Mark your calendars! Following our upcoming season in Alaska, the Ursa Major will once again be part of the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington on September 8-10, 2017,…
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Category Archives: Alaska Wildlife Viewing
Recently, Captain Josh has been in contact with Steve Van Cleve, (Marrowstone Isle, Washington), who worked as crew aboard the Ursa Major when she transited the Panama Canal in the…
Local artist and salmon fisherman Tom Crestodina has just completed his second collection of drawings of the Ursa Major. This time, Tom focused on the interior and exterior layout, and...
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Happy New Year everyone! For the past 17 charter seasons aboard the Ursa Major, we had have a wide variety of trawler and boating enthusiasts join us for our annual…
The above photo and corresponding article are courtesy of Martha Sudarsky Kristy, whose father Daniel Sudarsky owned the Ursa Major in 1973, and took his family to Nova Scotia aboard…
Captain Josh took this drone video while the Ursa Major was anchored at Green Island, British Columbia, on our southbound Inside Passage Trawler Training Trip from Petersburg, Alaska to Seattle,…
Three articles written by “Juneau Empire” reporter Klas Stolpe about the Ursa Major have recently become available online following their original publication in 2013. Klaus was aboard Ursa Major in…
We are getting ready to push away from the dock and head to Alaska! Seattle has given us a great bon voyage party in the form of several sunny days,…
In April 2016, Ursa Major Charters was certified as a sustainable tourism business in Alaska through the Adventure Green Alaska program, and is considered a leader in the Alaska travel…
We visited the Tracey Arm/Ford’s Terror Wilderness Area again in July 2015 on a charter trip, and captured this amazing video of the tidal rapids at Ford’s Terror at (nearly)…