by Deborah Bach
May 23 2013 in Currents, Slider by Deborah Bach
In an effort to fill long-empty slips, the Bremerton Marina is offering a deal its management hopes boaters can’t resist. Free moorage — for an entire year. The deal is good through July 15 for boats between 36 and 120 feet and is limited to the first 75 that sign up. To qualify, boat owners [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 21 2013 in Currents by Deborah Bach
A new law aimed at improving boating safety in Washington state increases penalties for boating under the influence and gives law enforcement officers greater authority in arresting impaired boaters. The law, which was signed by Gov. Jay Inslee last week and takes effect July 28, makes BUI a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to a [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 20 2013 in Currents by Deborah Bach
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed legislation intended to reduce the number of derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters. The new law will hold owners of derelict vessels more accountable, improve enforcement, bolster funding and ideally, help prevent vessels from becoming derelict or abandoned in the first place. “This bill helps get us [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 18 2013 in Environment by Deborah Bach
If you see a red-orange bloom on the water while boating on Puget Sound, don’t worry. The Washington Department of Ecology says it has received laboratory confirmations that several of the tomato soup-colored blooms showing up on Puget Sound are harmless to people and are not the so-called “red tide” that refers to paralytic shellfish [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 16 2013 in Currents by Deborah Bach
Quiet, low-impact propulsion will be the focus at the second Electric Boat Showcase at The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle this Sunday. The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 19, will feature half a dozen electric boats ranging from to a 17-foot wooden launch to a 37-foot replica of an [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 15 2013 in Announcements, Currents by Deborah Bach
Wendy Hinman knows about cruising on the cheap. Hinman and her husband, Garth Wilcox, cruised the Pacific for seven years on their 31-foot boat on a budget of just $33 a day from the $1,000 monthly rental income on their Seattle home. They cruised 34,000 miles without refrigeration, a hot water heater, a generator or [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 15 2013 in Currents by Deborah Bach
Last summer’s inaugural Seattle Pink Boat Regatta, held on Shilshole Bay, drew around 50 boats and raised $36,000 for breast cancer research. At the heart of the effort was a man named Thomas Watson, who planned to sail solo and non-stop around the world in his distinctive pink sailboat with the goal of raising $1 [...]
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