Videos

2026 Season Preview and Q & A

9 February 2026
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Categories: Alaska, Education, San Juan Islands, Talks and Presentations, Videos

 Join Christine & Jeffrey Smith and Sarah Kirkish for our David B Experience: 2026 Season Preview + Live Q&A

This recorded Zoom event is designed to give you a real feel for what it’s like to travel with us on our small-ship adventures (just 8 guests onboard). We walk through our upcoming trips, where we go, what a typical day looks like, and then answer many engaging audience questions. In this video, you’ll learn about:

  • – Where we cruise in Alaska: Misty Fjords (Ketchikan), Juneau/Admiralty Island, Tracy Arm & Fords Terror, and Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
  • – Fall trips in Washington: the San Juan Islands out of Bellingham ~ A brief look at the David B (built in 1929) and what life onboard feels like
  • – Daily adventures: skiff rides, kayaking, hiking, tide pooling, photography, journaling, wildlife watching ~ What meals are like onboard (and how we handle food allergies / dietary needs)

Q&A highlights include:

  • – Gluten intolerance and other dietary accommodations
  • – Our custom skiff (group capacity + beach access ramp) & how we use it
  • – Activity levels (most active vs. more mellow options) + Pack Creek beach walk details
  • – Kayaking: how we decide when it’s a good day + how we help guests get in/out easily
  • – Solo travelers, cabin options, and the single supplement
  • – “What’s a typical day like?” (coffee, pastries, breakfast, excursions, happy hour, dinner timing)
  • – Communications & emergencies: Starlink, VHF, inReach, and evacuation resources
  • – Weather + what to pack (especially real rain gear and rain pants)
  • – Bugs (usually minimal in Southeast Alaska)

If you want to learn more, see our current availability, or ask questions about which trip is right for you, feel free to contact us through our website: NorthwestNavigation.com. Thanks for watching — and we hope to see you aboard the David B.

Info for 2023 – Zoom Event Recording

15 December 2023
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Categories: Cruises, Podcast, Talks and Presentations, Uncategorized, Videos

In case you missed the opportunity to tune in on Zoom on December 6 for the crew’s presentation on their 2024 cruises, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered with the video recording below. Highlights from this presentation include a description of all of our destinations and a virtual tour of the David B itself. We hope you enjoy it!

 

A Day in Glacier Bay

9 January 2021
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Categories: Alaska, Glacier Bay, Videos
One of the trips we did last summer was an 8-day cruise in Glacier Bay National Park. It was wild, remote, peaceful, and stunningly beautiful. We put together this little time-lapse video of one of our favorite days from the trip. It was remarkable from our overnight anchorage at Margerie Glacier to a mid-day stop at Lamplough Glacier and then on to Johns Hopkins Glacier. It was a fulfilling day and one that we won’t forget.
We have two trips with space available for Glacier Bay in 2021. Join us for a Photography Workshop with Adventures NW Magazine on July 17-24, 2021 (Trip #382), or come explore Glacier Bay with us from July 27-August 3 (Trip #383). Both trips are nearly sold-out so be sure to book soon. Visit our schedule and rates page for availability.

Time-Lapse into the Back of Fords Terror

19 January 2020
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Categories: Alaska, Cruises, Videos

Fords Terror is, hands-down, one of our favorite locations. We often anchor there in a bowl that is surrounded by 2000-3000 foot high sheer cliff walls with mature spruce and hemlock trees clinging to the seemingly soilless rock. It’s a place where the rain and waterfalls and icebergs create mystical scenes as ravens and eagles fly overhead. Our usual anchorage is amazing, but as always for us, there might be something more just around the corner. At Fords Terror that something more is just on the other side of a narrow constriction and some reversing tidal rapids.

On most trips, we take our guests through the narrows in the skiff. We plan to ride the current in before the tidal floodwater reaches it’s highest high for the day and becomes still before the current changes to an outgoing ebb. We typically spend a couple of hours skiffing around, looking at waterfalls, amazing geology, and sometimes even bears. Then, we’ve always come out on the ebbing current. Jeffrey had always wanted to take the David B into the back, and spend the night. He was curious to see and experience Fords Terror at both high tide and low tide and to see how the back of Fords Terror’s beauty changed over the course of a day. It was so magical that we did something we don’t often do, we decided to spend, not one night but two nights at anchor there. Below is a short time-lapse video of us going into Fords Terror. We hope you enjoy it.

Winter Project – The Tin Top

12 December 2019
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Categories: Projects, Restoration, Videos

We have an exciting winter project this year. We’re replacing the roof over the galley and at the same time extending the roof over the back of the boat to give us and our guests a nice new covered fantail where we can enjoy being outside on hot sunny days as well as rainy cool days. The video below is a timelapse of Jeffrey and our winter employee, Tim removing the galley roof.