Sailing the Karina C

Vessel Name: Karina C
Vessel Make/Model: Spencer 35
Hailing Port: Nanaimo, B.C.
Crew: Jay + Anita Bigland
About: We are a crew of 2 ready to take on adventure on the Pacific Coast. We have returned from sailing to Mexico from 2010-15.
Extra: email us at jayanitabigland@gmail.com
25 July 2023 | Home port
25 July 2023 | Home Port
12 July 2023 | Poet’s Cove
21 May 2023 | Home port
14 August 2022 | Home port
20 July 2022 | Home port
15 April 2022 | Nanaimo Home
14 April 2022 | Nanaimo
13 April 2022 | Saltspring Yacht Club
12 April 2022 | Van Isle Marina
11 April 2022 | Van Isle Marina
09 April 2022 | Van Isle Marina
08 April 2022 | Van Isle Marina
07 April 2022 | Sidney Spit Marine Park
06 April 2022 | Montague Harbour
05 April 2022 | Clam Bay
30 March 2022 | Home Port- Nanaimo
10 February 2022 | Mill Bay
06 September 2021 | Home port
31 July 2021 | Home port
Recent Blog Posts
25 July 2023 | Home port

Ode to Old Age

We made it back in time to do a little work on a project we have going in the back yard: a retaining wall. We have bought 4 palettes of bricks and we are about to lay them. We've hired a young man who is a very good worker and he has been ever so helpful. Today I (Jay) went to the ophthalmologist's office [...]

25 July 2023 | Home Port

Poet's Cove to Home

Heading N on Trincomali Channel

12 July 2023 | Poet’s Cove

To Poet’s Cove

Beautiful costumes at Mexican Festival

21 May 2023 | Home port

First Big cruise of 2023

Jay & Anita at Tod Inlet

14 August 2022 | Home port

August Cruise

Rion and Michelle Berg at Gowland Point

20 July 2022 | Home port

Out for a couple of weeks

In late June, Anita’s shoulder and my eye healed sufficiently to make a little journey on Karina C.

Puerto Escondido

09 March 2012 | Puerto Escondido
Jay/ Warm
Cathy and Reno aboard Star. They are a very special couple.
3/05
We are at anchor in a broad rolling roadstead anchorage on Isla San Jose across from Nopolo. We have finished a fun evening with Cathy and Reno aboard Star.
We stayed at Marina Costa Lotta until 0600 this morning. We left in the dark. We were in gloomy light by 0620 though. Things got into a routine at Marina Costa Baja: in the mornings we would go shopping or do boat projects. In the afternoons we would swim in the pool and lounge in the hot tub. We would watch the sunsets from the hot tub. Often the restaurant folks would try to give us the bums rush as they pack it up at 1800. The sun would go down at 1830, so we liked to hang in for the extra half hour. Pretty soon, they gave up and went home to leave us to the pool by ourselves. We would eat a late dinner, watch a movie and go to bed.
Today was day one of a three day window of light N winds. Tomorrow there will be light Southerly. We might even get the spinnaker up! We were able to contact Star about Isla San Francisco. They gave us GPS coordinates and we were able to find them easily. We had a wonderful supper with them and we played our instruments for a while around sunset. We are home on Karina at 2045 and getting things ready for the night. We will be up early for another long day of travel tomorrow.
3/06
We were up at 0600 and got going right away. We motored all the way to Agua Verde in mostly flat conditions. As we rounded the point to head W into Agua Verde, we stumbled a little too close to the reef that is off the point. We got down to 13' of water. Creepy. Anyhow, we didn't touch bottom, so all's well that ends well.
We arrived here at 1320. We are going to walk the town after Anita finishes a snack.
3/09
We left for Puerto Escondido the next morning. We encountered a variety of conditions on our way up: from flat calm to 30 knots from the W. All of the conditions were short lived. The 30 Knots from the West was the most troublesome. We found less wind and flatter seas closer to shore.
We arrived in PE (3/07) in the morning and, after a brief howdy to Angelos, we made our way to the fuel float and then a mooring. As the day went on, things got steadily windier. I was glad to have made it to PE as the wind was well into the 30s yesterday. It would have been a pretty difficult time if we had to weather the Norther from Agua Verde.
Today is a little more settled. The winds are in the 20s here in the harbour. We walked in to the tiende and got some soya sauce for the left over stir fry I'm eating for lunch. Kip and Mary are coming over for games this afternoon and we are having a salad and chilli supper.
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