Airship Goes to Alaska Since Tuesday (sunny!!!) it's been pretty rainy here in Juneau, so we've been focused on work, and fixing things that need fixing. Here's our Fix-It list: 1. The carburetor on our outboard motor This outboard has never been right in the head. It's a Mercury 6HP…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Today was sunny!! Finally! We got a ton of work done this morning and then decided to take advantage of the sunny day in Juneau and get out a bit more. We braved the hoards of cruiseshippers and got ourselves a ticket to ride the Mt.…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Yesterday we decided to rent a car so we could do a little sightseeing and shopping, and so that we'd have a convenient way to take Christy and Mijonet to the airport on Monday. It was a rainy day, so we suited up and walked downtown…
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Airship Goes to Alaska We left our little cove inside Tracy Arm and cruised the 25 miles or so to South Sawyer glacier. There was far less ice to dodge than when we were here before. Far less, and far less other boat traffic as well. Passing a seal on…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Today we left Pybus Bay and headed over to anchor in the Tracy Arm anchorage so we'd be ready to head for the glaciers in the morning. The weather was gray and rainy, and just outside of Windham Bay we noticed some dark vertical things and…
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Airship Goes to Alaska We left Warm Springs Bay this morning around 8am and I made breakfast underway: a bed of wilted spinach, fresh Dungeness crab, an over easy egg, topped with hollandaise sauce and chives. As I was putting stuff on the table for Christy and Mijonet and Kevin…
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Our new crew (daughter Christy and her 7 year old daughter Mijonet) arrived in Sitka on Friday and we got Mij outfitted with some Xtratufs and a Grundens rain coat and then headed to check out the totems in the Sitka National Historical Park. It was a super rainy day…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Here's what we've been up to for the past couple days: I finished layout for some of next week's articles (since we'll be in the AK boonies once again) Kevin did a whole bunch of client reports, webcast intros, business correspondence, and two consulting gigs with…
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Airship Goes to Alaska The weather! It's STILL like this here in Sitka! Since Tiffani and Deke left on Sunday morning, we've mostly been depressed catching up on work and boat cleaning and laundry and stuff like that. We ordered an oil filter that'll be here tomorrow, so we'll do our…
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Airship Goes to Alaska The official 4th of July fireworks in Sitka happened on Friday night, July 3rd. We had the most perfect spot for fireworks viewing here in the marina. (It actually looks way darker in these photos than it was, because I metered on the light of the…
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