Wrangell Harbor Walk | Commercial Boats, Liveaboards & Our First Morning Afloat

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:43:02 +0000

First morning waking up on the water aboard our steel schooner, the Alaskan Gypsy — tied up in Wrangell’s Heritage Harbor after launch. We decided to stretch our legs, walk the docks, and bring you along on a casual harbor tour for our YouTube fam.

No script. No plan. Just gulls singing, boats of every flavor (commercial fishing vessels, gillnetters, sailboats, liveaboards, working craft), some boat-for-sale gems, and a few rain squalls in true Southeast Alaska fashion. Somewhere along the way, we met kind strangers turned friends. Tim and Donna are kind souls with an incredibly unique unstayed, freestanding carbon-fiber-masted schooner (a Freedom-style rig you rarely see, especially in small Alaska harbors). One of those unexpected “harbor magic” moments was connecting with them and hearing stories of the sea! Soon after we left them, we met up with another friend who has a pretty amazing float house, used as a hunting platform! One of the charms of small, Alaska towns.

We didn’t finish the whole harbor (the weather and talking deterred us), but we covered a lot — and we hope to be back for Part Two.
Thanks for walking the docks with us ❤️
— Audrey + Scott
@TheAlaskanGypsyLife

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Wrangell, Alaska
00:24 Starting the harbor walk
01:08 Harbor overview & duck greetings
02:22 Unique steel sailboat
03:28 Classic SE Alaska troll boats
04:47 Fiberglass sailboat under cover
05:24 Tug-style liveaboard boats
05:58 Kingfishers & charter boats
06:56 Beautiful aluminum build
08:01 Gillnetters & off-season setups
09:53 Little Darling & liveaboard style
10:49 Sailboat for sale
11:55 Svensson Marine landing craft
12:46 Working fiberglass boats
14:05 Modern gillnetters
15:23 Floating cabin surprise
16:33 More aluminum builds & trawlers
17:38 Famous Homer “Jewel” connection
18:08 Clementine’s big cabin
19:01 Boats for sale
19:28 Tongue Point visitors
20:15 Wild aluminum/steel sailboat
20:57 More commercial boats
21:17 Rain squalls hit
22:07 Classic steel boats
24:18 Wooden schooner
24:47 Gillnetter for sale
25:42 More commercial boats
26:21 Unusual hybrid troller
27:21 More fingers to walk
28:01 Meeting Donna & Tim
29:28 Touring the Archangel schooner
31:26 Inside the carbon-fiber-mast boat
37:05 Winter stories & storms
42:04 Wrapping up the tour
44:15 Back to the harbor walk
45:07 Houseboat hunting cabin reveal
46:12 Seeing friends & family connections
47:42 Final stretch of the harbor
49:40 Thank you for joining us