Many of you Slowboat readers have been part of this journey—chatting with me about the project, beta-reading early drafts, and cheering me on. I’m deeply grateful, and want to officially announce here on Slowboat, that my novel, titled Untamed Coast, will be published by Ballantine/Penguin Random House in about a year. How did we get here? Let’s rewind a bit. Back in 2016, while exploring the outside of Chichagof Island … Read more
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
After a lazy morning, we left Klag Bay around 9:00 a.m. The aids to navigation on this section of coast could use some love but we found our way: Our first stop was Radioville. Several years ago we’d heard about this spot from Bill Pierre at the bar in Pelican. He explained that a guy named Joe used to live on an island offshore from Klag Bay. Joe was a … Read more
We left beautiful Klag Bay on Thursday morning (August 4), backtracking out Smooth Channel a little ways to see if we could locate the island where Radioville lived. Bill Pierre in Rose’s Bar in Pelican told us to look for a red shack, and in the Evergreen book Sam had, we managed to find reference to Radioville with a line from the description box to an island (lower left)… The Douglass guide, … Read more