Following your ❤ and your dreams 🙏Cruising The west coast of Beautiful British Columbia in MV SKOOKUM1 (that i think is just the perfect size Trawler) Fresh Seafood 🦐🐟 each other and Ranger exploring B C 🤗🤩 PS: If you need a young Grampa deck hand (65) I'll be on the next Float Plane LOL
Thank you for the nice comments 🐕🦺🐕🦺⚓️. We sure do like the seafood we get 🦀🦀 and adventuring together! Hahah! If you like cleaning salty windows get on that float plane hahah 😆🤣😂
I'm an old man living far from the ocean, now in the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains. For 30 years, I have lived within 6 miles from the second largest river in Idaho, but it isn't like the ocean I miss. I lived for 25 years on San Juan Island in Washington with whales and eagles and salmon to eat a lot, but beginning in 1962, as a teenager and for the next 7 summers, I went up the AlCan, north by plane and several times up and down the Inside Passage from Friday Harbor to Seward on a small purse seiner. I've been to Ketchikan, Juneau, Warm Springs Bay, Petersburg, Wrangell, Pelican, Lituya Bay,, Pt, Gardner, Hoonah, Icy strait. I've seen gold speckled in ghost town walls on the west coast of Chichagof Island. I was in a 44-foot wooden boat, family owned. For the people who watch this video, cruising this Passage is a thrill of a lifetime with so many memories.
@user-sk7zc1fc5u wow you’ve seen a lot in your life, the ocean is amazing isn’t it. It’s alive and so full of life. We would like to spend time on the San Juan Islands oneday. It looks so beautiful 🤗. I hope oneday you can go back to the ocean and visit?
@@MVSKOOKUM1 Ten years ago, my wife and I and some friends went to the Oregon coast where I had to play in a group music contest. (I play mandolin and banjo.) My wife and I visited Newport, a town that used to really be into fishing. We toured the docks with fishing boats there. I enjoyed it because I knew the language of fishermen and crews on boats treated me like I was a part of their crew. One of the most interesting places coming down from Alaska was in the Canadian Dodd Narrows, which is where water falls over itself three feet. I had hoped to take a picture of that with my little camera, but it was so rough, while I was hanging on to the rails on our flying-bridge, that I had to just keep it as a memory. And I remember going through Seymour Narrows when the tide was probably doing 10 knots and we started at 8. Smaller boats had to wait longer for slack tide. Once coming south we hit the Narrows at night in the fog and in those days radar was not quite a thing yet. My job was to hang over the bow and look for the shore being too close. I could hear the big horns of the freighters around us. The rest of our crew of five had been eager to go home on a plane to see sweethearts, but I wanted adventure so more than once I was the only crew member from Seward to Puget Sound. I've been in the Gulf of Alaska, 50 miles offshore when the wind was blowing around 70 knots, and gold panned in Lituya Bay where an earlier earthquake had taken off all trees up to 400 feet on the mountainsides. And being 20, I was a little scared when I looked up from my gold-panning and saw a big brown bear standing up sniffing the air, some 100 yards from me. My new Winchester 30-30 looked mighty small, but luckily the wind was blowing from the bear to me so he went into the woods and I didn't do any more gold panning. Traveling in the San Juans is interesting but so is traveling in the Canadian San Juans coming south from Alaska. I've seen quite a lot in Puget Sound but by that time my much old brother had sold that Alaska purse seiner, that I had named the MV "Pat", when I was 12-years old in Friday Harbor. The next boat he had was an old 65-foot fish buyer on which I saw some of the Sound. The next boat was what I called a luxury fishing boat made into a fish buyer. It was a 58-foot Alaska-limit (Salmon-fishing boats over 58 feet long cannot get a license to fish in Alaska.) My family was always adventurous so I've seen places even in the Sound where most people don't go, like under the Deception Pass Bridge connecting two big islands, where the tide famously goes so fast. One of the most interesting places to see on the Alaska Coast is on the west side of Chichagof Island. There, in the 60's I got to see two ghost towns that mined