Alaska Charter Itinerary

Alaska Itinerary

Alaska Yacht Charter
The Inside Passage is a thousand miles of sheltered water behind a wall of islands, and the stretch between Juneau and Sitka is the best of it. There are no roads. Everything ’ the towns, the hot springs, the glaciers ’ is reached by water or not at all.





Summer here means eighteen hours of light, humpbacks feeding cooperatively in Chatham Strait, and brown bears turning over rocks at low tide. It also means rain, which is what grows the Tongass, the largest temperate rainforest on earth. Bring the right coat and stop worrying about it.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Alaska; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Juneau

Juneau is the only state capital in America unreachable by road. Take the Mendenhall Glacier in the morning ’ a river of ice ending in a lake, retreating measurably each year ’ then the tram up Mount Roberts for the view down Gastineau Channel. Board in the afternoon and run south for Tracy Arm.
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Day 2

Tracy Arm

Tracy Arm is a fjord thirty miles long and, in places, a quarter mile wide, with granite walls polished smooth by the ice that cut them. Bergs drift down it, blue and grounded and slowly turning. At the head, the twin Sawyer glaciers calve into the sea with a report like gunfire. Seals pup on the floes.
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Day 3

Admiralty Island

The Tlingit call it Kootznoowoo ’ fortress of the bears ’ and it holds more brown bears than the whole of the lower forty-eight combined, roughly one per square mile. Watch them work the tideline at low water, flipping boulders for crabs. Cannery Cove keeps the ruins of a 1920s salmon operation, rusting into the forest.
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Day 4

Gambier Bay

Deeper into Admiralty and Gambier Bay, a maze of islets, reefs and grass flats with nothing on the chart but soundings. This is kayak country: paddle quietly and you will see Sitka black-tailed deer at the water’s edge, eagles overhead, and, at a respectful distance, more bears. The Tongass closes in on all sides.
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Day 5

Baranof Warm Springs

Across Chatham Strait to Baranof, where geothermal water surfaces beside a hundred-foot waterfall. There are three tubs on the boardwalk and a natural pool up the trail. Soak, with the cold air on your face and the falls filling the whole valley with noise. Otters and eagles work the bay below.
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Day 6

Chatham Strait & Peril Strait

Chatham Strait is one of the great whale grounds. Humpbacks bubble-net feed here through the summer ’ a learned, cooperative behaviour practised by only a few hundred animals anywhere. Drop the hydrophone and listen to them coordinate it. Then into Peril Strait, and an anchorage at Appleton Cove for the last night.
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Day 7

Sitka

Sitka was the capital of Russian America, and St Michael’s Cathedral with its onion dome still stands in the middle of the street. Totem Park sets Tlingit poles along a forest path by the sea. Puffins, sea otters and sea lions offshore. The Pacific starts here, and the week ends looking straight at it.
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