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/cause-of-alaska-seal-deaths-a-mystery/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/cause-of-alaska-seal-deaths-a-mystery/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:10 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22949 Scientists in Alaska are trying to determine what has killed and sickened more than 130 seals since the summer, but say they don’t think radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is to blame. Since mid-July, more than 60 dead and more than 75 diseased seals, most of them ring seals, have turned up in the [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/cause-of-alaska-seal-deaths-a-mystery/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/first-group-of-boatyards-deemed-clean-under-new-program/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/first-group-of-boatyards-deemed-clean-under-new-program/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:51 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22265 Four Washington boatyards recently became the first to be certified under a new program that aims to help protect Puget Sound from water-borne pollutants. Cap Sante Marine in Anacortes, Seaview and Canal boatyards in Seattle and Swantown Marina and Boatworks in Olympia were certified as “clean” under the new Certified Boatyard Program, run by the [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/first-group-of-boatyards-deemed-clean-under-new-program/feed/ 2 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/extreme-tides-blamed-for-near-breach-of-jetty-in-la-push/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/extreme-tides-blamed-for-near-breach-of-jetty-in-la-push/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:22:45 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21678 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/extreme-tides-blamed-for-near-breach-of-jetty-in-la-push/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/agencies-respond-to-sinking-off-shaw-island/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/agencies-respond-to-sinking-off-shaw-island/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:01:54 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21451 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/agencies-respond-to-sinking-off-shaw-island/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/boaters-get-your-cameras-the-king-tides-are-coming/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/boaters-get-your-cameras-the-king-tides-are-coming/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:57:36 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21320 Extreme tides are starting on the Washington coast and the Strait of Juan de Fuca today, and the state Department of Ecology is inviting people to share photos of this naturally occurring event. The extreme high tides, known as “king tides” in British Columbia and some West Coast states, occur when the sun and moon’s [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/boaters-get-your-cameras-the-king-tides-are-coming/feed/ 2 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/worlds-largest-creature-spotted-off-washington-coast/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/worlds-largest-creature-spotted-off-washington-coast/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:02:54 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21225 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/worlds-largest-creature-spotted-off-washington-coast/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/record-high-pressures-causing-unusually-low-tides/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/record-high-pressures-causing-unusually-low-tides/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:00:15 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21064 Record high sea-level pressures around Puget Sound since the start of December are also causing unusually low tides, according to local weather guru Cliff Mass. As Mass reported on his blog, sea level pressure at Seattle-Tacoma Airport hit a high of 1043.4 mb on Dec. 1, the highest since record-keeping started at the airport in 1948. Over [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/12/record-high-pressures-causing-unusually-low-tides/feed/ 3 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/is-ultra-low-sulfur-diesel-harming-your-engine/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/is-ultra-low-sulfur-diesel-harming-your-engine/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:57:15 +0000 Marty McOmber http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20791 BoatUS recently sent out the following release about the effects of ultra-low-sulfur diesel on marine engines. The upshot — there are a few problems, but not as many as initially feared. Here’s what the researchers found: As a way to reduce particulate matter, ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD), with only 15 ppm or less of sulfur, was mandated for [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/is-ultra-low-sulfur-diesel-harming-your-engine/feed/ 4 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/extremely-dangerous-storm-headed-for-west-coast-of-alaska/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/extremely-dangerous-storm-headed-for-west-coast-of-alaska/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:06:25 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20469 Update: The Seattle Times is reporting that the Coast Guard has rescued the crew of a Seattle trawler on the Bering Sea. Story here. A powerful and dangerous storm expected to be one of the most severe on record was heading straight for the west coast of Alaska on Tuesday. Referred to as a “Bering [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/extremely-dangerous-storm-headed-for-west-coast-of-alaska/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/a-magical-murmuration-of-starlings/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/a-magical-murmuration-of-starlings/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:55:09 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20362 We rarely post stories or videos that aren’t somehow directly related to the Northwest, but this is so beautiful I had to share it. It shows a murmuration, a collective movement of thousands of starlings flying and swirling together. Murmurations usually happen at the start of winter just before dusk, as birds migrating from colder [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/a-magical-murmuration-of-starlings/feed/ 3