millions of dollars worth of gold in the 30's. Since gold wasn't worth what it is now, I could see gold flakes all over the walls in an assay office. And there is a place, I think of one of the really big islands where we went from the ocean up a deep stream into a lake and then at a certain tide level we went into another big lake. I couldn't find it for years because I only have a Forest Service Map of Tongass Nat. Forest, but from looking at a nautical chart displayed on the boat I will discuss below, I found it. You should be able to go there. We did and we had a pretty deep draft. I think it was called Lake Anna. My first trip to Alaska was when my family worked on a fish-buying scow anchored at Noyes Island when I was 9, but though I had named the boat I would later work on, my parents wouldn't allow me to go north until I was 17. They thought it was dangerous. They were correct. You may have already viewed this, but there is a series of travels by Flemming Yacht Company. They use a 65-foot yacht called the "Venture" and they have toured Southeast and the Canadian coast extensively. They've gone to the Aleutians, up the Snake River to Idaho, to Iceland, Nova Scotia, the Netherlands. Since I'd seen several of the places they'd seen up the Inside Passage plus Prince William Sound, I wrote to the head CEO and we exchanged e-mails quite a lot. Their trips have amazing photography. If you haven't seen them just Google "Venture" in Alaska to start. Hope in your travels you get to see as much as I did and maybe even as much as "The Venture" did in their many travels, in Alaska. Thanks for writing back to me. And when I moved to Idaho to a county with 9000 foot peaks and the deepest canyon in North America, I explored everything I could but on foot with a pack, something than newcomers from other states rarely do, and you can even take your boat from the Pacific Ocean to within 80 miles from where I live, because Lewiston is Idaho's only seaport. But past Lewiston the river is one of the few big un-dammed rivers in the lower 48. I'm now a 78-year old widower not doing much adventuring but still living on 11 acres, 20 air miles from the largest wilderness area in the lower 48, with a creek and 7--10 deer who beg each morning for the wormy apples I feed them. Don't ever give up going on adventures.
Living the dream! This is exactly what i wish to do with my week off. Been saving for my nordhavn since I was a kid :) Thanks for the great video, and stay safe out there
Another great video! Thanks so much.👍Seeing some places I’ve been, and many I wish I had been to when living up north. Beauty of a Hali, perfect size, congrats. I love watching Rangers beach runs, lucky pooch.😁
It’s terrific following along. We’re on Vancouver Island. We look forward to boating up your way one day. Thanks for taking the time filming and editing. I love seeing the catch of the day!
Great episode. If you can show us some more of the scenery . Sure looks like lots of fun. You guys are so cool. Love Derrick's T-Shirt "Jamaica No Problem" Thanks for sharing.
Yes Derek got that shirt in Jamaica years ago! Haha. Reminds us to chill and relax sometimes. Glad you like the scenery stuff! I’m always worried people won’t want to see it 🌲🌴🌳
Glad you got such great weather. I love that run up or down Grenville Channel. So peaceful and serene....until a Huge cruise ship comes along. So many people say the ditch is Boring....to each his own I guess.....enjoy the rest of your trip. 😊
Derek, that is some fine filleting of that halibut. You guys are accomplished with your fishing and I would love to see a "how-to" video on the cleaning and filleting of your catch.
Skookum is 2004! Yes for Derek and I and the dog 40 is good . Right now we don’t live on Skookum but Oneday we plan too. Sometimes I think 3 more feet would be nice if we lived aboard but that’s $$$ a lot more money for three more feet. Thanks for watching our video!
Algorithm's...was searching this port and your video popped up...I'm a sub for your vlogs ! Any food or bar favorites of yours in Prince Rupert? Headed there in June
Oh that’s cool! Hahaha. Right by the marina down in Cow Bay we like going to Breakers Pub! It’s so nice on the water front. Good food too. Dollys seafood is yummy too! The Crest is more expensive but good dinners!
Another awesome video, thanks guys keep them coming!!
