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For a quick escape into the wilder, wilderness of Alaska aboard the ‘speed demon’ Audrey Eleanor takes approximately 2 hours and is roughly 30 K. We love to cruise behind Sullivan Island, south of Haines, Alaska and swing on the hook for few days of solitude. The warmth of friends who...

In the previous Adventure, The Audrey Eleanor managed to navigate Whiterock passage and find moorage at the government dock at Read Island. The owner of the little country store has invited the crew to come ashore and visit her island home… Stone staircases lead upward from the rock walkway we...

Audrey pulled away her moorage in Haines, Alaska on July 26, 2006. Haines was difficult to leave; we’d established wonderful friendships on the docks and in the community as well. Richard from the Eleanor S would no longer commission us to spy on his daughter, she sometimes spent the night onboard...

There are few women who live on the docks. When I happened to meet these women there an instant kindred connection. Our conversations are about boating, but with a feminine twist. One of my many rants to my kids is; the more you know, the less you will learn. It is great to listen to the experiences...

As the stories of the Adventures of The Audrey Eleanor appear in the Whitehorse Star, a century old newspaper that serves the Yukon and parts of Alaska, more and more people want to know more about “her” and the future of the series. What is she (make and model), where did she come from...

In the previous storey we left you while we were floating under the stars in the hot tub. There is a small community in Squirrel Cove. The general store is well stocked and has a decent marine hardware section. This is our introduction to “the oyster man”, he is located on Cortes Island...

Word has gotten out that Tracey Arm rivals Glacier Bay for magnificent glaciers and stunning scenery.The ice walls calve and collapse into the ocean with a force that creates huge resounding waves.Waves which tinkle the neon blue icebergs like giant ice cubes mingling in a crystal glass.This solid...

I remember bits and pieces of a song that go something like,” she got the goldmine and all I got was the shaft.” Don’t remember who sang it, or the name of the song. I recall stains of this lament drifted on the spring air after a long hard and dark winter in the Yukon. A similar version...

Saturday morning arrives muffled in grey. Not exactly fog, just silent and still water and pearly-silver sky. It is surreal, seeing sail boats float in the glimmering clouds…no I have not been smoking anything. Our next-door neighbour is a sailboat with a man attached to its mast. The man...

The Audrey Eleanor leaves Meyers Chuck, Alaska early in the afternoon. We have made plans to meet up with the “Jenny” and her crew, the floating dentist and his wife for cocktails, but the Inn was full. Anchoring looked to be a bit precarious so we felt it was best to head for the next horizon....

YOU MISSED IT! Any event that is held in Pender Harbour shouldn’t be missed and that is especially true of the wooden boat festival! Still intimate, but with a broad spectrum of participants that provide incredible variety, this show allows you personal access to most boats and their owners....

In the previous adventure; the Audrey Eleanor and crew take a beating while trying to creep undetected past the furies and Mother Nature into Milbanke Sound and through Reid Channel.They manage to escape after 20-foot seas threaten to roll them side over side and dredge them into the ocean floor:...

Dent, Yuculta, Green; names of rapids that you need to pay attention to.This is where you need to know about current tables as well as tide tables.The whirlpools; the sinkers in two of these rapids can get up to thirty feet across and the rapids can run 8 knots.We run at 8 knots, so you know that...

We are docked in Prince Rupert, B.C. It feels great to be back in Canadian waters. Audrey has been de-registered in record time thanks to Sheila (she is amazing) and we are once again Canadian registered with our home Port being Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. We were never boarded by the U.S. homeland...