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Chris and Karmen mark their 35th wedding anniversary with an Alaska Inside Passage cruise ship trip departing Vancouver, British Columbia, traveling north through the Inside Passage.1:20 Neither owns the cruise ship — their sailboat Vanishing Point remains in Southern California — but Chris notes the contrast, expressing mild envy at a sailboat spotted in harbor.1:56 Stops include Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, a White Pass & Yukon Route train excursion from Skagway into the Klondike interior, and an overnight anchorage in Endicott Arm fjord, where receding glaciers are visible from a balcony champagne breakfast.6:07 The standout port is Ketchikan, where they board the Aleutian Ballard — a crab boat featured in Season 2 of The Deadliest Catch that survived a roughly 60-foot rogue wave — now operated as a tourist excursion by captain and owner David Lethem.8:02 The tour covers crab fishing equipment demonstrations, crew histories, crab species found in Alaskan waters, and a stop in an isolated cove surrounded by American bald eagles.10:15 Chris calls the Aleutian Ballard excursion the single best activity of the entire cruise and extends an open invitation to Lethem to sail on Vanishing Point in Southern California.9:06

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