Thanks for watching us! 🤩🤩🥳
❤🧡💛❤🧡😍
Following your ❤ and your dreams 🙏Cruising The west coast of Beautiful British Columbia in MV SKOOKUM1
(that i think is just the perfect size Trawler) Fresh Seafood 🦐🐟 each other and Ranger exploring B C 🤗🤩
PS: If you need a young Grampa deck hand (65) I'll be on the next Float Plane
LOL
Thank you for the nice comments 🐕🦺🐕🦺⚓️. We sure do like the seafood we get 🦀🦀 and adventuring together! Hahah! If you like cleaning salty windows get on that float plane hahah 😆🤣😂
What a great fish.
Thank you! It was fun to catch! A good fight
Thank you two for sharing your lovely world beautiful loving travels there’s a smile from ear to ear a pleasant one;) Thank yous
Thank you!!!!
Great video! Cheers
Thank you!!!🐋🐋🐋🐋
Derek’s shirt - so appropriate - “extricate” yourself from work and into vacation time!! 😊. I really enjoy your adventures. Thanks for sharing!!
Yes I like that shirt of his lol! So true. Funny how work still tries to creep into the mind. Even out here in the ocean!
💙❤💙❤💙❤⚓
I'm an old man living far from the ocean, now in the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains. For 30 years, I have lived within 6 miles from the second largest river in Idaho, but it isn't like the ocean I miss. I lived for 25 years on San Juan Island in Washington with whales and eagles and salmon to eat a lot, but beginning in 1962, as a teenager and for the next 7 summers, I went up the AlCan, north by plane and several times up and down the Inside Passage from Friday Harbor to Seward on a small purse seiner. I've been to Ketchikan, Juneau, Warm Springs Bay, Petersburg, Wrangell, Pelican, Lituya Bay,, Pt, Gardner, Hoonah, Icy strait. I've seen gold speckled in ghost town walls on the west coast of Chichagof Island. I was in a 44-foot wooden boat, family owned. For the people who watch this video, cruising this Passage is a thrill of a lifetime with so many memories.
@user-sk7zc1fc5u wow you’ve seen a lot in your life, the ocean is amazing isn’t it. It’s alive and so full of life. We would like to spend time on the San Juan Islands oneday. It looks so beautiful 🤗. I hope oneday you can go back to the ocean and visit?
@user-sk7zc1fc5u Wow amazing you’ve been to so many neat places ⚓️
@@MVSKOOKUM1 Ten years ago, my wife and I and some friends went to the Oregon coast where I had to play in a group music contest. (I play mandolin and banjo.) My wife and I visited Newport, a town that used to really be into fishing. We toured the docks with fishing boats there. I enjoyed it because I knew the language of fishermen and crews on boats treated me like I was a part of their crew.
One of the most interesting places coming down from Alaska was in the Canadian Dodd Narrows, which is where water falls over itself three feet. I had hoped to take a picture of that with my little camera, but it was so rough, while I was hanging on to the rails on our flying-bridge, that I had to just keep it as a memory. And I remember going through Seymour Narrows when the tide was probably doing 10 knots and we started at 8. Smaller boats had to wait longer for slack tide. Once coming south we hit the Narrows at night in the fog and in those days radar was not quite a thing yet. My job was to hang over the bow and look for the shore being too close. I could hear the big horns of the freighters around us. The rest of our crew of five had been eager to go home on a plane to see sweethearts, but I wanted adventure so more than once I was the only crew member from Seward to Puget Sound.
I've been in the Gulf of Alaska, 50 miles offshore when the wind was blowing around 70 knots, and gold panned in Lituya Bay where an earlier earthquake had taken off all trees up to 400 feet on the mountainsides. And being 20, I was a little scared when I looked up from my gold-panning and saw a big brown bear standing up sniffing the air, some 100 yards from me. My new Winchester 30-30 looked mighty small, but luckily the wind was blowing from the bear to me so he went into the woods and I didn't do any more gold panning.
