S/V Karma

Welcome! We are Heather and Liam bobbing about with wild abandon on our 37 foot Doug Peterson designed sailboat. 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.