Cruising on Sailing Karma

Mum Arrives in Puerto Vallarta

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mum Goes to Mexico 2025 Part 2

March 18 Tuesday

Another sunrise through my hatch. A leisurely Coffee in the Cockpit and tasty breakfast sandwich before the sails went up just before 11:00 and, with Yelapa receding in the distance, we started on the short trip north to Puerto Vallarta. The winds were mostly taking a break, so it was a power assisted sail before we pulled in that afternoon and tied Karma up at the first slip she had been in since January 2024. Suddenly we were part of a large harbor scene with high rise resorts as our backdrop, having to remember our address as “Turn left at Life is Short.” (the vessel we tied alongside.) and the luxury of just hopping off onto the dock, no dinghy required!

One Year Post Splash Day

Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One year ago on THIS VERY DAY BUT A YEAR AGO May 16th, Karma was launched in the water! We started getting the boat ready on the hard mid April after a winter sitting alone in Anacortes. Liam and I were saving money working down in California at casa de Liam’s parents who kindly hosted us. We started the process of looking for a boat over a year before and finally made moves on this Doug Peterson 37 late summer/early fall. We got the title squared the day before we packed all our belongings into Liam’s 2000 Miata and my much more spacious 1986 Volvo 240, Beulah. Our folks did not know about our big live aboard/cruise boat project so as we slept under Kate and Grant’s roof and enjoyed the Bruger’s bagels freshly delivered after Kate’s morning walks every Wednesday, they surely had questions about our ~~trajectories~~. My parents were asking vaguely pointed questions now and then. A big zoom call with his fam and mine revealed our secret-no-more plans with a very informative and comical slideshow presentation, properly utilizing our freshly obtained educations. Things made more sense and his folks didn’t side eye us as often 😉 The reason for the smoke and mirrors was simply so we could get things squared before questions begging details came.

BC's Answer to the SJs

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Gulf Islands are sort of

like the Canadian version of the San Juans, or so we are lead to believe. And to an extent, that is true. Close in proximity means they’re close in a lot of ways: flora, fauna, climate, and so on. Now that we are here, though, they do have more of a different sense than just being new San Juan Island bays in which we haven’t yet anchored or dinked. They are larger it seems, there are more of them, and the amenities and what is available is different.

Working Onboard

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“You can just work from anywhere?!”

….is a question often asked. This whole yachting thing is, well, expensive as frig and unless some bank glitch helps us out, we are going to be paying as we go for a while. Currently, I am working remotely aboard full time and for the most part, the answer is “yes, I sorta can just work from anywhere” but that isn’t without its caveats. Cockpit Salesforce in Ladysmith BC