Traveling in the San Juans is interesting but so is traveling in the Canadian San Juans coming south from Alaska. I've seen quite a lot in Puget Sound but by that time my much old brother had sold that Alaska purse seiner, that I had named the MV "Pat", when I was 12-years old in Friday Harbor. The next boat he had was an old 65-foot fish buyer on which I saw some of the Sound. The next boat was what I called a luxury fishing boat made into a fish buyer. It was a 58-foot Alaska-limit (Salmon-fishing boats over 58 feet long cannot get a license to fish in Alaska.) My family was always adventurous so I've seen places even in the Sound where most people don't go, like under the Deception Pass Bridge connecting two big islands, where the tide famously goes so fast.
One of the most interesting places to see on the Alaska Coast is on the west side of Chichagof Island. There, in the 60's I got to see two ghost towns that mined millions of dollars worth of gold in the 30's. Since gold wasn't worth what it is now, I could see gold flakes all over the walls in an assay office. And there is a place, I think of one of the really big islands where we went from the ocean up a deep stream into a lake and then at a certain tide level we went into another big lake. I couldn't find it for years because I only have a Forest Service Map of Tongass Nat. Forest, but from looking at a nautical chart displayed on the boat I will discuss below, I found it. You should be able to go there. We did and we had a pretty deep draft. I think it was called Lake Anna.
My first trip to Alaska was when my family worked on a fish-buying scow anchored at Noyes Island when I was 9, but though I had named the boat I would later work on, my parents wouldn't allow me to go north until I was 17. They thought it was dangerous. They were correct.
You may have already viewed this, but there is a series of travels by Flemming Yacht Company. They use a 65-foot yacht called the "Venture" and they have toured Southeast and the Canadian coast extensively. They've gone to the Aleutians, up the Snake River to Idaho, to Iceland, Nova Scotia, the Netherlands. Since I'd seen several of the places they'd seen up the Inside Passage plus Prince William Sound, I wrote to the head CEO and we exchanged e-mails quite a lot. Their trips have amazing photography. If you haven't seen them just Google "Venture" in Alaska to start.
Hope in your travels you get to see as much as I did and maybe even as much as "The Venture" did in their many travels, in Alaska. Thanks for writing back to me. And when I moved to Idaho to a county with 9000 foot peaks and the deepest canyon in North America, I explored everything I could but on foot with a pack, something than newcomers from other states rarely do, and you can even take your boat from the Pacific Ocean to within 80 miles from where I live, because Lewiston is Idaho's only seaport. But past Lewiston the river is one of the few big un-dammed rivers in the lower 48.
I'm now a 78-year old widower not doing much adventuring but still living on 11 acres, 20 air miles from the largest wilderness area in the lower 48, with a creek and 7--10 deer who beg each morning for the wormy apples I feed them. Don't ever give up going on adventures.
Great trip
Thank you!!!
Great episode! thanks for sharing!! Be safe Skookum crew!! 👍👍👊👊
Tack för ett mycket bra avsnitt 🤗
än du för att värna oss! ☺️🤗👍🧝♀️
Dibs on the fish smacker ! I love to beach comb.
Me too! Beachcombing is fun. Even though most of it is junk stuff hahah. Sometimes we find useful things!
Oh, you guys! I am WAY past the green with envy stage! What a great video! Can’t wait for the next episode.
Thanks for always following us Ron!!!!
Nice Halibut!! WOW!!👀👀👍👍👊👊
We are so grateful to get that halibut 🙌
@@MVSKOOKUM1 👍👍
Yeah - that’s for posting this video. I always look forward to your adventures or just sitting in the boat and chilling!!
Thanks so much! Glad you like to watch our little adventures! We hope to get out more this summer. Work gets in the way! Haha
Wow, what a fantastic way to spend some days off. One day I hope to explore BC's coast line as well. Thx for taking us along on ur adventures.
Thanks for watching us! The coast is so nice. Feels like a different world out there. So much to see!
Living the dream! This is exactly what i wish to do with my week off. Been saving for my nordhavn since I was a kid :) Thanks for the great video, and stay safe out there
Thank u! We love our Nordhavn. It’s a dream for us to. Derek has worked his way up through 9 boats lol. Finally have our dream boat
Great shots & cute dog.
