Quoddy’s Run has been in the shed in Canoe Cove all winter, undergoing extensive repairs to her decks, which now look brand new. New port lights, new hatches, new stanchions, new mast collar and various subtle bits of new rigging to go with the new sails we got last year. A new mortgage too, to pay for it all, but hey, you only live once, and we figure Quoddy’s Run is just about–even with all of that–the cheapest waterfront real estate anyone can imagine in BC.
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We wanted the boat to be tough and dry for our trip to Alaska. And then after that, for when we cross the Pacific.
Will we make it to Alaska this year? Or will we be waylaid by other interesting sights and adventures?
We’ll report it all here!
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About Karin Cope
Karin Cope lives on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. She is a poet, sailor, photographer, scholar, rural activist, blogger and an Associate Professor at NSCAD University. Her publications include Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein, a poetry collection entitled What we're doing to stay afloat, and, since 2009, a photo/poetry blog entitled Visible Poetry: Aesthetic Acts in Progress. Over the course of the last decade, with her partner and collaborator Marike Finlay, Cope has sailed to and conducted fieldwork in a number of remote or marginal coastal communities in British Columbia and Mexico. Their joint writings range from activist journalism and travel and policy documents, to an illustrated popular material history of the Lunenburg Foundry entitled Casting a Legend, as well as their ongoing west coast travel blog, West By East.
West by East 
Hi Karin and Marike,
We are here in Nanaimo awaiting Quoddy to run up here. Give us a call when you get close to town.
Jay + Anita
Fantastic! It will probably be a couple of weeks yet, but we look forward to seeing you. Will give you a call as we get closer!
Oh boy, Alaska!! Take your bird book!!
Will do! And plant books, tree books, mammal books, marine guidebooks, charts…And a copy of Boswell’s journals and all kinds of other wild things.
That looks awesome. It’s a well deserved vacation for both of you.
A beautiful boat! What an amazing adventure it will be! You are in our thought! Soon our boat will be in the water
Wendy & Wayne Mushaboom
Thank you! Hurray for getting back in the water!!!