Airship | Kalinin Bay and Hanus Bay

We left Klag Bay day before yesterday (Saturday) expecting 3ft swells at about 6-7 seconds, but conditions outside were a bit sportier than advertised. Not terrible, but more like 4-5ft at about 5-6 seconds, with the occasional set of steeper, closer together 5-6 footers. So just this one photo because the rest of the time I was busy hand steering so I could keep us on our southerly route while … Read more

Airship | Kimshan Cove and Klag Bay

A bit of a teaser for some news we’ll be announcing soon: Kevin is doing the final edits on a novel he wrote (mystery, thriller, historical fiction) that is set in the area we are now exploring. The inspiration for the book came from our visit in 2016, when we went in search of a place called “Radioville” where a guy named Joe Bauer ran a radio outpost in the … Read more

Airship | Pelican to Kimshan Cove

We left Pelican this morning just after 8am. The low clouds persisted but the rain we listened to overnight had mostly stopped. Conditions in Lisianski Strait as we headed west to the outside of Chichagof Island were calm and peaceful, and the sky brightened as we neared the ocean. We saw one humpback near Cape Dearborn/Hill Island, and quite a few sea lions along the route, but it was raining … Read more