Pairadice and ASD Alaska Adventure 2017

Pairadice and ASD have met their northern goal of Skagway! Guess what? The sun is out!!! We used the ferry for the last section due to marina space and high winds that frequent the area.

A few more pics

John and I got away from the Admirals and got serviced at the Red Onion....

Ken E. said:

John, we're in Shearwater for a couple days and will be in Ketchikan in about a week, weather permitting. I'll be looking for you guys on AIS when we get to SE. Most of our time in July and August will be on the west side of Prince of Wales chasing fish although we may head up to Sitka too. Your pictures are great.
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Ken Hatt Trick

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Ken,
We are in Skagway till tomorrow. Be back in Juneau Tuesday. Leave for Hoonah wendsday, then work our way to Wrangell for the 4th.
Look forward to meeting up with ya. First beer is on you bud, Cheers.

Roger that, I'll be carrying.......beer, that is. Also carrying a 44 magnum as a hedge wild animal uprisings, but that's a separate topic. Look forward to seeing you guys.

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

John and I got away from the Admirals and got serviced at the Red Onion....

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You mean like a oil and filter change??

Some of us know of what you speak having been there during my working career. Somethings never change.

Been over 40 years from that activity, girls look the same (Somethings never change)

Al-Ketchikan

Al said:

You mean like a oil and filter change??

Al-Ketchikan

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Yep that's it!

Crusty has fullfilled a bucket list item, riding the WPYR (White Pass and Yukon Route) railroad. Here are a few pics.

Well Pairadice instruted me on the fine uses of bbq. So I bought a weber and a table. It would seem no one wants a free, slightly used quality magma grill.

Well my spelling sucks tonight. So ship stores getting ready to be stowed. Crusty thinks I will need to stock up in Ketchikan.

Al said:

You mean like a oil and filter change??

Al-Ketchikan

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Exactly!

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

Well my spelling sucks tonight. So ship stores getting ready to be stowed. Crusty thinks I will need to stock up in Ketchikan.

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If not sooner! My poor liver!

Happy summer solstice everyone. We start losing daylight tomorrow.

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

Happy summer solstice everyone. We start losing daylight tomorrow.

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I always get a bit sad at that. I enjoy the long days. Not as long as what you are experiencing now, but still long. Last night sunset was at 9:10 where I am. That means it is light enough to do things outside until 10pm.

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

Happy summer solstice everyone. We start losing daylight tomorrow.

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Call me crazy - I look forward to wild winter weather, snow, and 16 hours nights which mean soft 'dusk' light all day. The extremes we experience on BC's north coast are responsible for the rich environment I love so much.

MurrayM said:

Call me crazy -.

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Always ready to be of assistance. Better than calling you a 'Taxi'.:lol:

dhays said:

I always get a bit sad at that. I enjoy the long days. Not as long as what you are experiencing now, but still long. Last night sunset was at 9:10 where I am. That means it is light enough to do things outside until 10pm.

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Up here the sunset is at 11:30, and sun rise is 4:15. Evening twilight ends at the same time morning twilight begins. In other words, it never gets dark.

MurrayM said:

Call me crazy - I look forward to wild winter weather, snow, and 16 hours nights which mean soft 'dusk' light all day. The extremes we experience on BC's north coast are responsible for the rich environment I love so much.

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Wifey B: Ok, since you insist, Crazy Murray.

twistedtree said:

Up here the sunset is at 11:30, and sun rise is 4:15. Evening twilight ends at the same time morning twilight begins. In other words, it never gets dark.

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Wifey B: It sure was convenient on our Alaska cruise. We wanted to cruise only in daylight. However, with sunset at 10:00 and sunrise at 4:00 and light an hour after sunset and an hour before sunrise it meant between 18 and 20 hours of possible cruising.

Biggest problem was sleep schedule. We're conditioned not to even think about sleep until after dark. We also are conditioned to wake as the sun rises. You're enjoying the scenery so much, looking out on everything so beautiful, and the sun starts to set. You watch that. Then you decide to go inside the boat and watch a little tv perhaps until it hits you that it's nearly midnight. That and the fact you're planning on leaving at 4:00 AM.

