Wednesday proved to be a busy, challenging, tiring, edifying, and overall wonderful day! We motored out of Kina Cove after … Continue reading Kasaan Carvers

Tuesday’s trip took Braesail and her crew through showers, mist, low clouds, high wind, and “lumpy” seas to Kina Cove … Continue reading Blowing into Kina Cove

Braesail untied and motored away from her companion vessel, Third Watch, on Friday, August 12, at around 9 am with … Continue reading “Otterly” darling!

A delicious soak in a big tub of hot, slightly sulfurous, mineral spring water in a small wood-paneled room with … Continue reading A hot time in the old tub tonight!

It’s now a sunny Wednesday afternoon and Braesail is anchored near Angoon, a village of about 500 year-round residents on … Continue reading Whale fountains!

It’s now the evening of Sunday, August 7, and we are still in Juneau. We spent Saturday catching up on … Continue reading Charging our battery of batteries

Our second night at the Westmark Inn was very restful and very welcome after the terrific Thursday we enjoyed in … Continue reading Stormy seas south from Skagway (and photos from Thursday’s train trip)

Two consecutive lovely, sunny, rain-free days–WOW! Here in flower-bedecked (the city has been designated “The Garden City of Alaska”), “Wild-West”-themed … Continue reading Almost summery in Skagway

This morning (Wednesday, August 3), we rose at 5:20 am in order to meet the Lyft ride we had requested … Continue reading . . . and let down