Airship Goes to Alaska We left Baby Bear Bay around 9:30am, timing it to get to Sergius Narrows about a half an hour before slack tide. We slowed up and checked conditions through the binocs and it looked fine so we headed through with no issues. Out past these islands…the Gulf…
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Airship Goes to Alaska We left Ell Cove fairly early in the morning. The first hour or so of our cruise was in some fog, but we still had pretty good visibility. The National Geographic Sea Lion called us via VHF to let us know they were going to exit…
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Airship Goes to Alaska We trolled for salmon on the way from Warm Springs Bay to our next stop at Ell Cove, and guess what? Deke caught a 25-inch Coho. Guess what’s for dinner tonight? Cleaning and filleting while under way: We arrived in Ell Cove and anchored, then took…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Today's trek was not too far up the east coast of Baranof Island from Red Bluff Bay to Baranof Hot Springs in Warm Springs Bay. Before we left Red Bluff Bay we took another spin around in the dinghy (and Kevin flew the drone). Here's a…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Kake came through on the work front. We got in lateish (after all the humpback drama in the afternoon), and it was raining and crappy out, so we just made dinner and did a bunch of work. In the morning, we did more work, filled up…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Quiet morning in Ford's Terror: Also, another black bear on shore (taken from Airship): We left Ford's Terror at the first high tide (about 20 minutes after high slack in Juneau, and there was just a little bit of current at the pinch point as we…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Ford’s Terror is a very steep and narrow fjord 60 miles southeast of Juneau in Alaska’s Inside Passage. You can only enter or exit the fjord at high slack tide when the rapids (and the 2-3 foot waterfall!) have turned calm and there is enough water covering…
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Airship Goes to Alaska We left Taku Harbor this morning and decided to fish a bit on our way to Tracy Arm. We caught two rockfish, and then a really weird other thing we're still trying to figure out what it was. Internetters, if you know…tell us! Rockfish: Weird sluggy thing…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Tiffani and Deke showed up at Airship (Harris Harbor, Juneau, AK) at 10pm on June 20 (Woohoo! They're finally here!!). On Sunday the 21st we provisioned first thing. The Juneau IGA is a KILLER grocery store. It looks like any other slightly downtrodden rough-weather-place grocery store,…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Yesterday we did a bunch of errand-y stuff…did laundry at the laundromat, got some good rubber gloves at the marine store, got more fishing stuff, put together the rail-mount fish cleaning table and installed it, organized all the fishing gear, cleaned out the lazarette, cleaned the…
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