This blog is a cut/paste from our Facebook posts for those who don’t do FB. Click on the youtube links to see animation. Day 5 Our goal today – somewhere in the vicinity of Cape Caution. There are 3 open water crossings on the way to Alaska. Since they are exposed to the open Pacific…
We’re on our way north to Southeast AK! This blog is a word-for-word repeat of the Facebook posts that we have been putting up daily as we cruise north. We’re posting here for the non-FB users. Click on the Youtube links for animations of our travels. Day 1 We left Seattle around 10:00 am, had…
We’ve been busy the last few months, and have been updating more on FB and less on blogs. For those not following us on FB, here’s a summary of the past few months, mostly copied from FB posts mostly. If’ you’ve been reading these blogs, you’ll know that we upgraded our shaft logs and bearings over…
Our summer has been wonderful—so much wildlife to see! The whales have been especially spectacular. The only thing that is disappointing is our throttled cellphone hotspot bandwidth, so we’ve mostly been posting on our FB page and on our miniblog through predictwind (see previous blog or website for link). We have a few more hours…
After a few weeks on the hard in Port Townsend, we are on our way to Alaska. You can follow our progress on our own page at Predict Wind (shows a chart including our route and a mostly daily mini-blog–see arrow below). Here’s the website to bookmark: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Gyrfalcon/ The chart looks something like this. Positions…
We’ve been a little quiet on the GyrBlog front. We’ve been busy with work at Seagen (Nancy), keeping Nancy fed (Peter), several upgrade projects, and pondering the future of the pandemic. We totally understand hesitancy about booking summer plans when there are so many unknowns about the future path of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also…
We are now taking reservations for summer cruises in Alaska aboard the Gyrfalcon. We are excited to offer these Alaska Itineraries for the 2022 season. As our faithful blog followers, you’re getting the first chance at a reservation! June 16-23, 2022: Juneau to Petersburg June 26 – July 3, 2022: Petersburg to Sitka July 5 –…
One of the best parts about Alaska was the wildlife. Thanks to our guests Glenn, Vicki, Sean, Colleen, John, and Ellyn for sharing their photos…at times, we’re too busy with captaining and hosting to shoot photos. This blog will be about marine and terrestrial mammals. Whales and dolphins The whales were amazing. We saw mostly…
It’s been a great couple of months in southeast Alaska, enjoying wildlife and time with friends. We are now in Ketchikan, heading south today. We’ll write more about the trip once we have more time. In the meantime, check our FB page or Peter’s miniblog for updates! Marine Traffic app (AIS) •Facebook (facebook.com/mvgyrfalcon) •https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Gyrfalcon
First was the freshwater leak. Eight years ago, we had the tank sandblasted and then glassed and epoxied. It has behaved like new since then. On our trip through Canada, the tank sprung a leak – a small hole in one corner. We (with the wise council of Ben at LUBR) came up with an…
