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.

At the Octopuss' Garden

07 January 2012 | Marina Riviera De La Cruz
Jay/ Hot
Tatewari. An excellent latin jazz group.
We are sitting in the shade of the huanacaxtle tree in La Cruz. There is a restaurant built around it. Today, we are having brunch at the restaurant (Octopuss’ Garden). Tatewari is playing and Anita and I are enjoying the music. 90 year old Jack is dancing to the music. His wife (Muriel) is the better dancer, but she hasn’t felt inspired yet. They seem to know where all the cool acts are in town. Anytime we are at anything really great, they show up.
The folks at The Garden are wonderful. The coffee is the best I have ever had… anywhere. We are going to have to clean up the deck of Karina as she is getting a lot of port dust on her decks. Next week we will be getting hatch covers put on. This should deal with the green water ingress when things get rough. Nick and Nancy (Jesse Marie) have appeared from Mazatlan. They are here for the first time. They are enjoying the anchorage here in La Cruz.
Life in the marina has been pretty good. We did a Mega run yesterday and discovered that the cash machine at the Scotia (next to Mega) will give 5000 pesos instead of the usual 3000 making trips to the money store less frequent. I don’t know if this is just this machine or bank or whether it is the beginning of a new policy. At an exchange rate of 13 pesos to a Canadian dollar, 3000 pesos takes about 10 days to blow through.
I guess I could comment a bit on expenses here. Cruising expenses are high when commissioning and the first couple of months on the boat. Then, as the winter wears on, things get a lot more affordable as we wind up spending more time on the hook and we start trying to use up food items on the boat so it is empty by the spring. Generally we arrive back in Canada with money to spare.
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