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Where I live a few days of -40c or colder is not unheard of. The issues I've seen with leaving our electronics on-board in this weather is the following: - Poor quality LCD screens either crack or the seal breaks and moisture gets inside. - You get a warm spell after a cold spell and...

When I first came to the Yukon as a very young man and before I got into sailboats, my first long distance canoe trip was down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to the Bering Sea. Now as my wife is a member of the Paddlers Abreast voyageur team, I've been involved with the Yukon River Quest since...

The final team in the Yukon River Quest got into Dawson last night. Winning time was 41 hrs 51 mins. to travel 715 km / 444 miles Whitehorse to Dawson City, Yukon. Some great pictures of the race on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yukon-Riv ... 3281403836 if any of you are interested. It is...

Kind of a different way of cruising a large river but thought some of you might find it interesting. In a week and half's time the the Yukon River Quest http://www.yukonriverquest.com/ will start its 13th running of the longest annual canoe and kayak race. The race is 444 miles/715 km long from...

Jay In a previous post you mentioned the unlikely-hood of a bear boarding the boat in deep water. I use to feel the same way until after seeing in two occurrences bears boarding boats in deep water. One was in Baronof warm springs, the seining fleet was in after a fishing opening and there...

This slideshow of the flooding in the Yukon which is partly a result of some of the weather Jay has been having on the coast might give everyone some idea how horrible weather has been in the Yukon and SE Alaska over the last few weeks. Thankfully this isn't typical of this time of the year...

For any of you thinking of heading up the Alaska Hwy. you might not be aware that the highway is presently closed. There has been two washouts south of Whitehorse and one north of Whitehorse. Also the road to Skagway has been closed as well. We've had a lot of rain over the last few days and...

Jay I'm so glad to see you doing most of your cruising at displacement hull speed. I've always found the benefits of coastal cruising at this speed to be enormous. You actually end up seeing so many more things of interest than what you would normally miss traveling at a faster speed. I've also...

I've been fairly lucky with trips down the outside from Sitka to Cape Ommaney. Though I've had one that definitely was a test of skills and nerves especially going around Cape Ommaney, was very happy to get into Port Alexander on that trip. Will be curious to know if the fish buyer/store/fuel...

I don't know if you plan on doing this portion of the coast again in the near future. But if the weather and sea conditions are good, going out around Yakobi Island then staying a couple of miles offshore can present you with and incredible view of the mountains and coastline. We made landfall...

Jay For the last 16 years we had a 26ft Finnish built motor sailor that we cruised SE Alaska and British Columbia. Prior to that we had another 25ft sailboat. We sold the motor sailor last spring and we're planning on buying a C-Dory that would still allow us to cruise SE but also give us the...

Curious to know if you have gone south of Pelican on Lisianski Inlet. It is actually quite interesting down there. Not the best of anchorages but at certain times of the year it can be excellent wildlife viewing. I seem to remember spending 5 days waiting at Lisianki St. to get out and down the...

We've never had much success hiking on the outside coastline of Chichagof or Baranof Islands. The weather has either been too bad or the times we have been able to hike we seem to run into bears, usually with very little warning that they are in the immediate area. It also seems that the weather...

I was looking at the pictures of the rock protection cover you have for the hull and was wondering how well it worked on the Alaska Hwy especially through the gravel sections. What type of material is it and how does it attach to the hull. In the pictures it looks like there are just snaps on...

SE Alaska in April and May can be real nice but also can hold some unexpected surprises. Remember several years ago leaving Skagway for Juneau in a friends boat for the Juneau folk festival, weather was nice in Skagway but by the time we got to Berners Bay we were in a blinding snow storm and...

Though Progressive seems to be a very good deal in the USA, however there is no Progessive Insurance in Canada. Which is to bad as I think I would switch to them as well. http://progressiveinsurancecanada.com/ So the the original poster's question is still an unkown for him.

So far I haven't found any marine insurance company that I would say I've been totally pleased with for any of our boats over the last 30 years in Canada. It does seem to matter how good of a marine insurance survey you had done on your boat before going to the insurance companies for quotes...

Hi Jay The reason I mentioned the float plane dock; is were your boat is moored is where a friend of ours ties up his float plane. I know of the frustration he feels when he flys in and finds space on the float plane dock filled up with boats and he is forced to go out to First Island and tie...

An interesting side note to this video is the Llewelyn River basically diappeared this past year. You can read more about this at these links: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... field.html http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/s ... ar__020911 http://glacierchange.org/2011/10/llewel...

If I was your age and doing the Inside Passage for the first time, I think I would be asking how much time do I need to see it properly. After 30 years of cruising the West Coast of BC. and SE Alaska I still find spots that are more interesting than the last spot; that I thought was at the top...