First Leg, Up the Inside Passage

Posted on May 30, 2016June 8, 2016 by Irene Crew 5 Comments

We’ve had a busy month since we left Seattle. We traveled approximately 950 nm, all but a few hours under power due to no wind or too much wind on the nose. We’ve got to keep moving and the wind is perfect out front in the Gulf of Alaska… right NOW! Here are a few […]... Read More

Sitka

Posted on May 23, 2016May 23, 2016 by Irene Crew 7 Comments

We arrived in Sitka yesterday! 20 days after leaving Seattle we arrived at our first milestone on our way to Nome. Peter has already changed the engine oil and has removed the wet exhaust mixing elbow (in a couple of pieces) because it started showing signs of trouble with all of our motoring. The good […]... Read More

moving on

Posted on May 18, 2016May 18, 2016 by Irene Crew 3 Comments

We made a brief stop in Ketchikan to clear into the country and take care of some boat jobs, made new friends here too and enjoyed a fantastic dinner with some very experienced arctic travelers Jill and Doug! (Looking forward to reading her book Rowing to Lattitude as we head North) We’re on our way […]... Read More

Location updates

Posted on May 6, 2016May 23, 2016 by Irene Crew 2 Comments

We are using an iridium unit for our location updates for now and plan to turn it on every couple of days to update. Beautiful traveling weather so far! share.delorme.com/PeterNiemann... Read More

Irene's Voyage

Month: May 2016

First Leg, Up the Inside Passage

Sitka

moving on

Location updates