Category: Cruising
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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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Gwaii Haanas: K’uuna Llnagaay & T’aanuu Llnagaay (2023 July)
We have ventured to the past! Currently sitting by oil light in a little town called Onset, Massachusettes on our new boat, we decided to catch up our old timeline from the West Coast. We had many adventures around British Columbia, the last blog we did described our time in Daajing Giids. The next few…
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Gulf of Maine: Almost like we planned it
The Gulf of Maine is the body of water south of the Bay of Fundy, sandwiched between Nova Scotia and Cape Cod in MA. If you don’t know of the Fundy, you should know that the tides are quite large. This can create exciting waves near the entrance and the tip of the Scotia; if…
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Big Construction Projects
By big I literally mean big as in large pieces and large cuts. Something we are tackling here is the ceiling panels. Much like our last boat, of course, we somehow ended up with another boat which didn’t come with any ceiling panels. It made a world of a difference on Karma and they didn’t…
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Notre bateau en acier in New Brunswick
One month in & we have continued to be about ready to almost maybe next week gain a massive amount of momentum to slingshot us into the sea Today we had a celebratory Molesons for slapping a 2 part epoxy primer on the donut. The hull is made of steel and it is faired heavily…
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Daajing Giids, Haida Gwaii
Helloooooo Haida Gwaii! While poking around in the Southern Gulf Islands, we traced the BC (British Columbia) ferries and saw that they connected to a group of islands we didn’t know existed. Sailors mentioned these islands with mystical eyes. We grew itchy to go as we learned more about the Haida and how they canoed…
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Crossing the *Hectic* Strait
whales fish banjo Are the words I wrote when drafting this over a year ago. After enjoying the ridiculous water park in the small village of Lax Kw’alaams, plunging in Alaskan waters, and being eaten alive by aggressive horse flies in the Dundas Islands, we started south. For the first time since setting off early…
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Alaska 54° 42.44N, Turning South
Lax Kw’alaams slang shat us to the Alaskan border on July 16th, 2023. We had been heading north from Friday Harbor since May 6th. The border would be our turn around point, as the Alaskan cruising grounds deserve much more than the 1 week we could give it. One day……… Our journey so far has…
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Heading North, Lax Kw’Alaams
Out of Prince Rupert channel we commenced to sail. Being that we were going north, we were going up wind, but in the sun and being Trevor’s first sail it was a good one. With Zoe and Heather handling Karma, Trevor whipped up some delicious sandwiches and we watched the sunny scenery as we traveled…
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Prince Rupert
The northern most town of significance on the BC Coast, Prince Rupert is a large shipping port and cruise ship stop for huge vessels coming from Japan or chapparoning tourists to and from Alaska. This was also the point we were originally going to drop of Zoe, that was until about a day or two…
Sailing Vessel Karma 