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We travel to grow our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through ……続きを見る

Don’t look now, but the Audrey Eleanor stands docked and beckoning you into these pages for some of the most absorbing, spellbinding and hilarious tales ever to float from the decks of a Canadian ve……続きを見る

For a quick escape into the wilder, wilderness of Alaska aboard the ‘speed demon’ Audrey Eleanor takes approximately 2 hours and is roughly 30 K. We love to cruise behind Sullivan Island, south of H……続きを見る

As the stories of the Adventures of The Audrey Eleanor appear in the Whitehorse Star, a century old newspaper that serves the Yukon and parts of Alaska, more and more people want to know more about ……続きを見る

Audrey is moored in Deep Bay, B.C. on the mid-section of Vancouver Island. We had crossed the sandbar in front of Comox early the following day. This is a notoriously rough area because it is shallo……続きを見る

Word has gotten out that Tracey Arm rivals Glacier Bay for magnificent glaciers and stunning scenery.The ice walls calve and collapse into the ocean with a force that creates huge resounding waves.W……続きを見る

…she had tried to tie herself to a wall in the rolling galley. The thought of leaving Shearwater by sea is too traumatic. If I am jumping ship this is my last chance to do so. Shearwater is locate……続きを見る

This is the end my friend. After hurricane lashings, cold wet nights,(the toothpaste was frozen some mornings) and dock disputes, spring has finally beaten up old man winter. The Furies still try t……続きを見る

The Audrey Eleanor leaves Meyers Chuck, Alaska early in the afternoon. We have made plans to meet up with the “Jenny” and her crew, the floating dentist and his wife for cocktails, but the Inn was f……続きを見る

It’s time for a little magic. The end of what we thought wasn’t a bad summer is drawing to a close. The locals in Pender Harbour and Madeira Park complain about climate change and in their minds, la……続きを見る

If you feel confused by the chronological order of the latest episodes of the Adventures of the Audrey Eleanor, you should be. Quite frankly I left the “rat” episodes until last because I struggle w……続きを見る

In the previous Adventure, The Audrey Eleanor managed to navigate Whiterock passage and find moorage at the government dock at Read Island. The owner of the little country store has invited the crew……続きを見る

In the last episode the Robert S, an ex navy coastguard cutter/gunboat is on a high-speed collision course with the Audrey Eleanor. The great grey bow of the Robert S is bearing down on the Audrey E……続きを見る

Simply saying the name Saltspring Island causes gentle breezes to whisper through my mind and fluffy sheep jump unbidden over my snob hurdles. Directly behind the sheep are groups of people stating ……続きを見る

Where to start?The rats have run rampant on board the Audrey Eleanor for two months we estimate.We call our neighbours who own The Knotty Gal, we want them to be aware that there are rats on the doc……続きを見る

Dent, Yuculta, Green; names of rapids that you need to pay attention to.This is where you need to know about current tables as well as tide tables.The whirlpools; the sinkers in two of these rapids ……続きを見る

In the previous episodes the Audrey Eleanor had come under attack by an ex-navy cutter/gunboat.The crew now need to determine if Audrey has met the end of her days.The other consideration is whether……続きを見る

YOU MISSED IT! Any event that is held in Pender Harbour shouldn’t be missed and that is especially true of the wooden boat festival! Still intimate, but with a broad spectrum of participants that p……続きを見る

We are docked at the government wharf in Deep Bay on Vancouver Island.The Coast Guard weather report is calling for another night of hurricane force winds after a night of record snowfall in an area……続きを見る

…We streak (literally) towards the dock. Waves crash over us and the dock as we try to reach Audrey. Grenville Channel, south of Prince Rupert, is deep, dark, long and narrow. Without a north wind,……続きを見る

What's it like to be an intrepid explorer . . . and a woman? Expedition to Mystery Mountain is a come-along adventure of a city-dwelling woman who, with five fellow climbers, re-enacts the 1926 expl……続きを見る

Intrusion, invasion, attack and violation. Under the cover of darkness they creep over the gunnels and crawl into the bowels of The Audrey Eleanor. It is apparent that they have settled in and been ……続きを見る

The Captain is asleep with his good hearing ear in the pillow…I can feel the weight of it as it as it gets closer, roaring like an old Whitepass steam engine determined to run us down. The Audrey El……続きを見る

Audrey pulled away her moorage in Haines, Alaska on July 26, 2006. Haines was difficult to leave; we’d established wonderful friendships on the docks and in the community as well. Richard from the E……続きを見る

We are docked in Prince Rupert, B.C. It feels great to be back in Canadian waters. Audrey has been de-registered in record time thanks to Sheila (she is amazing) and we are once again Canadian regis……続きを見る

The Captain, Rick Cousins spent the winter retrofitting Audrey in McLean’s shipyard in Prince Rupert B.C. McLean’s shipyard is reputed to be one of the oldest working shipyards on the west coast. Th……続きを見る

Hurricane force winds mean it’s just another day on the west coast.We had weathered two such storms in Potts Lagoon, located towards the north end of Vancouver Island.These are the winds that flatte……続きを見る

We are aboard The Audrey Eleanor; a custom-built fifty-four foot 1948 wooden yacht headed north to Alaska. After a near disaster with two multi-million dollar U.S. yachts at the Prince Rupert Yacht ……続きを見る

It is a beautiful HOT spring day as we leave Juneau, Alaska (the capital city of Alaska) heading for Haines on the last leg of our trip to home moorage in Haines, Alaska. We are crewing our 1948 woo……続きを見る

We spend an uneasy night tucked slightly behind Aurther Island in Mathieson Channel. The hook is dropped, our only barricade from a Sou’ easter is a small log boom. There has been no defining wind d……続きを見る