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My name is Dawn Kostelnik and I am the White Girl, Mola ‘tu ‘we’/twa. In the 1960’s my father was hired by the Canadian Government to work as an Indian Agent in the tiny native village of Fort Norman, NWT. My father is known by the people on the river as Somba ralla; the moneylender. My life...

We are aboard The Audrey Eleanor; a custom-built fifty-four foot 1948 wooden yacht headed north to Alaska. After a near disaster with two multi-million dollar U.S. yachts at the Prince Rupert Yacht Club in Prince Rupert B.C. We are ready to take on Dixon Entrance. This is our first salt water crewing...

The Captain, Rick Cousins spent the winter retrofitting Audrey in McLean’s shipyard in Prince Rupert B.C. McLean’s shipyard is reputed to be one of the oldest working shipyards on the west coast. This a great place to be when you have an old boat. I had to return to Whitehorse, as our home there...

Don’t look now, but the Audrey Eleanor stands docked and beckoning you into these pages for some of the most absorbing, spellbinding and hilarious tales ever to float from the decks of a Canadian vessel. Masterfully employing a keen memory, a mariner’s perceptiveness and a flair for propelling...

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...

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 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...

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...

Saturday morning arrives muffled in grey. Not exactly fog, just silent and still water and pearly-silver sky. It is surreal, seeing sail boats float in the glimmering clouds…no I have not been smoking anything. Our next-door neighbour is a sailboat with a man attached to its mast. The man...

The Audrey Eleanor leaves Meyers Chuck, Alaska early in the afternoon. We have made plans to meet up with the “Jenny” and her crew, the floating dentist and his wife for cocktails, but the Inn was full. Anchoring looked to be a bit precarious so we felt it was best to head for the next horizon....