I just can't imagine the short days of winter. I'd end up with SAD and it rhymes with MAD and that stands for no sun.

Awesome day on the water. I did see an AIS hit that surprised me. Yep Morning Star fixing to enter Lynn Canal about 10 miles ahead of us!!

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

Awesome day on the water. I did see an AIS hit that surprised me. Yep Morning Star fixing to enter Lynn Canal about 10 miles ahead of us!!

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Lynn Canal??? I know you used the ferry up and back, what the heck are you doing back in Lynn Canal.

Our of good grace and commonality for your neminis 'Morning Star" extending a invite to one of your 'Beer Times' with crab or better, a top sirloin steak on that new burner an outstanding example of seafaring commorady.

Al said:

Lynn Canal??? I know you used the ferry up and back, what the heck are you doing back in Lynn Canal.

Our of good grace and commonality for your neminis 'Morning Star" extending a invite to one of your 'Beer Times' with crab or better, a top sirloin steak on that new burner an outstanding example of seafaring commorady.

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Lynn just for a short time until you get to the junction of Icey Straits and Chatham Straits

Well Pairadice land a nice 53lb halibut today. He may share a pic or two. Nice and sunny and warm in Icey Straits today. Staying in Hoonah tonight.

TT,

I have always said that sunset and sunrise are the same event on June 21 and Dec 21. Hope to see you sometime this summer before you head south.

Tom

tpbrady said:

TT,

I have always said that sunset and sunrise are the same event on June 21 and Dec 21. Hope to see you sometime this summer before you head south.

Tom

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We have been anchored in front of the Harriman glacier for the past two days. Kayaking through the ice this AM, and occasional chunks of ice the size of a house come crashing down.

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

Well Pairadice land a nice 53lb halibut today. He may share a pic or two. Nice and sunny and warm in Icey Straits today. Staying in Hoonah tonight.

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If when you walk the streets of Hoonah and see fellows about your age or so, as them if they had longshored and knew old Al Johnson. As I tell the wife, I ask everybody to keep an eye out, there may be kids who look like me.:lol:
As I had said before, the folks in Hoonah are just the best of the Native community as you will find. Good folk, hard workers.

Enjoy, Fredrick Sound is about the best, kings, crab, shrimp, trout, moose, deer, bear, ducks, just a garden of food and such. Notice the ground, it is glacier and grows veggies well where planted. Cotten wood trees all over and smell so good in season.
Miss the place, spent 10 years in and out monthly in Hoonah Supercargoing on log ships.

Tom/John. If you have cause to speak to the Harbor Mistress, a member of the Mills family. Ask to Tom, her brother, health on my behalf. better yet, obtain a phone # or a address for Tom MIlls. My walking boss and one smart cookie. we have lost contact with each other and your being there is perhaps a blessing for reigniting the relationship. Let me add the other brother Jeff, he may be in Hoonah. Okay, one more, Archie Brown. if you would.
Regards,
Al

Al said:

Tom/John. If you have cause to speak to the Harbor Mistress, a member of the Mills family. Ask to Tom, her brother, health on my behalf. better yet, obtain a phone # or a address for Tom MIlls. My walking boss and one smart cookie. we have lost contact with each other and your being there is perhaps a blessing for reigniting the relationship. Let me add the other brother Jeff, he may be in Hoonah. Okay, one more, Archie Brown. if you would.
Regards,
Al

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Will do Al, the least we can do on your behalf.

Cheers, John

Alaskan Sea-Duction said:

Well my spelling sucks tonight. So ship stores getting ready to be stowed. Crusty thinks I will need to stock up in Ketchikan.

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Well, now I know why the Monkey Shoulder is hard to come by -- Tom, you have Montana's allotted ration on your boat! .. Crusty, remember: "THE LIVER IS EVIL, AND MUST BE PUNISHED!!"

Halibut

The Admiral set the hook on her first Halibut. Then handed me the pole, you can fill in the blanks.