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/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/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/2012/01/new-book-details-top-secret-history-of-patrol-boats-on-puget-sound/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/new-book-details-top-secret-history-of-patrol-boats-on-puget-sound/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:18 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21893 — 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. [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/new-book-details-top-secret-history-of-patrol-boats-on-puget-sound/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/norwesting-magazine-publishes-its-last-issue/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/norwesting-magazine-publishes-its-last-issue/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:00:44 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20475 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 [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/norwesting-magazine-publishes-its-last-issue/feed/ 16 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/on-watch-real-ghosts-in-the-graveyard-of-the-pacific/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/on-watch-real-ghosts-in-the-graveyard-of-the-pacific/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:28 +0000 Marty McOmber http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20200 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 [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/on-watch-real-ghosts-in-the-graveyard-of-the-pacific/feed/ 2 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-historical-seaport/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-historical-seaport/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:39:55 +0000 Marty McOmber http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=19894 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 [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-historical-seaport/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/07/relighting-of-historic-lightship-swiftsure-to-kick-off-wooden-boat-festival/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/07/relighting-of-historic-lightship-swiftsure-to-kick-off-wooden-boat-festival/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:00:12 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=17840 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 [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/07/relighting-of-historic-lightship-swiftsure-to-kick-off-wooden-boat-festival/feed/ 2 http://blog.peregrinesea.com/2011/06/loss-of-four-masted-schooner-winslow.html http://blog.peregrinesea.com/2011/06/loss-of-four-masted-schooner-winslow.html#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:05:00 +0000 peregrinesea http://22.20749    The Schooner Winslow as painted  by Woolston Barratt - 1916 The Winslow, a four-masted schooner of 566 tons and 750 tons capacity, was built at Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island by the Hall Bros. in 1899 for their own fleet,...]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/06/loss-of-the-four-masted-schooner-winslow/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/05/divers-think-they-found-1906-wreckage-of-the-ferry-dix/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/05/divers-think-they-found-1906-wreckage-of-the-ferry-dix/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 05:49:56 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=17015 Seattle Times reporter Susan Gilmore has the story: Divers believe they have found the steamer Dix, which for more than 100 years has rested at the bottom of Puget Sound off Alki Point. The Mosquito Fleet ferry collided with an Alaska freighter and sank in 500 feet of water in November 1906, killing as many [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/05/divers-think-they-found-1906-wreckage-of-the-ferry-dix/feed/ 3 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/05/forget-opening-day-for-these-sailors-its-all-about-race-to-the-straits/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/05/forget-opening-day-for-these-sailors-its-all-about-race-to-the-straits/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 11:00:10 +0000 Christopher Butler http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=16716 Editor’s note: Each year, much of the attention around Opening Day of boating season centers around the Seattle Yacht Club’s grand celebration on the Montlake Cut. But boat parades and crew races aren’t everyone’s cup of tea.   Ten years ago, a group of racers started what has become a different type of Opening Day [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/05/forget-opening-day-for-these-sailors-its-all-about-race-to-the-straits/feed/ 0