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A huge slide in Tracy Arm SE Alaska coming down half on the north side of South Sawyer glacier & the other half in the water in front of the north side of the glacier face created a wave 20 feet high, 36 miles away from the slide at Harbor Island & around Tracy Arm Cove, 4 miles away at Sawyer...

I arrived back yesterday to the Bridge Bay Marina on Yellowstone Lake with the HunkyDory for the 23rd year, after earlier this year attending the Friday Harbor Gathering & a cruise again to Princess Louisa Inlet & later a 7000 mile Truck-camper road trip to Alaska & the Yukon. Most of the...

With JoLee not feeling up to making this year’s Alaska extended cruise, I was beyond pleasantly surprised to have my granddaughter Wrenny, say she wanted to go & then even more surprised by her parents saying she could. When very young, starting under two, the HunkyDory was her fun place to...

Lots of contradictory opinions on how often to check motor valve clearances here & on the internet. From experience with my old Honda 40’s & lots of recent reading about it, I decided it was time or perhaps even past time to do it now at 540 hours on the replacement Honda 60’s. I found one...

For the 20th summer cruise of our CD22, HunkDory, I will have the company of three other boats, where we plan to spend between two & three months seeing the areas JoLee & I have enjoyed the most on our previous 8 extended cruises covering over 12,000 miles in SE Alaska. The majority of this...

Only videos of about a max minute in length can be posted to our albums, so I broke down the video of how to avoid objects dead ahead, while using a auto pilot into three short I minute videos starting here. http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _photo.php I stated in the videos, the...

I’m was down to one key for the cabin door, so have been through several locksmiths trying to get a copy made with no luck. I found this site on the internet, which sell the Mobella replacement key ready to use if you have one left with the number on it. I ordered several spares. This was for...

I first posted these three videos of our 1st extended cruise & road trip in 2003 to the Yukon & SE Alaska with our then new to us CD22 boat in 2006. The video host I used was expensive to us, so I lost the videos in the post in 2014. Realizing they were gone from the 2006 post I added new...

I don’t do a blog, however as some may know, I do share my written accounts & videos of our extended SE Alaska cruises here in the Grand Adventure Forum. On our trips & other places, I’m often asked if I do a blog & answer no, but I do share write ups on the C-Brats web site within the Grand...

These are links to videos of our 2004, SE Alaska cruise, starting from Prince Rupert, BC, Canada. This was in 2004, the first trip was in 2003 & out of Skagway, Alaska without prior ocean cruising experience & very little anywhere else in anything other than a rubber inflatable or canoe. I...

This summer my twin 20 year old Honda 40’s are running as well as they ever have, but being as I like to explore in remote areas where engine troubles may be more than just an expense & irritation, I’ve decided to repower with new twin Honda BF 60’s. Only their use will confirm or not the...

Since 2003 with our many cruises, especially in the SE Alaska area, I’ve been able to really appreciate the capabilities of the CD22 in many different extreme scenarios & during the just past Friday Harbor Gathering our CD22 Hunkydory faced another challenge, which it surmounted much better than...

We left our home in Wyoming on 5-19-18 to trailer our boat to Skagway, Alaska to start our 8th cruise in SE Alaska. This year we took the route up through Kalispell, Montana, the Ice Parkway through the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, then up the remote Cassiar Highway to where it meets the...

After the recent discussion about bears on Peter & Judy’s Atlin Lake cruise thread, I thought I would post these links to different video’s of our SE Alaska cruises that have many bears & other interesting (at least to me) views of some of my favorite places there. For those interested in...

This happening to a C-Dory could be more thrill then wanted. http://www.sitkasentinel.com/7/2012-05- ... -at-biorka

This year in our combined boating travels in SE Alaska, the Yukon River & Lakes Yellowstone & Powell, we put 2347 miles on the water & towed it for 6613 miles & while doing so, spent 96 nights sleeping aboard & 193 engine running hours on each Honda 40 motor. In another thread the subject of...

Last summer, while cruising down the Yukon River, the port 40 hp Honda motor battery voltage climbed to approximately 17v. It would normally show 14.4v. We didn't have a spare voltage regulator, so the trip had to be cut short at Dawson City, Yukon. Upon arriving back home, I purchased &...

Maybe some others will enjoy watching this tracker on this annual Yukon River race between Whitehorse & Dawson. It just started today & covers the same area of 460 miles we did this month in our CD22. http://www.yukonriverquest.ca/yrq/app/1 ... sults2.php I'm having fun switching between it &...

This a a link to a short video of us going up a very narrow tidal channel near Baranof Warm Spring Bay, SE Alaska http://youtu.be/gB8O8fSSlO4 Jay

These are the links to three very short YouTube videos of the whale we have been watching from the dock at Warm Spring Bay, Baranof Island, SE Alaska. http://youtu.be/hiWZW7O1Ctw http://youtu.be/OLgCA2d9R8I http://youtu.be/b61raCDEFXk Jay