Tag: Canada
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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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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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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…
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Granville Channel
This is what I was picturing before setting off when people said, “Inside Passage”. Way the heck up north, passing between 1000 meter cliffs on either side in a mile wide channel in flat calm water. We entered the channel under spinnaker which was fun as always for the 10 minutes the wind lasted then…
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Campania Island
Still unsure how to pronounce this as we have heard a myriad of options, Campania Island is a secret paradise bestowed upon us with trust by a few different people including Qualia, Evan of SV Amaryllis, and SV Manna. Quite a ways up the BC Central Coast, it is past the point most Central Coast…
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Kids Boat Convoy for Bella Bella
“It isn’t too common you find people out at your age doing this….”, we’ve heard from pretty much everyone our senior as we have bounced from rock to rock up and down the West Coast of North America. It seems almost as if the more people tell us that the more we find ways to…
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SV Qualia and Fish
You’ve heard the name mentioned here before, but this, well they, deserve their own story here. Once upon a time we were stranded in Port McNeill, whole Heinicke family in tow, looking for a ride back to a broken down Karma in Lagoon Cove, some 30 miles east in The Broughtons. Each day Heather and…
Sailing Vessel Karma 