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docked and/or anchored in the harbour at any one time,
offering quite a sight in a narrow channel. A couple of days
were spent exploring Juneau and the surrounding area,
including a hike to the Mendenhall Glacier, popular with
the visitors on the cruise liners due to the ease of access.
We also met with Jake Legvold of S/V In Your Dreams,
another ex-HHYC boat. Jake had recently left his home
in Anchorage and is slowly sailing his way down the west
coast to Miami via the Panama Canal where he will start
work with American Airlines next year.
After a few years of urging and coaxing by our friends, Dave
and Dorothy Nagle, we finally booked flights, packed bags,
sent our daughter to stay with grandma in Europe, and were
on our way to Juneau, Alaska for two weeks.
Dave and Dorothy have been living and cruising on their
boat, a 48ft Diesel Duck, DavidEllis, for eight years. It was
built by Seahorse Marine, also builder of current and former
HHYC boats, Rhianna, Yee Lai and Sun Wah. DavidEllis was
delivered to Hong Kong in 2006 and visited Hebe Haven
on numerous occasions while cruising Southeast Asia until
it departed for Seattle via Japan, the Aleutian Islands and
Alaska in 2009.
The Good Ship DavidEllis
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A second Diesel Duck to join in the later part of the cruise
with us was Shearwater, who is owned by David Cohn. She
had a brief stay in Hebe Haven, arriving December 2012, and
was commissioned over the next few months before sailing
off into the sunset for the West Coast of the US via Hawaii
in April 2013. Dave Nagle was also on board as one of four
crewmembers for the long trip to Seattle.
Welcome committee...
Shearwater upon arrival at Hebe Haven Yacht Club in 2012
After a horrendously long flight, we flew into Juneau, the
capital of Alaska, and were immediately struck by the dramatic
scenery with the Mendenhall Glacier looming large and the
thrill of the Kai Tak–like landing at Juneau International Airport,
jolting me back to life after 26 hours of travel. It’s not often that
you land at an international airport on a Boeing 737 next to a
waterway with scores of float planes.
Juneau is a major destination port for the large cruise
liners in the summer and there are often three or four ships
View from the tarmac at Juneau airport with the
Mendenhall Glacier in the background
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