One of my favorite experiences of all time was heading out of Valdez Alaska with two buddies and
paddling for six days in the vast wonder of
Prince William Sound in Alaska. The solitude of the place is dreamlike, the scale unimaginable unless you’ve
been.
A fine story by Ross Prather in Canoe and Kayak
Magazine takes a similar trip…well, similar in that they are in Alaska. In this case, the group does a
circumnavigation of Baranof Island, a very large island that would take weeks to circle by kayak if done unassisted.
They do not do it unassisted. Cheating one might call it. But that’s fine. They take their boats aboard a larger motor
boat as they paddle and have a good enough time. Hence the title of the story: Mothership Paddling.