Like many life-altering ocean odysseys, the one a Haines couple took through the Inside Passage earlier this year began in a shipyard.
Well, more precisely, it began in a work space inside Viking Cove in Mud Bay where Liz Landes and Ben Aultman-Moore arranged a work swap so they could build a pair of beefy expedition boats to carry them the 1100-ish miles from Bellingham, Washington to Haines.
In January of 2024, they set about…
