Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 Whoa! We made it to Prince Rupert! Two weeks after leaving the San Juan Islands. 🙂 We left Hartley Bay this morning at 6am. The cruise to Prince Rupert was almost 80 miles, so we had a long day ahead of us… …a long day in Grenville…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 Kevin went out to pull crab traps while I made breakfast. When he got back to Airship, I asked "Did we get anything?" and he replied "Yes?" with kind of a question mark at the end. I went out to the cockpit to see what…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We slept in this morning, had some breakfast, and then Kevin went to check the crab traps. (Two large keepers, woohoo!) The wind had definitely picked up, so we opted to go through Jackson Narrows and head over to Finlayson Channel, and then poke our…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 Today was the best day of our trip so far. Our alarm went off this morning at 6:30am (I know, but stay with me here.) Time to pull the crab traps! We left the dock and motored over toward the dam, past the sleepy seals.…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 The weather finally cleared up a bit earlier this evening so we went out for a walk around "town." (Some history about Ocean Falls here.) The "bar" is apparently to the left: Our buddies, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I spotted one of the policemen returning…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 This morning we slept in (woohoo, 8am!), did a bunch of work, had some breakfast, and then walked up to the market in Shearwater to get a few things for the crab bisque I plan to make tonight or tomorrow night. It was still gray…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 Our Cape Caution crossing yesterday was nice and calm and uneventful, just like we like it! We weren't planning to cut through the Walker Group, but as we passed by that inviting opening, I decided to cut through after all. It's so pretty in there!!…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 5:00am at Port McNeill Current Weather:Queen Charlotte Strait: Wind lightQueen Charlotte Sound: Wind lightCentral Coast from McInnes Island to Pine Island: Wind light. Seas 1 metre or lessWest Sea Otter Buoy: Waves 0.7 metres at 15 seconds. Wind WSW 6 gusting to 8All the way…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We got up fairly early this morning at Echo Bay, chatted with Pierre a bit more while he showed us some of the work he'd done recently on the rental cabins. We pulled away around 7:30am, saying goodbye until September, when we stop on the way south…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We slept in at Port Harvey this morning…had some coffee, pulled the crab traps (two too small Red Rock crabs) and chatted with George a bit more before leaving the dock and heading toward Echo Bay to see Pierre. It's still early in the season,…
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