Category: Life Aboard
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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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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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Dinkin’ around
It can haul your headsail. It can haul your beer. It can commute you to your ferry in the wee hours of the morn. It can get you through big wind and small but mighty waves. It can haul up to two of your most acquainted acquaintances. It can also haul $ss behind a 5…
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Welcome!
Sailing Vessel Karma Hello and welcome! Thanks for stumbling across our blog. We have been with the boat now for more than a year and have been slowly but surely putting off doing any sort of blogging as each time we make 1 step forwards something frustrating comes up and, I mean come on, there…
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