Dawn Kostelnik: 77 books

…she had tried to tie herself to a wall in the rolling galley. The thought of leaving Shearwater by sea is too traumatic. If I am jumping ship this is my last chance to do so. Shearwater is located on Denny Island across the water from Bella Bella, a native seaside community located...

We are docked at the government wharf in Deep Bay on Vancouver Island.The Coast Guard weather report is calling for another night of hurricane force winds after a night of record snowfall in an area that didn’t expect it. We sit in the dark and wait, the lights on the dock fade in and out...

For a quick escape into the wilder, wilderness of Alaska aboard the ‘speed demon’ Audrey Eleanor takes approximately 2 hours and is roughly 30 K. We love to cruise behind Sullivan Island, south of Haines, Alaska and swing on the hook for few days of solitude. The warmth of friends who...

In the previous Adventure, The Audrey Eleanor managed to navigate Whiterock passage and find moorage at the government dock at Read Island. The owner of the little country store has invited the crew to come ashore and visit her island home… Stone staircases lead upward from the rock walkway we...

It is a beautiful HOT spring day as we leave Juneau, Alaska (the capital city of Alaska) heading for Haines on the last leg of our trip to home moorage in Haines, Alaska. We are crewing our 1948 wooden Yacht, the Audrey Eleanor from Prince Rupert, B.C. Canada. The sky is a brilliant blue that...

Audrey pulled away her moorage in Haines, Alaska on July 26, 2006. Haines was difficult to leave; we’d established wonderful friendships on the docks and in the community as well. Richard from the Eleanor S would no longer commission us to spy on his daughter, she sometimes spent the night onboard...

There are few women who live on the docks. When I happened to meet these women there an instant kindred connection. Our conversations are about boating, but with a feminine twist. One of my many rants to my kids is; the more you know, the less you will learn. It is great to listen to the experiences...

As the stories of the Adventures of The Audrey Eleanor appear in the Whitehorse Star, a century old newspaper that serves the Yukon and parts of Alaska, more and more people want to know more about “her” and the future of the series. What is she (make and model), where did she come from...

In the last episode the Robert S, an ex navy coastguard cutter/gunboat is on a high-speed collision course with the Audrey Eleanor. The great grey bow of the Robert S is bearing down on the Audrey Eleanor. People are screaming,” stop, stop!” A young man in his late twenties has been flung...

Well hello there, how are you doing, my it’s been a long, long time…how are we doing, well I guess we’re doing fine. Our adventures are sounding like an old country and western song. Do you remember my mentioning that a person should pay attention to signs, gut feelings or places with names...

In the previous storey we left you while we were floating under the stars in the hot tub. There is a small community in Squirrel Cove. The general store is well stocked and has a decent marine hardware section. This is our introduction to “the oyster man”, he is located on Cortes Island...

Word has gotten out that Tracey Arm rivals Glacier Bay for magnificent glaciers and stunning scenery.The ice walls calve and collapse into the ocean with a force that creates huge resounding waves.Waves which tinkle the neon blue icebergs like giant ice cubes mingling in a crystal glass.This solid...

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, ANOTHER ONES GONE AND ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST! The Captain has trapped one more of the plague carrying varmints that we picked up while being on a dock below a hotel in Pender Harbour. Rats! This word alone conjures up images of black menacing figures that slither...

I remember bits and pieces of a song that go something like,” she got the goldmine and all I got was the shaft.” Don’t remember who sang it, or the name of the song. I recall stains of this lament drifted on the spring air after a long hard and dark winter in the Yukon. A similar version...