Resurrection Bay
Story goes that the Russian merchant and trader Alexander Baranov’s ship was forced to take shelter here during a powerful storm on Easter eve. Stunningly calm, beautiful weather on Easter […]
Monthly Archives: April 2025
The Ship’s Lullaby
Oh, right – the storm. Played out about as the crew said it would: we rocked a little more than usual (though “usual” is always hard to quantify on an […]
Sea Change
Third mate was talking about it with one of the engineers when I came in. “Yeah, next week we’re gonna be laughing about this: ‘Remember that one transit that really […]
Mid-Pacific
By the numbers, there are about 40 of us onboard this little bluewater ark, bobbing and swirling our way north to Alaska. 18 officers, ABs and engineers, I think, and […]
Sikuliaq, Northbound
I wonder if it ever gets old? Oh god, I dearly hope not, any more than would the first whiff of a rose in spring, or the magic of a […]
Kauai
It was like a game of peekaboo: up on the trail, blue skies with crashing blue ocean below us. Down on the bluffs? Swirling gray mist all around. Back up […]
Gallivanting in Place
I’d been on the verge of saying that, once again I’ve gone off gallivanting and the world has fallen apart in my absence, but that’s not quite right. I mean, […]
David Pablo Cohn 