By 06.30 we came around “the bend” and passed the southern most boundary of Glacier Bay. Ready to embark the Rangers at 07.00 hrs. So the pilot called the dispatcher, only to be advised, No Rangers today, the boat has broken down. That was not very good news; what to do next. I could go…   read more of “30 August. 2013,…”

It is always an early arrival in Skagway but for once I did not mind as it was a glorious day. No sunrise to enjoy as that all happens behind the mountains but it just went from a very clear night via a beautiful dawn into a great day in the Lynn Canal. We had…   read more of “29 August 2013;…”

We did pay for the nice weather outside Ketchikan. We had hardly dipped our nose into the Pacific Ocean, when a big white woolly blanket covered Stephens Passage. We were sailing in tandem with the Golden Princess who had caught up with us from Ketchikan. She was just over a mile away in a blaze…   read more of “28 August 2013;…”

When you do the same run every week or every 14 days, the whole sequence turns into a sort of fixed script, where only the weather and the fishing boats are the variables. For the rest you can almost predict from minute to minute what will happen, what we have to do and what will…   read more of “27 August 2013;…”

According to plan we arrived at 02.15 at Cape Mudge which is at the entrance of where it gets narrow and which leads to the Seymour Narrows. It was quite busy and the pilots had a lot of work with getting some tugboat captains to comply with the necessary passing arrangements. We were coming up…   read more of “26 August 2013;…”

It turned out to be a real Vancouver day. Nice and sunny with hardly any wind. A perfect day; a Sunday for us but also for the people of Vancouver who in great numbers were parading up and down the promenades of Canada Place. It gave the navigators on watch something different to look at,…   read more of “25 August 2013;…”

After the wind still and sunny weather in Ketchikan you are bound to pay for it ome way or the other and so we did. As soon as we were in Canadian waters it started to blow. Up to wind force 8. Off Vancouver Island a small disturbance had parked itself right in the corner…   read more of “24 August 2013;…”

The season is now so far advanced that the land and sea have slightly warmed up and that” slightly” is just enough to throw things out of balance and let the low clouds come down all the way to the water. Then only a bit of wind can help but we did not have any….   read more of “23 August 2013:…”