Taking Time: Sailing with my Family in Southeast Alaska

A Book Talk with author Larri Irene Spengler

Saturday, November 15 | 10:30 a.m – 12:00 p.m.

At the Juneau-Douglas City Museum

Taking Time: Sailing with my Family in Southeast Alaska chronicles the many adventures Larri Spengler and her family experienced while sailing their 27-foot Cape Dory sailboat, Altariel. Over the course of 18 years, Larri, her husband, and her daughter made regular wilderness forays from their home in Juneau. While sailing throughout Southeast Alaska they became attuned to weather, gained skills and resiliency, coped with emergencies, watched whales and sunsets, read aloud to each other, and had spacious time for both conversations and silence. In 2022, the family decided it was time to sell Altariel, and in 2025 Larri published Taking Time, Sailing with my Family in Southeast Alaska.

Taking Time conveys one way to live in the present, and to nurture together-time in the face of brimming schedules and encroaching technology. It provides a life-affirming template, whether or not you own a sailboat!