by Deborah Bach
Feb 9 2012 in Boat Show 2012, History by Deborah Bach
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 [...]
by Deborah Bach
Feb 2 2012 in Boat Show 2012, Business of Boating, History by Deborah Bach
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, [...]
by Deborah Bach
Jan 19 2012 in History by Deborah Bach
— This new book chronicles an important but little-known facet of Puget Sound’s maritime history. Photos courtesy of Chuck Fowler and Dan Withers Update 1.20.12: Fowler and Withers’ presentation at the Puget Sound Navy Museum on Saturday, Jan. 21 has been canceled due to weather. It is expected to be rescheduled at a later date. [...]
by Deborah Bach
Nov 9 2011 in Business of Boating, Currents, History by Deborah Bach
The region’s oldest recreational boating publication, Seattle-based Nor’westing magazine, has closed after more than four decades in existence. The magazine, published by Canadian company Trader Corporation, put out its last issue on Nov. 2. Efforts to reach a spokesperson at the corporation’s Toronto headquarters on Tuesday weren’t successful, but Nor’westing’s former editor, Chuck Gould, said in [...]
Oct 28 2011 in History by Marty McOmber
Who needs to make up maritime ghost tales when you live near the graveyard of the Pacific? As Halloween approaches, we dug into the archives at Historylink.org to find some of the most horrifying shipwrecks in Pacific Northwest history. Throughout the decades, storms, shifting sand bars, collisions, poor navigation and plain old human error sent thousands of ships [...]
Oct 12 2011 in History by Marty McOmber
Twenty-five years ago this month, the pols in Aberdeen gave their blessing to building a replica tall ship to commemorate the discovery of Grays Harbor by Europeans. And thus was born the Lady Washington, which has gone on to educate tens of thousands of people in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Here’s the press release from [...]
by Deborah Bach
Jul 1 2011 in Boats, History, Uncategorized by Deborah Bach
For the first time since the 1960s, the historic lightship Number 83 will shine its beacon onto Lake Union, just as it once guided mariners to safety at ports along the west coast. The light will be turned on Friday night around 10 p.m., marking the start of the 35th annual Lake Union Wooden Boat [...]
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