Captain Bios
AUKE BAY ADVENTURES provide both bareboat and skippered charters. If your preference is a skippered charter we have the expertise to match you with a captian best suited to the objectives of your adventure.
Captain Lee Davis Jr.
US Merchant Marine Officer-50 Ton Near Coastal Masters License #3430566 – 2012 to Present
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| Boats and the ocean have always been a part of my life. I have my awesome dad to thank for that! |
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| My dad was the best dock master around and ran the Islandia Marina in San Diego for 37 years. If I wasn’t running around the docks helping him with boats I was out in the ocean surfing and diving. |
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| My adult life I found myself working in dive shops and on dive boats I also started a dive shop with some dear friends down in Baja California Sur. |
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| For the past 11 years Alaska has been my home, living and working in Haines, Skagway, and Juneau as a naturalist, river guide, and boat captain for some of Alaska’s premier guiding companies getting to know the plants, animals, and whales intimately. |
Captain Kevin Murphy
US Merchant Marine Officer-100 Ton Near Coastal Masters License #1121550 – 2006 to present
I’ve been boating in Alaska for 27 years, from Kodiak Island to Prince William Sound to Southeast. I’ve been primarily engaged in research, fisheries, and enforcement. I’ve worked for Alaska State Parks, The National Park Service, and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). While with TNC I was the Chief of Marine Operations (CMO) and ran their Dive Boat and dive operations on Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific. I’ve worked for National Geographic Expeditions in Baja Mexico and brought their vessel the Sea Bird up to Alaska from the Gulf of Mexico, into the Columbia River and onto Alaska. I also skippered the M/V Waters based a Homer, a 1945 72’ wooden tug converted for comfort cruising and bear viewing on the Katmai Coast. Currently I live and boat in Southeast Alaska cruising the inside passage between Glacier Bay, Petersburg, Sitka, and Juneau.
Captain Annette Smith
US Merchant Marine Officer-50 Ton Inland Waters Masters License #3206096 – 2011 to Present
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| Annette is the mom of a 35 year old son, a Past President of the Juneau Gastineau Rotary club, a licensed boat Captain, underwater photographer/videographer and retired from a 33 year career in Information Technology. |
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| She is a life long Alaskan who knows these waters both above and below the surface. She has been a Captain for the past eight years running charter fishing and whale watching boats in both Ketchikan and Juneau. |
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| When not running boats, she can be found on her own boat fishing, diving, and exploring the waters around Southeast. |
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| Her underwater photography is used in several scientific sites, scientific writings, printed in newspaper articles both in the US and Canada. |
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| Her underwater videos have been used in programs like Deadliest Catch and she was featured in The Alaska Triangle episode that focused on the wreck of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Princess Sophia. She is the underwater expert on the Princess Sophia shipwreck and has presented that wreck in several shipwreck symposiums. |
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907.957.4321
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