Iolea
FollowWe are an Australian couple (Paul Duncan & Kate Owen) who bought Iolea in Annapolis USA in 2010. Our cruising adventure started with a couple of years cruising the Caribbean. In 2013 we transited the Panama Canal and crossed the Pacific to NZ. For the past 3 years we have been cruising NZ (north and top of the south), Fiji and Vanuatu. We arrived in the Solomon Islands early April following 6 months sailing through Kiribati, The Marshall Islands and a short stop in Kosrae. This year we are heading back to Vanuatu and then on to New Caledonia before returning to NZ and preparing to head back across the Pacific in 2018.
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Iolea - September 3, 2019
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After our short stay at Warm Springs Bay on Baronof Island with the lovely baths we decided to move to Chapin Bay where we intend to stay for two nights and let some foul weather pass by. The guide ... Read More
Iolea - September 3, 2019
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We had a leisurely motor sail yesterday around to Warm Springs Bay on Baranof Island. Its immediately obvious how popular this stop is with its lovely bay, impressive waterfall a stone's throw away ... Read More
Iolea - September 2, 2019
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Our friends from Australia (Gudrun & Oscar) joined us at Sitka a few days ago. After painting the town red we pulled out at dawn yesterday for Appleton Cove via the notorious Sergius Channel. Upon ... Read More
Iolea - August 27, 2019
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We pulled into Sitka today to get the boat ready for friends from Australia who will be joining us on board for a week. This is the most substantive town we've sailed into so far in Alaska. They ... Read More
Iolea - August 25, 2019
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Tonight's anchorage is in Wooded Knoll Cove, which is towards the head of Slocum Arm. Whilst its well protected and seriously pretty we are anchoring in what is essentially one giant rock hand ... Read More
Iolea - August 25, 2019
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Had a fascinating day today. We took a local short cut through the Piehle Passage as a means for shortening our voyage south. When y9ou first look at this passage on the charts your immediate ... Read More
Iolea - August 23, 2019
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We moved onto Klag Bay today, anchoring up in the head of the bay. Whilst the charts have generally been okay around here, with only a few errors, they had an island at the head of the bay on the ... Read More
Iolea - August 22, 2019
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We're thoroughly enjoying our gunk-holing down the SE coast of Alaska. Another day another new anchorage, this next one was just a mere 6nms around the corner to Kimshan Cove via a very tight cut ... Read More
Iolea - August 21, 2019
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The weather improved, as forecasted, so we popped around to Didrickson Bay. This is a well protected anchorage with an abundance of wildlife; we have salmon running up streams, bears, deer and ... Read More
Iolea - August 18, 2019
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To our pleasant surprise we were able to sail the last half of the way into Pelican yesterday. It is another lovely little boardwalk based town, albeit larger than Elfin, that survives on fishing and ... Read More
Iolea - August 18, 2019
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There is some nasty weather coming so we decided to head into Elfin Cove for a night before moving onto Pelican to hide from the storm. Elfin is a lovely little boardwalk based town that survives on ... Read More
Iolea - August 15, 2019
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We motored down from Yakutat to Graves Harbor over night. This anchorage is almost completely land locked with plenty of swing room and good holding. We have friends who saw bears here last time ... Read More
Iolea - August 13, 2019
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Popped down to Yakutat today to stage for our last overnight of the season which will be a short 120nm hop to Graves Bay. A neat little town which we are looking forward to exploring.
Iolea - August 11, 2019
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Icy Bay is turning out to be the most stunning of anchorages. Apart from the views, looking at the second tallest snow capped mountain in all of Alaska and Canada, and the glacier, there is ... Read More
Iolea - August 9, 2019
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As there was no wind forecast for the next 7-10 days we bit the bullet and headed off to Icy Bay yesterday. As expected it was a motor sail at best, but hey we're here now and loving it. No anxious ... Read More
Iolea - August 8, 2019
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We headed around to Garden Cove anchorage in the SW corner of Hinchinbrook Island to stage for a morning departure to Icy Bay. This bay is large, dead flat, good anchoring depth with a sticky mud ... Read More
Iolea - August 7, 2019
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As we get ready to head east across the Gulf the weather is top of mind. The great westerly based breeze that has hung around for 7-10 days has ceased. Can't see any decent wind seven days out, so ... Read More
Iolea - August 5, 2019
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Ducked into Bear Trap Bay yesterday; hoping to see bears of course. Its hard to believe that with each anchorage we visit they just keep getting better. Whilst there is a ton of room in here it ... Read More
Iolea - August 4, 2019
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We headed out to Snug Corner Cove; which was intended to be a functional stop which cut the passage to our next anchorage (Bear Trap) in half but in the end had a double bonus. It was stunningly ... Read More
Iolea - August 2, 2019
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After a fabulous couple of days in Fish Trap we headed east towards the Columbia Glacier. It was sort of weird in that there was a lot of ice coming out of Columbia Glacier that we had to dodge going ... Read More