Our 2025 cruising season bore a remarkable similarity to 2024, the same number of cruising days (122), similar number of engine hours (530 in 2024 versus 520 in 2025) and miles traveled (3,091 in 2024 versus 3,099 in 2025. We did leave a bit later (May 4 in 2024 versus May 16 in 2025) and anchor out a bit more (73 days in 2024 versus 78 days in 2025).
One thing we tried to do was visit (or at least anchor) in different spots. A new destination for us was Ford’s Terror off of Endicott Arm. But, we also managed to use different stops while traversing mostly the same routes. Overall, we recorded 13 new sites that we hadn’t used in past years. We may not visit them every year but we now have 384 different places in which we have either anchored, tied to a buoy or tied to a dock. It makes planning routes and stops a lot easier with a long list of choices to draw on.
| 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 | ||
| 2025 | 122 | 78 | 43 | 3,099 | 520.2 | 33.3 | 29.3 | ||
| 1,846 | 1,179 | 618 | 32 | 51,409 | 8736.8 | 565.2 | 477.2 |
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, 1,829, is 17 short of the total number of days, 1,846. The difference is the 15 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 overnight passages and did not stop.
The “Time Idling” is the total of the estimated hours during a day spent trolling for salmon, servicing prawn pots, or sightseeing (e.g., whale activity or glacier viewing). I make these estimates to give me a better idea of my true cruising speed.
Below is a map of our stops in the 2025 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 2025. 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.
As a word of caution, the location of the mark shown on the map is an “average” of ALL the stops and may not actually represent the location ANY one stop. For destinations that are popular, we may have dropped that anchor at many different places and the average spot isn’t the best or even a safe spot to anchor.
