2026 Annual Wrap Up

With regards to the “numbers”, our 2026 cruise was pretty typical. It did seem as though we cruised a bit slower. I probably subconsciously dropped our cruising RPM from the 1500’s to the 1400’s to save some of the very expensive diesel fuel in our tanks. Also, the percentage of days at dock was higher than in most years (41% versus an average of 34%), We had two separate periods of nine consecutive days at a dock (both for different unplanned reasons) which really bumped our total number of nights on the dock up.

We continue to try to visit (or at least anchor) in different spots.  We used 11 new sites that we hadn’t visited before. Some were locations well documented in guide books, others were in spots that I had previously seen boats (often via AIS) anchoring in. Our list of destinations now stands at 396.

Below is the summary of our sixteen seasonal cruises in Alpenglow.

	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
	2026	134	76	55	2	3,332	563.1	28.8	19.1
		1,980	1,255	673	34	54,741	9299.9	594.0	496.3

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, 1,962, is 18 short of the total number of days, 1980. The difference is the 16 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 and tracks in the 2026 cruising season. Clicking on one of the “dropped pins” will pull up some information about the stop. The tracks change in color as a aid to see each day’s route and the color doesn’t signify anything in particular. As these tracks are our actual route and not our intended route, you may notice deviations from a straight path to accommodate other vessel traffic, sea conditions, temporary stops in order time a narrows, or fishing. 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 2026. 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 of ANY one stop. For destinations that are popular, we may have dropped the anchor at many different places and the average spot isn’t the best or even a safe spot to anchor.