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Gwaii Haanas: Hlk’yah G̱awG̱a & G̱andll K’in Gwaay.yaay (2023 July)
Sticking to my journal as a guide, we continue south to other parts of Gwaii Haanas Park including the rest of the Watchman sites. The first would be Hlk’yah G̱awG̱a (Windy Bay) where a recently raised legacy pole stands. The island, Tllga Kun Gwaayaay (Lyell Island) also houses the site of a very important protest…
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One year post splash day
One year ago on THIS VERY DAY BUT A YEAR AGO May 16th, Karma was launched in the water! We started getting the boat ready on the hard mid April after a winter sitting alone in Anacortes. Liam and I were saving money working down in California at casa de Liam’s parents who kindly hosted
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Some of The Little Things
As the winter has progressed we have been focusing on the big stuff, the solar arch, the autopilots and the like. This is all great, but there are also tons of small, incremental changes/updates/additions which have been coming together to make Karma feel like she’s really shaping up to be ready for an early May
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Winter in the SJs
Now being that its February we have actually been in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, San Juan Islands (confusing I know) for a while. Being that we aren’t actually sailing anywhere, the boat hasn’t moved once since October, the mentality has definitely shifted slightly and it is interesting to be mid-experience of a place we
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Heat a la Diesel!
This project has been a headache and extremely slow moving for being a project which was at the top of the to-do list as we pulled into our winter home here at Friday Harbor. I am happy to report I am sitting down below typing this in a dry and rather warm cabin, but the
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Synthetic Lifelines
Lifelines, or as they should maybe be called, Lines of Last Resort, are one of those things which every sailboat has but you never notice. That is until you take them off, which is what we did upon pulling up to our winter home here in Friday Harbor. Our lifelines are likely the originals that
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A “Trusted Source” Retrospective on Skipper Liam
I’d like to regale you with stories of the SV Karma crew’s intrepidness, ingenious inventiveness, penchant for effectiveness, extraordinary hospitality, and… albeit, they can tell you that. In fact, I’ll go as far to say the rest of these lovely blog posts will show you precisely that. I’m here with the real investigative journalism. I
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“The right size for a yacht is large enough to have 6 onboard for cocktails, 4 onboard for dinner, and 2 onboard to sleep” – William Stuart Herreshoff
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