Dressed for the girls

Yep - those of you who followed our earlier blogs, way back in the early days of our voyage, will have relished stories about when we were a crew of three. Back then we home-educated Henry onboard Sänna whilst we sailed the tropics making our way around-the-world... and now Bealy is fifteen, we're in Alaska and he splits his time between ourselves and his dad back in England. Of course, his mom is still special and whenever he can he's back with us onboard. And why not? Those days were and still are special to each of us.

We've just spent two more fantastic months, the three of us, sailing from Sitka to Hoonah in Alaska... a sail that took us through the infamous Peril Straits to Angoon, then to the naked bathing sulphur baths of Tenakee Springs - and then an amazing venture north into Glacier Bay National Park where we spent our time filming grizzly bears and climbing the glaciers. But I'm gonna let you into a little secret about my fast growing step-son...

You see, Henry's now fifteen and likes girls. And so I have a little story to tell you. Some of you may have seen the reality TV show 'Alaskan Bush People'... it's aired on the Discovery Channel and purports to tell the true-to-life story of the Brown Family who live wild in the mountain forests of Chigacoff Island close to Hoonah. Much of the filming is carried out in Hoonah and Henry, it's fair to say, is an avid follower. I've long suspected Henry had a crush on one of the Brown girls and so it proved... there's two to choose from... Snowbird who's the younger side of twenty and Rain who's the older side of thirteen. Through various things that have happened whilst we've been in Hoonah we've got to know the Brown family reasonably well... we're the 'Englisman boat people' according to Noah Brown. I got talking to Noah and he asked who the blond curly-haired English boy was who wore the bandana because, he said, one of his sisters was asking...

Cutting things short it was then suggested by someone unknown, to the show's producers, that a storyline involving a 'love relationship' between a worldly-wise English boy, who's sailed his way intrepidly to Alaska all the way from England, and either of the Brown girls might make good TV viewing. Henry, unsurprisingly, was deadly keen but his erstwhile mom said absolutely not... putting her foot down in no uncertain terms. 'He's too young and will find the whole thing utterly disagreeable,' she said. So love was not to be.

A short while later Bradon, our very good friend from the fishing vessel Icy Queen, said to Henry that his friend knows a friend, who's own sister's friend's cousin went on a filmed date with one of the Brown brothers... and was paid twenty grand by the show's producers. This had the effect of causing a somewhat heated debate between a mom and her beloved son...

Henry, it's fair to say, is not a happy bunny.
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