Risk and reward are inexorably linked in many areas of life. Nowhere is this truer than in cruising. Reaching some of the world’s most beautiful, unspoiled cruising grounds often involves challenging open-water passages or narrow, difficult channels. It is precisely these risks that make the rewards that much sweeter.
One such place is Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska. Getting there from the Pacific Northwest starts with a nearly 700-mile Inside Passage run from Seattle to Ketchikan, Alaska. A good deal of this leg is in relatively low-risk, protected water, but there are a witches’ brew of pitfalls, including tidal rapids, floating logs, the infamously windy Johnstone Strait, and
