redgear's WunderBlog

sailing southeast ak

Sun, 6 Feb 2011 04:09:00 GMT

sailed to hoonah and angoon today, typical southeast ak weather. Seems to be a lot less snow this year though and some good cold snaps so far this winter. It had rained and then froze, sheet ice over everything.
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Sunny southeast Alaska

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:09:00 GMT

Warm and sunny, yahoo! Time to go net a few sockeye, maybe go shrimping.
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on the ship

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 04:50:00 GMT

Feels like spring, snow going, I look out off the stern and see calm seas and it is driving me nuts. I will put the boat in the water as soon as I get on the beach, shrimping, crabbing and fishing for spring kings, Southeast Alaska is truly god's country.
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natural world

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:43:00 GMT

This post is to vent against nature, the natural world is not a nuetral entity as some say, it is guided by a power that is not so much evil as it just has a weird sense of humor and likes to amuse itself at our expense. How many people have had their hats blown off on a calm day, been on a ladder when a gust of wind shakes it out of nowhere. Right now we in Haines are getting that hilarious cycle of snow and rain, a real laugh I am sure. How else can you explain hi...
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Xmas fun

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:29:00 GMT

Yahoo! Did everyone see all those poor people at SEATAC airport waiting in all those long lines, trying to get flights and in general having a real bad time? Well if you look real hard you can probably see my family and I there, I am the one with the crying kids, and the mad glint in my eye, oh, everyone was like that. Spent five days in Seattle and then gave up and came back to JNU, went skiing at eaglecrest and back home.Haines is having real cold weather for sout...
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