Thanks Jarrett! Ranger is our fishing boat dog! He loves boating and whales and fish. He goes crazy for them haha. Jen
Nice Tiger Rockfish!! 👊👊👍👍
We rarely catch tiger rockfish. It’s the second one Derek’s ever caught!
@@MVSKOOKUM1 nice job! 👍👍
Love it, you guys rock!!
we enjoy it so much!
Another great video! Thanks so much.👍Seeing some places I’ve been, and many I wish I had been to when living up north. Beauty of a Hali, perfect size, congrats. I love watching Rangers beach runs, lucky pooch.😁
He is one lucky dog! All the city slicker dogs are missing out on barnacle beach runs lol
WOW nice salmon!! sheesh 👍👍👊👊
It wasn’t easy to bring in! Lol
@@MVSKOOKUM1 👍👍bet it was a fun fight!
It’s terrific following along. We’re on Vancouver Island. We look forward to boating up your way one day. Thanks for taking the time filming and editing. I love seeing the catch of the day!
Thank you. We love Vancouver island! I grew up in Ladysmith 🧝♀️. Boating up the coast is amazing. So much to see!
Great episode. If you can show us some more of the scenery . Sure looks like lots of fun. You guys are so cool. Love Derrick's T-Shirt "Jamaica No Problem" Thanks for sharing.
Yes Derek got that shirt in Jamaica years ago! Haha. Reminds us to chill and relax sometimes. Glad you like the scenery stuff! I’m always worried people won’t want to see it 🌲🌴🌳
Glad you got such great weather. I love that run up or down Grenville Channel. So peaceful and serene....until a Huge cruise ship comes along. So many people say the ditch is Boring....to each his own I guess.....enjoy the rest of your trip. 😊
Thank you! We like cruising up narrow channels. Feels cozier. Especially when the sun is shining and the water is calm
Derek, that is some fine filleting of that halibut. You guys are accomplished with your fishing and I would love to see a "how-to" video on the cleaning and filleting of your catch.
Sure that’s a good idea! We have one video that Derek uses an electric fillet knife to clean salmon. I can’t remember what video that’s on ! Lol.
That looked like a great trip. Been trying to get there now for a bit but between work and weather we haven't made it to Welcome Harbor. Soon we hope
Welcome Harbour is so neat! Love it in there!
Now thats the best way to shop, super vid thank you.
Thanks for watching! Love shopping on beaches. One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure lol
Fish looks delicious! 😋👍👍
It was so fresh and tasty! Even Ranger got some fish skin and licked our plates clean hahah 😛
@@MVSKOOKUM1 i bet he did lucky dog hehe :) 👍👍
Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦
Bedankt voor het kijken naar ons!
Great video! what year is your Nordvn and do you find the 40 large enough for two to live in for weeks at a time?
Skookum is 2004! Yes for Derek and I and the dog 40 is good . Right now we don’t live on Skookum but Oneday we plan too. Sometimes I think 3 more feet would be nice if we lived aboard but that’s $$$ a lot more money for three more feet. Thanks for watching our video!
Algorithm's...was searching this port and your video popped up...I'm a sub for your vlogs ! Any food or bar favorites of yours in Prince Rupert? Headed there in June
Oh that’s cool! Hahaha. Right by the marina down in Cow Bay we like going to Breakers Pub! It’s so nice on the water front. Good food too. Dollys seafood is yummy too! The Crest is more expensive but good dinners!
@MV SKOOKUM1 sounds good ...breakers it is .... we cannot wait to see this area during our cruise ..never been to Canada !
It’s so beautiful! The mountains and beauty
@MV SKOOKUM1 gonna try a charter fishing trip hopefully as well ...cheers you two 🤙🏾
That would be so much fun! The fishing is amazing in Rupert!
Did you find a good spot for our "Alone" debut? 😉😉
Yes a few! We might starve to death on some of these cool areas haha. Well we can bring some fish hooks lol
Dogs have “sea sick” ?
Yes he gets nauseated sometimes. Dogs drool lots and he gets sleepy. I have Travel Ease pills for Ranger when he gets like that!
Is that a Canadian thing a Boot?
It must be haha. Derek seems to find boots everywhere lol