Alaska Small Ship Cruises and Alaska Yacht Charters 

Aboard URSA MAJOR

  
THE CRUISE SHIP ALTERNATIVE

ALASKA SCHEDULE 2008     BAJA SCHEDULE 2008-2009

Come to Alaska for Whalewatching, Eagles, Bears, Kayaking, Fishing, and 

  REAL ALASKAN CRUISES

Frommer's Coauthor Heide Sarna says in AARP The Magazine May/June 2008  "On the big ships Alaska's landscape is the backdrop to the ship's diversions, not the main attraction," "The Smaller the Better, if you want a more up-close look."

Cruise Aboard Your Own Private Yacht Charter instead of Cruise Ships and See the REAL Alaska Up Close and Personal  from People Who Love and Know Alaska because

"Friends Don't Let Friends See Alaska From a Cruise Ship"   

Cruise a LEGEND, the FAMOUS URSA MAJOR

 Featured in

THE WASHINGTON POST October 2005 Travel Section and selected with our cooperating vessels as one of the best ways to to see Alaska by Travel and Leisure Magazine August 2007!

.....COME ABOARD AND LEARN OF HER TIME IN THE MAFIA, IN THE AMERICA'S CUP IN NEWPORT IN 1977, AND NOW BE A PART OF THE STORIES THAT GET PUBLISHED ABOUT HER ADVENTURES UNDER CHARTER WITH YOU ABOARD!        MAKE YOUR TRIP TO ALASKA A SPECIAL MEMORY not just another cruise trip!

• PASSAGEMAKER MAGAZINE   (FEB 2002, APRIL 2002, OCT 2003, AUG 2004, SEPT 2005)   Online orders for articles can now be placed with Passagemaker Magazine or Purchase of back copies at their website www.passagemaker.com).    

• POWER AND MOTORYACHT MAGAZINE (FEB 2003, JULY 2004)

• WOMEN ABOARD ONLINE MAGAZINE  (SEPT 2001)

• Canoe and Kayak   Mothership Kayaking (dEC 2003)

• SEA MAGAZINE (NW Edition)  (JULY 2003)

• BUSINESS WEEK (June 21, 2004)

• INTERNATIONAL YACHT VACATIONS AND CHARTERS  

• WAVELENGTH MAGAZINE (Feb/March 2005)   

• THE WASHINGTON POST,  October 2, 2005 Travel Section  

• Idaho IQ Magazine April 2006   

• Anchorage Daily News Oct 8, 2006 

• TRAVEL AND LEISURE MAGAZINE August 2007 

• DIVERSIONS MAGAZINE   OCTOBER 2007

Click to view Power and Motoryacht 2003 article

Click to view Women Aboard article

Click to view Power and Motoryacht 2004 article

Click to view International Yacht Vacations and Charters

Click to view Wavelength Magazine

Click to view Business Week Article

Click to View The Washington Post Article

Click to View The Anchorage Daily News Article

WELCOME ABOARD Ursa Major's Crewed Yacht Charters in  Southeast Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (AND NOW IN BAJA!)  offering custom tailored itineraries and sumptuous gourmet menus.     Ursa Major  was  launched and outfitted  in 1972 at the Malahide shipyards in Dublin, Ireland on a rock solid wooden hull built in Norway.   With her classic Old World charm, solid North Sea Construction and warm European ambiance she is the perfect "little ship" for  charter cruising and epitomizes the True Trawler Yacht as described by Bob Lane in Passagemaker Magazine (February 2002 and April 2002).