Wrapping up Alaska Cruise 2024

Our 2024 cruise bore a remarkable resemblance to 2023.  While we left a week later, we still managed to attend the Little Norway Festival in Petersburg, Alaska in the middle of May.  In both years we spent about 60% of our nights anchored and 40% on the docks. The miles covered were similar (3,091 in 2024 versus 3,025 in 2023).  The shortened trip was largely due to the 13 days in August for the haul out in Port Townsend.

Year	# of Days	At Anchor	At a Dock	On a Buoy	Distance Traveled	Engine Hours	Gen. Hours	Time Idling
2010	129	57	66	5	3,221	517.1	40.4
2011	115	81	33		3,465	577.4	31.3
2013	151	99	50	1	3,667	630.0	53.3
2014	141	86	48	6	4,052	720.8	34.8	48.5
2015	104	67	31	5	3,580	629.2	28.7	42.4
2016	141	99	39	2	3,979	700.0	51.9	68.6
2017	140	91	46	2	3,817	656.5	62.2	51.1
2018	112	71	40		3,170	528.6	33.9	38.2
2019	118	82	35		3,816	649.5	16.3	56.6
2020	63	42	12	6	2,527	399.7	32.8	11.5
2021	110	81	26	2	3,317	554.0	66.0	27.5
2022	139	88	47	3	3,584	613.6	19.5	42.9
2023	139	84	54		3,024	510.4	36.0	33.7
2024	122	73	48		3,091	529.8	24.8	26.9
	1,724	1,101	575	32	48,310	8216.6	531.9	447.9

As a footnote to the table above, if you add up the nightly stops (at anchor, at a dock or on a buoy), the total, 1,708, is 16 short of the total number of days, 1,724. The difference is the 14 days at the end of the trip when I don’t count the night we return to our homeport and two days in 2020 during Covid when we did an overnight passage and did not stop.

Below is a map of our stops in the 2024 cruising season. Clicking on one of the “dropped pins” will pull up some information about the stop. At the top right of the map is an icon which will open a separate window that may be easier to navigate.

The map below shows all of the places we have stopped overnight during all our cruises through 2024. It is similar in style to our yearly cruise map except that when the marker for a particular spot is selected, the data for the spot is the total number of times we’ve stayed and in which years.