update 20150618
We are down to less than a week before casting off the lines in Valdez our home port. Everything has gone very well for us no major challenges, just nervous excitement. we leave Fairbanks for the foreseeable future on the 22nd of June. carrying with us the last few necessities and lots of food. Our intent is to spend a few days on the dock double checking everything on the boat. This first leg of our trip will be the longest we spend at sea for the next year. what do we mean by the longest? when we get to Juneau we will spend the majority of the next year in relatively protected waters. However to get to Juneau we will spend several days at sea in the Gulf of Alaska. while this may not sound like a big deal it is, this area of the Gulf has little to no place to run if bad weather rears its ugly head. In addition to lack of cover there are no little ports to pull into if there is a mechanical break down. We expect this to be one of the best parts of the trip as well. most folks will si