Iolea

We 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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Posted: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 - 14:51

Ducked into an anchorage call Fish Trap for a couple of nights. Its called fish trap we think because at the head of the bay it dries at low and the fish get caught in all these ponds; after all you

Posted: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 - 05:30

We started to inch further north into Prince William Sound today. Spent the night in Outside Bay on Naked Island. Apart from another great anchorage, there was one additional nice to have, namely

Posted: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 - 15:00

After three days on anchor hunkered down hiding from wind and rain in the lovely Whale Bay, which is so well protected we didn't see a knot of breeze and the holding was all so good with its sticky

Posted: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 - 04:45

We checked out the Tiger Glacier in Icy Bay yesterday morning, the weather was perfect, clear skies and little wind, enabling us to motor up real close to the head of the glacier. Decided not to

Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 - 13:42

Another day, another stunning anchorage. Today we moved to Otter Bay, expecting to see otters. Whilst we're yet to see an otter or bear here, despite this anchorage having a reputation for an

Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 - 05:06

We finished our boat jobs in Seward and headed back out, this time to Fox Farm Bay in the SW outside corner of Prince William Sound. This is yet another amazing anchorage; one often used by

Posted: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 - 02:06

Pulled into Seward Small Boat Harbor Marina a couple of days ago for some much needed provisioning and as a base for a train trip to check out Anchorage. They are blessed here with the most stunning

Posted: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 - 05:09

Sure pleased we moved anchorages yesterday. We headed up towards the head of Aialik Bay to check out the other anchorage recommended by the Pilot Book which was in the SE corner of Coleman Bay

Posted: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 - 08:33

Having spent the day checking out the Northwestern Glacier we didn't leave ourselves much time to get to our next anchorage which we thought may be either the SE corner Paradise Cove or the SE corner

Posted: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 - 04:27

Had an extraordinary day motoring up into the Northwestern Glacier. The range of colours in the ice is phenomenal; everything from bright white, to light steel blue, to grey and a tan brown. We

Posted: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 - 10:57

This was an odd day in that it started out with a lovely motor through a tight pass around to the bay which has the Northwestern Glacier at its head. We started with clear skies but things went to

Posted: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 - 15:12

Another day, another stunning anchorage. We spent last night in an unnamed cove just to the north of Moonlight Bay in the McCarty Fiord at the mouth of the McCarty Glacier. This was an easier

Posted: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 - 10:00

We ducked around the corner to Pilot Harbor which is up the end of the North Arm to the east of the head of the bay where the Nuka River runs. This was a weird anchorage in that none of our charts

Posted: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 - 07:45

We had an uneventful eastbound motor sail from Agfonak Island across to the mainland yesterday; although it was tiring due in part to a never ending 2kt current that slowed our progress

Posted: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 - 01:15

Another day another great anchorage. Moved east to inside the eastern arm of Tonki Bay today as our staging point to sail across to the mainland to Tonsina Bay. Whilst the bottom is gravel and does

Posted: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 - 04:39

Moved further into the larger Izhut Bay to drop anchor at Kitoi Bay which is at the head of the western arm and also where there is a salmon hatchery operating. Despite being a Saturday we managed

Posted: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 - 15:21

Threw the dock lines off after a productive stock in Kodiak and headed east to Afognak Island where we dropped the pick in an unnamed bay immediately to the right as you enter the pass if you were to

Posted: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 - 15:53

Woo Hoo! We've got our generator fixed. Turns out that the reason it stopped producing AC current was the AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulator) had failed. Apparently this was a known problem with

Posted: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 - 18:43

Had a lovely combo sail in light winds finishing with a motor into Kodiak's inner marina. Pleased to be in a more substantive town for a change where we can reprovision, hopefully get our genset

Posted: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 - 14:57

We picked the pick up today to sail east through the notorious Whale Passage, where we hooted along at 10kts thanks to 3.5 knots of favourable current which spat us out the other end, and onto

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