fishing charter from a port where fishing is good and expert guides are available. You get to see what gear an expert professional fisher-person uses, what techniques they apply to maximize the catch for their clients, and some of the current local hotspots for bagging fish. Occasionally, everyone has a bad experience with a business. Usually, we all just ... Read more
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In the morning after a bit more of an internet fix and a few more fishing items purchased, the boats left the marina. The staff puts what’s left after fish-cleaning operations out on the breakwater for the birds, and these young eagles were having breakfast as we motored past. It was foggy in the early morning, but by the time we left the marina it had started to clear, and ... Read more
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Today we stayed put at Nuchatlitz! This morning’s change in wind direction brought smoke from the nearby wildfires our way, and our anchorage smelled a bit like last night’s campfire. It did make for a few moody sunrise photos, however. Ralph and Jeanette, Vince, and Kevin and Laura took Airship out for a little salmon fishing, while others explored the anchorage and nearby islands by dinghy. A few too-small chinooks ... Read more
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We left Joe’s Bay around 10:00 a.m. and cruised the very short distance (less than 4nm) over to Effingham Bay. Most of our flotilla went right in and anchored, while Airship went out to Meares Bluff to do a little fishing. Meares Bluff is right around the corner from the anchorage, and since there were quite a few sport fishing boats with lines in the water, there was at least ... Read more
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Nuchatlitz was super foggy this morning as the group made their way through the narrow, winding exit. Eventually (once we were pretty far up Tahsis Inlet) the fog cleared! The entrance to the Westview Marina & Lodge is a little tricky if you don’t know what you’re looking for. You make a 180 degree turn around this first log breakwater, then another 180 degree turn around that second one to get ... Read more
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We left Point Baker and headed toward Wrangell, stopping to fish for halibut around Vank and Sokolof Islands in the afternoon. We didn’t catch anything and thought we’d fish again the next morning, so we anchored for the night in a little bight on the SE corner of Sokolof Island — a decent anchorage with a distant view of Wrangell. In the evening we saw a small brown bear on ... Read more
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Yesterday (Saturday) we cruised from Trap Bay in Tenakee Inlet up into Icy Strait and around to Hoonah. We got in on the later side, so we just hung out and had dinner aboard. Dan cooked up some chicken souvlaki and a greek salad for dinner, and I brought over kimchi pancakes with a spicy gochujang dipping sauce (recipe below). In the morning, we headed up to have breakfast at ... Read more
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