The additional monitoring sensors I installed in our NMEA2000 system this winter has provided a wealth of data. One tidbit was the temperature of the two AC transformers (isolation and step-down) in our electrical system. I was surprised at the the inc…
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Keeping Track of Things
The largest project on the boat this winter has been to take advantage of the NMEA2000 backbone running through our boat and increase the level of system monitoring that we do. When Seahorse Marine built our boat a couple of years ago, we had them in…
The Price of Ice
Last summer while visiting Tracy Arm with our friends the Crowders, we did a tour down to the snout of the North Sawyer Glacier (Crowder visit). As we were viewing the glacier a nice chunk fell off. We were about a half mile away so I wasn’t worrie…
2011 Anchorages and Moorages
Below is a map of all of our stops we made along the way this year. (The blue marks for the stops may not show up in Internet Explorer, try another browser like Firefox or Chrome) View 2011 Alaska Cruise in a larger map
September 17-20 – The Finish Line
To close out our 2011 cruise on the morning of September 17 we headed south down Rosario Strait, along the west shore of Whidbey Island and into Admiralty Inlet. There is lots of commercial traffic in that area, so you venture into the vessel traffic l…
September 13-16 – Home Stretch
The winds that blew us onto the dock in Ganges quieted down overnight and our departure on the morning of September 13 was very uneventful. We motored down Saanich Inlet and entered the calm protected waters of Tod Inlet. After lunch we paddled our k…
September 4-12 – Broughtons to the Gulf Islands (Sun at Last!!!)
Boy, a little blue sky, warm sun and calm winds can really improve a cruiser’s disposition. This leg has had some of the most relaxing cruising we’ve ever done. When we left Pierre’s at Echo Bay on September 4, we weren’t done with the Brought…
September 1-3 – The Broughtons
The Broughtons are a popular cruising area east of Port McNeill at the junction of Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait. It has many protected channels, bays, coves and small marinas. On account of it being north of Seymour Narrows and its cousi…
August 27–30 -Prince Rupert to Port McNeill (aka “Now its time to slow down”)
It seemed as though we’ve repeated the frenetic pace of the northbound trip in our southbound journey. We are now docked in Port McNeill after covering the 295 miles from Prince Rupert in four days. The last three days were all nearly 12 hours underw…
August 25-26 – Thorne Bay to Prince Rupert (aka “Escape from Alaska”)
The weather on Thursday, August 25 was a 180 degree change from the recent weather. We left before dawn to calm winds and flat seas in Clarence Strait. We decided to take as much advantage of it as possible by going as far as we could. We blew by Ket…
