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18/11/2024

Friends are selling their 2007 American Tug 34. Check out the listing here:
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2007-american-tug-34-9595998/

12/09/2024

Well, here is the season finale of my "Fish With Me" video series. If people seem to like them I'll get started much earlier in the season next year and have more (and more varied) episodes to share, like fishing for halibut, Lingcod, sh*****ng, crabbing... We'll see.

Fish with me in 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.

10/09/2024

Ok, here is the second installment of my “Fish With Me” videos from our four-month trip up the Inside Passage to Alaska and back.

Fish with me in 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.

09/09/2024

We're HOME!

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, wh...

08/09/2024

Made a few videos this summer while I was fishing aboard my eleven-foot inflatable RIB on the Inside Passage in Alaska and British Columbia. Here's the first:

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....

07/09/2024

Lund to Smuggler Cove today!

Before leaving Lund this morning, we walked up to Nancy's Bakery for breakfast, bought a loaf of fresh bread to-go, and then stopped in the market for some fresh salad greens and a couple other fresh things we might want in the next couple days before getting back to LaConner. We left around 9am and

06/09/2024

Okay well, today was amazing. There were more dolphins, but today Kevin put the 360 camera on a stick and got right down near water level to film them and got some AMAZING video. So that's in this post. And also, Johnstone and Strait of Georgia were FLAT.

Blenkinsop Bay was calm and beautiful this morning. A tiny bit of fog laying low on the water, but clear besides that. Unfortunately, our timing wasn't great for the current in Johnstone, and we had as much as 3.8kts against us in some places. We expected current against us, just perhaps not quite t...

05/09/2024

What a fantastic day! Long, but awesome.

Skull Cove was shrouded in fog when we woke this morning...no surprise really. We pulled our anchor and slowly motored through the narrow opening. The fog kept us company off and on (mostly on) until we reached Johnstone Strait. Our original plan was 47nm from Skull Cove to Mound Island (about 6.5 h...

04/09/2024

Well, we thought we'd stop overnight at Fury Cove, but instead, we stopped for lunch but then got antsy so we continued on around Cape Caution and stopped for the night at Skull Cove.

We made lunch at Fury Cove, the other two boats left (they maybe had been waiting for the fog to burn off), and after a whole lot of overthinking by me, we decided to get around Cape Caution this afternoon instead of waiting for morning. It could be a little bumpy, but current conditions don't

03/09/2024

Quick stop in Shearwater for veggies (a bust), a bite out at the pub (not a bust), and then on to another new-to-us spot, then on to Fury Cove. Planning to round Cape Caution tomorrow if all goes as planned weather-wise.

We made an overnight stop on Sunday night in Shearwater with hopes of picking up some produce and grabbing a bite out at Fishermans Pub for dinner. We did have dinner at Fishermans, but the produce was a no-go. We got a couple apples, a bag of carrots, and a some green onions that had

01/09/2024

Another new-to-us spot we will most definitely return to. Glad we lucked out with the weather!!

We woke to socked in fog yesterday morning in Troup Narrows, so we decided that since our cruise up Roscoe Inlet promised spectacular scenery, we'd wait for the fog to burn off before heading out. We ended up pulling the anchor around 11am. Roscoe Inlet definitely does not disappoint. Sheer granite....

01/09/2024

Fantastic visit to Troup Narrows anchorage!

So Troup Narrows fully delivered (well, except for the crab closure, but that's fine). As you can see from the spoiler feature photo, we got some fantastic aurora last night. But we'll start earlier in the day. Kevin got some great aerials of the anchorage and surrounds after we arrived and got sett...

27/08/2024

A couple new-to-us anchorages -- always fun!

I set the alarm for 6am this morning, thinking we'd get an early start, but it was still fully dark (oops) at 6am, so we snoozed and left at 7am instead. We had a beautiful cruise down the east side of Campania Island (Squally Channel, not squally today) into Campania Sound and Caamaño Sound before

27/08/2024

We left Alaska and we're now cruising south through northern BC. And also: MORE WHALES. :)

We left Foggy Bay around 6am on Friday and had perhaps the most chill crossing of Dixon Entrance ever. It's possible that due to it being our 18th (!!!) crossing we're a little more chill ourselves, but it was SO so calm and felt quite short! We saw quite a few different groups of whale

23/08/2024

Catching up! V***n Harbor, Ketchikan, Kah Shakes Cove, and Foggy Bay.

After Bradfield Canal, we spent one night in V***n Harbor on our way to Ketchikan. The entrance to V***n Harbor is always a fun transit...we've written posts about it several times before (here's one), but the charts are wrong, and the route that looks best on the charts has only about a foot of wat...

17/08/2024

We cruised up Bradfield Canal yesterday and overnight got four spot prawns and three Dungeness crab. Not bad, but check out the size of this spot prawn! More here:
https://slowboat.com/2024/08/airship-bradfield-canal/

17/08/2024

Sokokof Bay and Berg Bay:

We left Petersburg yesterday morning around 8am. A beautiful, mostly clear, sunny day! We transited Wrangell Narrows riding the current in and then also out...it's fun when the timing works and you get a current boost the whole way through! We stopped and anchored on the east side of Sokolof Bay, a....