No Bears, None

We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since 2016.  After returning from our Pacific circumnavigation in 2020, we explored  the west coast of Canada.

In the spring of 2024,  we decided to try to sail northward towards Southeast Alaska, covering 1800 NM. The highest we sailed on this trip was 57°N, the latitude of Peril Strait near Sitka in Southeast Alaska. Like with Busy Doing Nothing, we kept a physical logbook of daily happenings onboard. 

Upon our return to Victoria, we transcribed the handwritten pages, so we could publish them online. We later decided to expand on the log, to release it as a digital book(available as mobi, pdf, epub and kepub). We revised all of the text, expanded on specific logs, and added:

• Over 100 new drawings
• 17 new sections: Galley, Take-Make-Waste, No Windlass, Foul-Weather Gear, Western Canadian Rapids, Phone Aloft, Sprouting, The Challenges of Coastal Sailing, Jellyfish, A Path to Caring, Solar Cooking, Lactofermentation, Teapot and Iggy, On Rowing a 33-Foot Boat, Staying Warm, Reycling and Garbage, and An Overreliance on Electronic Systems.
• 13 recipes

No Bears, None is 260 pages long, written in English, and formatted for e-readers. The first version is still available to read online, but doesn't include the newer content, illustrations and revised text. Buying this publication is a way to support us, we put a lot of work into it, and we hope you like it!

We also plan to release a print edition of the book this coming fall!

Rek & Devine