It's All about Family & Friends! 7/19/2018 Admin 4 views Alert Bay July 16, Meet Stevie and Stella Beans: The best Grease Maker and Fisherman on the BC Coast We left Goose Island, north of Queen Charlotte Sound at 0430 to ride an ebb tide down coast, and then caught a flood tide of 3-4 kts pushing us into Queen Charlotte Sound for a 1630 arrival in Alert Bay. We wanted to get to Alert Bay before Stevie Beans left the next morning to go Prince Rupert to fish for salmon on his 58ft seine boat Ocean Predator. Stevie is a high chief of the Namgis (AK... Read More
Friday the 13th 7/13/2018 Admin 89 views Friday the 13th. 53 18N 129 05W 0500 Sun just starting to come up We departed Prince Rupert yesterday morning and caught the ebb tide to ride south thru Grenville Channel and got big boost, hitting 13kn for a short time. That is a 5kn increase for our steady 8kn Starr. We were passed by Western Towboat’s 130ft Gulf Titan towing a 1x4 (100 x 400ft) barge loaded to the hilt with containers from SE Alaska heading to Seattle. I had a nice chat on the VHF with the Gulf Titan skipper and we talk... Read More
Friday the 13th 7/13/2018 Admin 67 views Friday the 13th. 53 18N 129 05W 0500 Sun just starting to come up We departed Prince Rupert yesterday morning and caught the ebb tide to ride south thru Grenville Channel and got big boost, hitting 13kn for a short time. That is a 5kn increase for our steady 8kn Starr. We were passed by Western Towboat’s 130ft Gulf Titan towing a 1x4 (100 x 400ft) barge loaded to the hilt with containers from SE Alaska heading to Seattle. I had a nice chat on the VHF with the Gulf Titan skipper and we talk... Read More
Petersburg & Wrangle Alaska 7/10/2018 Admin 105 views It’s salmon season and the purse seiners are out in full force. As we cruise down the east coast of Baranof we see the seiners with their nets out, and their sein skiffs noisily pulling in their nets in the process of closing the net into a continuous purse. The fish tenders are standing by ready to offload the fish as soon as the purse sein skipper gives the order. While in Petersburg, next to where we were moored at the North Harbor Pier, the fish tenders were offloading the salmon at the T... Read More
The Land Of Plenty 7/7/2018 Admin 93 views Red Bluff Bay July 5&6, 2018 56 51N, 134 44W The Land of Plenty We ran down Chatham Strait after exiting Peril Strait with the current giving us a one and one- half knot boost. It is always a thrill to see the hundreds of streams cascading down the steep mountains on the East side of Baranof Island. The snow is almost all melted off the tops. We pulled into Red Bluff Bay and dropped our 2 shrimp pots just inside the entrance in 350ft of water. Steve and Kim Oberto on their big trawler Maxim... Read More
Sitka, Alaska-Moored next to a 107 year old piece of Ballard Fishing History 7/4/2018 Admin 128 views Sitka, Alaska - Moored next to a 107 year old piece of Ballard Fishing History. Noodle and Lori flew back to Hawaii yesterday afternoon. Great crewmates and they will be missed. Sharry and I departed Sitka this morning at 12:30 today, the 4th of July. We found ourselves underway heading into a thick wall of fog as we entered Peril Strait. We were in a hurry to catch the 1600 slack tide at Sergius Narrows because the max flood and ebb currents can run 8-9 knots and can create a standing wave. ... Read More