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.

Update on activity

04 July 2017
Sunset at Wallace Island.
We've had a busy few weeks. Near the end of June, we put 2 coats of cetol on the toerail. We then readied the boat for a week with Tina and David. We took them off to Wallace Island, Montague Harbour, Ganges and then back to Clam Bay. All went well with the lift tank and it looks like it has solved the problem of the motor shutting off at inappropriate times. We spent a few days cleaning up the boat from a heater diesel spill we sustained in the choppy waters in Nothumberland Channel. Once that was fixed, we decided to stay here in town and paint the deck as it was wanting for the past few years. Today, we went to the boat and sanded and TSPed the deck. Tomorrow we will prime. The next 2 days will be redoing the white topsides. One day with regular paint and the next day with non-skid. So that has killed off this week. Next week I am doing weather for a BCA program called VICE (Vancouver Island Cruising Experience) where some BCA boats wil get to experience the great blue Pacific by sailing off to a seamount off the coast of Oregon.
The next week we have a gig and then we swing into action for the Bathtub races. We then head over to Vancouver to take in one of the fireworks and then back to Nanaimo for another BCA rendezvous in early August.
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