N75EYF Continued from Page 44 smell a new scent, they connect it to a person, an event or an activity, and their brains forge a link between odor and memory. Since we are children when we first encounter many odors, smells are especially likely to conjure childhood memories. Audrey says she and Amber were more averse to the cold than the boys and enjoyed much of the trip snug inside Audrey’s Dream watching the television, but they did get outside to connect with nature in their own way. If father and son were the “hunters,” mother and daughter performed the role of gatherers, clamming on the beach, collecting shells and, most fun of all, capturing starfish. Cooking for 10 is never easy, but Audrey Nowaczek said the boat’s galley was fine for the task. There the clams became clam chowder. Andrew sliced the fresh salmon for sushi—they ate a lot of sushi—while the rest was cooked on the grill. The crabs were magnificent, and so was a particular adult beverage made using “calved” remnants from one of the Glacier Bay glaciers. “We netted an iceberg, a small piece of ice from the glacier, and we ground it up and made a million-year-old martini,” Andrew Nowaczek says. Speaking of food, on their return to Ketchikan, the Nowaczeks treated the family to a very special party celebrating Aleksander’s fifth birthday on June 29. The gang spent an afternoon at the Metlakatla Indian reservation on Annette Island, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Ketchikan. “The Indians cooked for us old-fashioned salmon recipes and danced around for us. It was really colorful and very special. For my son, it was a big, big adventure,” Nowaczek recalls. “My brother said how the boat trip brought his family together especially his teenage daughter. Two weeks in a confined small place with no place to hide, sometimes for days. I call that boat family therapy,” Nowaczek says. In our interview, Audrey Nowaczek kept returning to how she had felt secure and comfortable during the trip, which though transiting protected waters, nevertheless included some exciting moments. www.nordhavn.com
“It’s just a solid boat. We went through some rough seas for a couple of days and nights, and it handled really well for how rough it was,” she says. “For three weeks with 10 people on board, mostly inside the boat, I think we did pretty well.” The Nowaczeks were planning a two-week cruise in Canadian waters in August, when Audrey hopes it will be nice and warm in comparison to the Alaskan June. Then Audrey’s Dream will set
a course for the Pacific Coast of Mexico, a region that the Nowaczeks cruised extensively on their Nordhavn 57. And if you should pass through Costa Rica next spring, don’t be surprised to find yourself docked next to Hull #1. Audrey’s Dream will be unforgettable. She’ll be the big 75-footer with the pale yellow hull, an aroma of grilling fish and the sound of laughing children. IV —Peter Swanson
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