Cruising Alaska's Inside Passage in the Spring

We live four seasons aboard our sailboat in Alaska, and this episode follows a real cruising stretch through Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage. We start by making our way toward Warm Springs Bay on Baranof Island, running through big Southeast Alaska water, strong currents, shifting light, and the kind of weather window you appreciate. From Portage Bay, past Admiralty Island, across Chatham Strait, and into Warm Springs, this is the rhythm of cruising Alaska by boat. After a stop at Warm Springs, we continue on toward Kake, Alaska, where boat life meets small-town Southeast Alaska culture. We walk the harbor, look at a. job and visit with the locals (not filmed), and experience what it means to move through these communities by water. Atz Kilcher is aboard with us for this stretch, and somewhere along the way he gives Scott the perfect title: a “circuit sailor” traveling town to town, helping people, making friends, taking photographs, fixing things, and living connected to the places we pass through. This is not polished marina cruising. This is real Alaska liveaboard life: reading currents, cooking dinner underway, arriving in the dark, waking up in new harbors, meeting people, and continuing toward Rocky Pass. Thanks for following along with our Alaskan Gypsy Life.