Airship | Kent Inlet to Rescue Bay, BC

We left Kent Inlet on Thursday morning as the fog was clearing…another beautiful day so far! We cruised a slightly longer day (39nm) to Rescue Bay, where we put a couple crab traps down. A little later, we saw a green-hulled Selene approaching from Jackson Narrows…could it be Scott on Impulse? Yes it could! Awesome! So we chatted with him and his friend Tracy and made a plan to cruise … Read more

Airship | Saycuritay Cove to Racey Inlet/Bone Ache Anchorage, BC

I set the alarm for 6am this morning, thinking we’d get an early start, but it was still fully dark (oops) at 6am, so we snoozed and left at 7am instead. We had a beautiful cruise down the east side of Campania Island (Squally Channel, not squally today) into Campania Sound and CaamaƱo Sound before tucking into Racey Inlet and cruising all the way to the head of the bay … Read more

Airship | Dixon Entrance, Captain Cove, Saycuritay Cove, BC

We left Foggy Bay around 6am on Friday and had perhaps the most chill crossing of Dixon Entrance ever. It’s possible that due to it being our 18th (!!!) crossing we’re a little more chill ourselves, but it was SO so calm and felt quite short! We saw quite a few different groups of whale spouts in the distance as we approached Dundas Island. Look how calm these conditions are! … Read more

Airship | Bradfield Canal

We haven’t ever been up Bradfield Canal, so after we left Berg Bay, at the bottom of Blake Channel we turned left up Bradfield Canal and headed for an anchorage just past the Harding River. We saw two humpbacks spouting in the distance, twice, but didn’t see them again after that. We dropped the hook in about 60 feet and promptly took off in the dinghy to explore some of … Read more

Airship | Sokolof Island and Berg Bay

We left Petersburg yesterday morning around 8am. A beautiful, mostly clear, sunny day! We transited Wrangell Narrows riding the current in and then also out…it’s fun when the timing works and you get a current boost the whole way through! We stopped and anchored on the east side of Sokolof Bay, a spot we were in once before (over July 4 in 2018). We dropped the anchor in about 30 … Read more

Announcing the 2025 Slowboat Flotilla to Alaska

Inside Passage, San Juan Islands to SE Alaska Prevost Harbor WA to Juneau AK | ~6 weeks | late May to mid July 2025 NOTE 8/22/24: We have accepted “hold my spot” deposits for all openings on the 2025 flotilla and have several people already on the waitlist. Things almost always change, so let us know if you’d like us to add you to the waitlist! Glaciers. Icebergs. Whales. Bears. … Read more

Airship | Red Bluff Bay to Keku Islands

Yesterday afternoon in Red Bluff Bay, we dinghied up river to look for bears, but saw only salmon…but SO MANY salmon. A little hard to tell in the photo, but this is what the water looked like on either side of us as we ventured up the river. We met last night on Brian and Allie’s boat Knot to Worry (along with two friends traveling with them, and another boat … Read more

Airship | Ell Cove to Red Bluff Bay

We exited Ell Cove Wednesday morning onto a flat calm Chatham Strait, but we could see fog in our future. We watched two different humpbacks breaching and fin-slapping in the distance as we cruised south down Chatham Strait, but they were too far for decent photos. Eventually, we were in thick fog with very little visibility, and for a while I regretted leaving our perfectly clear spot at Ell Cove. … Read more