After visiting the Iditarod start in Anchorage last month, I just must see the finish-line (shown here) so I call up my good friend Fred in Haines and we meet in Juneau for an exciting trip to Nome. With the price of gold skyrocketing, miners are pouring into Nome to...
It’s time to warm up again–February is always a good time to consider alternative lifestyles in Hawaii and our good friends in Kona invite us down. There is now a direct Alaska Air flight from B’ham to Hono-town (hate this place) but we hop over to...
Remember the rowboat race this summer? Of course you do. Well, I foolishly purchased three half-completed Norwegian faerings (traditional rowboats) last year and it’s time to get down to business and fix these up. You can see one of three faerings...
Every year, we host a Rainforest Festival here in Petersburg and one of the events this year was a tour by Breakaway Adventure Tours of the Le Conte Glacier which is a tidal glacier. To get you oriented here’s a NE Google view–the yellow line is the...
So as not to let down our most ardent fans–here is the next chapter in the refit of this 112 year old tug…. OK–we’ve painted the upper and lower house, plus hauled out on the marine rail and cleaned & painted the hull. So I’m now...
Now it’s time to haul the Katahdin out of the water and clean the hull. I have to tow her with our skiff and can do this only at high slack. Problem is, that everyone else moves around at high slack–including this skiff, two seaplanes, a fuel barge and a...
