http://threesheetsnw.com Three Sheets Northwest Boating News Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:50:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boating-group-lauds-lightsquared-decision/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boating-group-lauds-lightsquared-decision/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:53:52 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22956 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boating-group-lauds-lightsquared-decision/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/a-great-boat-show-experience/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/a-great-boat-show-experience/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:05:36 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22796 Having a presence at the Seattle Boat Show this year for the first time was a terrific experience. It was exhausting, cranking out stories and trying to be at our kiosk as much as possible each day, but it was invigorating in a way I hadn’t expected. Marty and I walked out of the show [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/a-great-boat-show-experience/feed/ 11 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/vintage-gold-in-the-photo-archives/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/vintage-gold-in-the-photo-archives/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:53 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22545   A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by the Northwest Marine Trade Association’s office to go through their Seattle Boat Show photo archives. I was looking for old photos to run with our story about the show and the association’s 65th anniversary and figured I’d find some good ones. But it was better than [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/vintage-gold-in-the-photo-archives/feed/ 3 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boat-show-find-flexible-lightweight-solar-panels/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boat-show-find-flexible-lightweight-solar-panels/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:02 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22500 One of the more interesting products we saw at the Seattle Boat Show was the flexible, super-thin, lightweight solar panels made by Italian company Solbian. The Solbianflex Solar Panels, which were at the show for the first time this year, are about as thin as a flexible cutting board and weigh between 1.76 and 5.17 pounds, [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boat-show-find-flexible-lightweight-solar-panels/feed/ 5 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/small-things-you-shouldnt-miss-at-the-big-boat-show/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/small-things-you-shouldnt-miss-at-the-big-boat-show/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:00:57 +0000 Marty McOmber http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22411 One of the best things about the Seattle Boat Show is stumbling across some item, service or display that makes you stop in your tracks. I’m not talking about the big, shiny boats, but those smaller treasures that you might otherwise overlook if you walk by too fast. Over the past few days, the crew of [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/small-things-you-shouldnt-miss-at-the-big-boat-show/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boston-whalers-first-pilothouse-makes-world-debut-at-boat-show/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boston-whalers-first-pilothouse-makes-world-debut-at-boat-show/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:30 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22396 World debuts of boats are not uncommon in places like Florida and Europe, but that’s not the case in Seattle. So the world debut of Boston Whaler’s 285 Conquest Pilothouse, the company’s first pilothouse design, at the Seattle Boat Show is a fairly notable event. The boat was officially unveiled on the show’s opening day [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/boston-whalers-first-pilothouse-makes-world-debut-at-boat-show/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/more-than-10k-in-prizes-to-be-given-out-at-boats-shows-big-deal-friday/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/more-than-10k-in-prizes-to-be-given-out-at-boats-shows-big-deal-friday/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:05:56 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22355 Boaters can win big at the Seattle Boat Show tomorrow night during the inaugural Big Deal Friday, when prizes worth more than $10,000 are up for grabs. Showgoers can pick up a Big Deal Friday entry form at any show entrance from 3 p.m. on. Starting at 5 p.m. and continuing until the show closes at [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/more-than-10k-in-prizes-to-be-given-out-at-boats-shows-big-deal-friday/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/solo-ocean-racer-and-iraq-war-vet-ronnie-simpson-talk-friday-at-boat-show/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/solo-ocean-racer-and-iraq-war-vet-ronnie-simpson-talk-friday-at-boat-show/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:41 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22353 Just seven months after he started learning to sail, Iraq War vet Ronnie Simpson set out on an attempt to sail solo around the world, only to lose his rudder, his boat and everything he owned eight days into the trip. But that didn’t deter Simpson. Hardly. He bought a bike, cycled 9,000 miles across [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/solo-ocean-racer-and-iraq-war-vet-ronnie-simpson-talk-friday-at-boat-show/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/from-show-queens-to-superyachts-seattle-boat-show-turns-65/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/from-show-queens-to-superyachts-seattle-boat-show-turns-65/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:13 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22325 It started in 1947 as an idea by a group of marine businessmen looking for a way to promote boating and make a buck during the post-World War II economic slump. In March that year, the first Seattle Boat Show was held under a tent across from Bryant’s Marina on Lake Union. Sixty-five years later, [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/from-show-queens-to-superyachts-seattle-boat-show-turns-65/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/cool-new-promo-for-cap-sante-marina/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/cool-new-promo-for-cap-sante-marina/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:29:36 +0000 Marty McOmber http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22319 If you haven’t been to the Port of Anacortes’ Cap Sante Boat Haven in a while, you’ve got some catching up to do. Lots of new things to see and do at a location that really is a perfect place to start a cruise of the nearby San Juan islands and beyond.  But if you don’t want to wait – or navigate [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/cool-new-promo-for-cap-sante-marina/feed/ 0