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They have quite few interesting designs shown on their web page. Their hulls all seem to be self righting as well.

It was sad year for the bear population in the Yukon and northern BC. 63 bears were put down because of wildlife/human conflict. In many cases because of human habituation of the bear or just plain human stupidity. Living in the north and in an area where there is a lot of bears around our...

The river levels peaked around June 17th and have been going down since then. For this year your timing for doing the river was pretty good. I'll be curious to see how the YRQ racers find the river after they get to Dawson.

Now that you've done the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson, I'm sure you're wondering how do people paddle that distance in The Yukon River Quest in under 40 hrs. Grant you most teams do it in under 55hrs. but I still find it an amazing accomplishment. You should stick around till the 29th...

Hi Jay Not sure if I'll run into you in Whitehorse. But the weather has been quite nice the past week here. Based on the latest hydro-metric data for the Yukon River, the upper Yukon down to Carmacks has been trending downward, while in the area of the White River and Dawson it has been going...

Jay The advice you got sounds good. I've never been lucky enough to get ideal conditions rounding Cape Ommaney coming from Port Alexander. So it has always been a bit of a with knuckle ride. But I thoroughly love that coastline heading up to Sitka, and have always had lots of time to do it. So I...

April can be a beautiful time of year to travel the Lynn Canal. I remember leaving Skagway on a friends 45ft schooner on our way to Juneau for the folk festival in April. Beautiful weather all the way down the canal until we hit the Brenner Bay area and then a snow storm (snow ball fights on...

Actually the protocol for crossing the border at an unsupervised border crossing is pretty strict these days. It is worth finding out the proper procedure before the fact or you can end up in a similar situation to this person. https://craigmedred.news/2016/02/11/if- ... your-bike/

Here in the Yukon it feels like we are a month ahead of our normal spring weather. If that has any relation to what SE Alaska weather is doing, well that it is hard to say. But we have open water on Atlin Lk. which we normally don't see until late May or early June. As with all small boat travel...

Hi Jay A friend sent me this video of a 1949 steamboat trip down the Yukon River. I thought you might enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej37rLeu-JI

Jay It has been an exceptionally warm winter here with below average snow fall in headwaters of the Yukon. Some of the headwaters lakes did not even freeze over totally, till very late in the winter. So it is very hard to predict if breakup will be earlier this, but lot of people are assuming...

You will want to keep a eye on this website, regarding river ice breakup at Dawson. http://www.yukonriverbreakup.com/

Hi Jay I'm hoping this is a typo but "Dawson, BC" will not make you well respected by most Yukoners, and though Dawson's present population would not qualify it as a city by most of today's standards, at one time in it's history it would have qualified as a city...

I often wondered if you had this situation happen to you in Alaska, would you be charged under the Whale Viewing Regulations. https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/pr/mm-viewing-guide

Interesting that you should mention Ben My Cree. In the early 70's we spent a lot of time on Tagish Lake and down at Ben My Cree, but when we bought a sailboat we switched over to SE Alaska for next 28 years. Once we sold the sailboat we found ourselves again back on Tagish and Atlin lakes and...

Hi Jay With your interest in the Yukon river, I thought you might find this book of interest on the old steam boats that once plied the river. I picked it up myself and found it fascinating reading and full of amazing photos. http://yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/ ... -steamers/

Hi Jay I'm not sure if you're familiar with Geomatics Yukon as a source for imagery information for the Yukon. But if not you might want to check it out : http://www.geomaticsyukon.ca/ I use the site a lot for a variety of projects and find it very useful. Just be prepared to spend a lot of...

Jay You might find this site of interest' especially the old photos of the Whitehorse and Dawson river front. I'm afraid they no longer look that way. https://www.facebook.com/1967YukonRiver ... nref=story You might have seen this video already of the last trip of a paddle wheeler down the...

Though Bruce's Yukon Channel Charts has been a well respected book for many years it is quite dated. Many people now have been using Mike Rourkes maps of the Yukon River, which is more up to date. http://www.yukonbooks.com/shop/customer ... uctid=2818

Thou satellite phone coverage is fairly good through out the Yukon. You will find in the Yukon River valley the coverage is sporadic. I've also seen a few areas on the river as well where I haven't been able to get a GPS signal lock. I've been working with the satellite/digital imagery in the...