We arrived in Anchorage this afternoon. As you can see, I am getting a bit scraggly. The passage across the Gulf was great - very calm waters. It was a very pleasant journey - crew is getting along great and the only crisis is that we have run out of vegetables due to a provisioning error. But tomorrow I go shopping.
You can see here our barge - the Northland gang will be working late into the night taking cargo off of it. Then tomorrow we will help them load it up again for the next leg of our journey, which should be Dutch Harbor.
Surprisingly, we have a wireless connection on at the dock! As you can see, not a place I would expect it.
The weather here is typical Alaska - drizzle - but it’s not too cold.AJ - if you are reading this - I got your message, but couldn’t hear the number you left - I will try and call 7 Tepees tomorrow.
Yesterday the captain looked at the weather and decided to leave the inside passage and cut accross the gulf at Cape Decision. Weather is gray, but low winds and light swell.
The trip is shaping up great. The crew is getting along well. The captain and mate are instructive and reasonable. I have seen several whales, but still haven’t gotten a good photo. Our next stop is Anchorage - we’ll eventually get to Nome, the farthest north I have been. However, we don’t know what other stops we are going to make - it depends on how the fishing is going.
Position 56 44.21N 137 51.480W
Yesterday the captain looked at the weather and decided to leave the inside passage and cut accross the gulf at Cape Decision. Weather is gray, but low winds and light swell.
The trip is shaping up great. The crew is getting along well. The captain and mate are instructive and reasonable. I have seen several whales, but still haven’t gotten a good photo. Our next stop is Anchorage - we’ll eventually get to Nome, the farthest north I have been. However, we don’t know what other stops we are going to make - it depends on how the fishing is going.
So another school phase ends.  Finished up watchkeeping yesterday, and now I am off to the Polar Ranger to go to Alaska. I am excited to go out again.  Life at sea is so much less complex than life on land.
I should be out of contact for a week or so. Not sure when I will be able to update again. Probably in early July.
I should be back in Seattle at the end of July.
Dunlap is trying a new scheduling strategy - keeping the crews on the same boats. The upside of this is that I now know my schedule for the whole summer - Yeah. Unfortunately it means I will miss a lot of cool things going on this summer.
I am way behind on sea time - so I will be missing a lot of land events this year. I need to get 221 days by next June. And since I have 60 days of classes between now and then, that doesn’t leave me much time off.
I leave on June 15th returning end of July. Then I leave again August 10th - returning end of September.
Getting behind on posting. I have two new certs - Electronic Navigation and Basic Meteorology.   I will write up a summary of the all the classes soon.
