Hello, all! I have a Aquarius 21 that a friend and I plan to take on a trip from our home in the South
Puget Sound area to visit some
family of mine in Ketchikan,
Alaska via the inside
passage the summer of 2014. It is a
single masted fractional
sloop for which I have the main, a full
jib, two storm jibs, a
genoa, and a spinaker. Have any of you taken a similar trip with a comparable vessel and can share your experience? This would be our first long cruising voyage so I am interested mostly in what type of supplies to pack, beyond the obvious essentials, and if anyone has an estimate as to about how long the trip will take. Also, I need to
purchase and
outboard motor for it and I have heard that due to the prevailingly southern winds, it is necessary to do a lot of motoring. Can anyone suggest an appropriate
motor? One with good
fuel economy rather than excessive
power would be preferable. This would be a round trip experience, but we can of course resupply along the way and before heading back south again.