Video--Hunkydory in the Yukon & Alaska

ffheap · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:02 am Post subject:

Jay and Jo Lee,

What a great trip. Taking the trip when a lot of "pros" say it can't be done adds a lot to the adventure. It is trips like this that make cruising worth while. I hope that I can shake loose from Innkeeping soon so as to do some of these adventures. Having a chart and then "reading the river", reading and studing materials before going adds to the adventure.

What is your next adventure?

Thank you for sharing with us.

Fred

Captains Cat · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

J&J, great pix. I gotta ask, forgive me if others have already, was that a one way trip or did you have to go back UP through the rapids...?? Shocked

Any groundings or damage?

Charlie

Sea Wolf · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:59 am Post subject:

NEW C-BRAT SURVEY;

WENCH

OR

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WINDLASS

VOTE FOR ONE (OR TWO IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT)

Hunkydory · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:34 am Post subject:

Hunkydory · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

[quote="Sea Wolf"]NEW C-BRAT SURVEY;

WENCH

OR

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WINDLASS

Joe---was looking for the point to the this post. Then noticed there was definitely two.

Jo-Lee says "We can't afford the windlass and you definitely can't afford the wench if you want to keep a remote place traveling companion or other wise present companion".

Jay

Hunkydory · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:57 pm Post subject:

These videos of our first Alaska trip with our C-Dory, I first put on YouTube, but the quality was so bad I then uploaded them to a higher quality site, that I had to pay $100 a year for 250 minutes of video access storage. Due to the cost, I dropped the storage & that has made these videos & our 2004 Alaska cruise videos un viewable. These are links to the original YouTube postings of this quite extraordinary cruise for two very inexperienced boaters, though the video clarity quality remains a distraction for me. We now wonder just what made us think we were capable of making such a trip & marvel at its success.

Part 1 http://youtu.be/PdixAA0sKqA
Part 2 http://youtu.be/rc1Fzm2BTj8
Part 3 http://youtu.be/MxmnyfhXEb4

Jay

joefish · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject:

Jay that was awesome!

It's funny you mention your inexperience. The whole time I'm watching the videos I'm thinking, "This couple really knows what they're doing." I love adventure and that was impressive!

Thanks for sharing, again. Thumbs Up

Hunkydory · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:43 am Post subject:

Joe,

It's been eight years since I originally posted this video + three more on top of that when we made the trip, so as I stated at the start of this thread we were very inexperienced with a boat the size of a CD22 for this kind of adventure. Even now with our being very experienced with our boat, running the CD 22 on the river where we went in this video is something we would probably be more hesitate to do now than then, especially with the time restraints involved at that point of the trip. As the saying goes "sometimes ignorance is bliss", but as a cautionary note to others who may be at the place we were then & considering such an adventure, the success was not all luck. Even though our experience with a boat the size of a CD22 was almost non existent, we had a lifetime of doing things together, years of experience on rivers & lakes with canoe & rib & me many years experience in solo high risk wilderness endeavors. Being very high energy at that time we packed into 28 days more than many will do in years or ever.

Thanks for your comments & glad you enjoyed the video.

Jay