by Deborah Bach
May 16 2012 in Currents, Seamanship by Deborah Bach
In recognition of National Safe Boating Week, from May 19 to 25, the U.S. Coast Guard is reminding Northwest boaters to take steps to be safe on the water. The Coast Guard offers the following tips in its press release: Take a paddler education course. Paddlesports are the fastest growing segment of recreational boating, with [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 16 2012 in Currents by Deborah Bach
Reporter Jonathan Martin has the story in today’s Seattle Times: Ian Jefferds was nervous about the decrepit, 128-foot crab boat from the moment it was towed into the midst of the rich shellfish beds of Whidbey Island’s Penn Cove on Christmas Eve. The boat was listing and had no propulsion of its own. It was [...]
by John Vigor
May 15 2012 in Guest Dock by John Vigor
LONG OVERHANGS look very elegant on a sailboat. Many racing designs used them at one time or another, boats such as the Thirty Square Meter class, which is limited almost entirely by sail area. Designers searching for the fastest hull for given sail area came up with slim, narrow boats with minimum underwater surface, and [...]
May 15 2012 in Guest Dock by Everyone's Travel Club - Blog
Cat Aboard. The sun has finally set on another surprisingly sunny Spring weekend in the usually gloomy Pacific Northwest. As I kick back inside the boat, picking up a few things that fell down below in our first sail of the season, I’m distracted. I hear a rumble in the aft cabin. I carefully [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 15 2012 in Boats, Currents by Deborah Bach
Fifty-three years after it was built, Thunderbird sailboat #2 will be relaunched in a public event this weekend on the former site of the Gig Harbor boatyard where it was constructed. Pirouette was built and launched from the Eddon Boatyard, now the site of the Gig Harbor BoatShop. On Saturday, May 19, the boatshop is [...]
by Sara Johnson
May 15 2012 in Guest Dock by Sara Johnson
We are currently on Nuku Hiva, the last island we will explore in the Marquesas before we sail the 500ish miles to the Tuamotu atolls southwest of here and after that the Society Islands (Tahiti! Moorea! Bora Bora!). Over the last four weeks we’ve flitted among these sweet little jems floating lazily in the warm [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 14 2012 in Currents by Deborah Bach
The Coast Guard and Everett Fire and Rescue Department were searching the waters near Everett for a person who went missing after a dingy sunk on Monday afternoon. The Coast Guard got a report at about 1:30 p.m. that a man had been rescued from the water after the dinghy sunk. The man told his [...]
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