WEEK 5: Petersburg this week! On Monday May 13, we passaged through Zimovia Straight, which we had not previously done. There are a lot of rocks and foul ground in this straight, but navigation markers show the safe route, and it was fine. We got into …
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Cruising SE Alaska 2013 – Week 5
WEEK 5: Petersburg this week! On Monday May 13, we passaged through Zimovia Straight, which we had not previously done. There are a lot of rocks and foul ground in this straight, but navigation markers show the safe route, and it was fine. We got into …
Alaska 2013 – Round Three
Since I have been so delinquent in posting to the blog, Marcia is pitching in. The following post are her notes summarizing our activities week by week. PRE TRIP PREPARATIONS: Provisioning—now this being our third SE Alaska trip, provisioning is bas…
Alaska 2013 – Round Three
Since I have been so delinquent in posting to the blog, Marcia is pitching in. The following post are her notes summarizing our activities week by week. PRE TRIP PREPARATIONS: Provisioning—now this being our third SE Alaska trip, provisioning is bas…
Executing the “Plan”
When we started down the path of regular summer cruising in Alaska, we concluded that owning a home in the Pacific NW had more negatives than positives. After considerable time, effort and money on deferred maintenance and enhancements, in December 201…
Executing the “Plan”
When we started down the path of regular summer cruising in Alaska, we concluded that owning a home in the Pacific NW had more negatives than positives. After considerable time, effort and money on deferred maintenance and enhancements, in December 201…
Fall 2012 Cruising
One of my pet peeves about cruising blogs is infrequent updates. In the future I will have to be less peevish and more tolerant when reading someone’s blog that hasn’t been updated in six months. My last entry (also a roll-up) recounted our life t…
April-August Roll-Up
Before it gets even more embarrassingly tardy, I need to update our activities over the last five months. First, no cruising with the exception of a 5-day jaunt to Anacortes in May to attend Trawlerfest. Our big activity has been to first get our…
Metal Boat Festival Presentation
The Metal Boat Society has an annual festival and this year we were asked to present on our experiences of having Alpenglow built. Here is a link to the PDF visuals we used to give structure to our presentation.
A Change in Scenery
Up until recently, we have been wintering the boat (i.e., the September through May we aren’t cruising) on Lake Union. That site was convenient from our house, an 8 or 9 mile drive, but noisy and dirty (it was almost directly underneath the I-5 bridg…
