About Us
Welcome! We are Heather and Liam bobbing about with wild abandon on our Joubert-Nivelt Sauvage 41. We met in Seattle many moons ago and have been learning to sail together through most of those. We try to update this page with boat projects as well as funny things we see while getting blown around on the big blue.
The first sailboat we ever tried was a 12′ boat, similar to a Lido 14, that we bought off Craigslist. We hand hauled the boat to Green Lake and tepidly tried to sail before finding and purchasing a swing keel San Juan 23 just months later. With a place to sleep aboard Nibbles, we ventured out of the Duwamish River from South Park Marina taking the boat to nearby islands…and grounding the first time we ever anchored. We even got Nibbles up to the San Juans for what was then our greatest longest most exciting voyage, a trip totaling 11 days. Hooked, we found a bigger boat, Karma, in Anacortes where we fixed it up and now are loosely based out of Friday Harbor where we have spent the last few years working off and on the boat and filling the ever hungry cruising kitty. Aboard this boat we did the Inside Passage up to Alaska, Haida Gwaii, and down the wild West Coast of BC and the US to Pacific Mexico where we sailed for 2 years in the Sea of Cortez and down as far south as Manzanillo.
After expanding our horizons both literally and figuratively we refit and have moved aboard a more capable and our long term boat, also Karma, which we are sailing with the goal of seeing interesting places and meeting the world’s people along the way.
Currently
We are now north bound after our winter in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, where we worked service industry jobs for 5 months to refill the cruising kitty.
Feel free to reach out or comment on any of the posts! We will try to answer any and all questions. It’s not like we think about anything else 🙂
