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/my-first-six-months-as-a-liveaboard/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/my-first-six-months-as-a-liveaboard/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:07 +0000 Courtney Kirchoff http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22032 Selling furniture, giving away clothes and pitching stuff in the garbage isn’t something most girls dream of. But last August I did just that, all so I could move aboard a sailboat and leave land behind to search for adventure. My decision to live aboard a boat had nothing to do with my thoughts on [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/my-first-six-months-as-a-liveaboard/feed/ 5 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/solo-ocean-racer-and-iraq-war-vet-ronnie-simpson-talk-friday-at-boat-show/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/solo-ocean-racer-and-iraq-war-vet-ronnie-simpson-talk-friday-at-boat-show/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:41 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22353 Just seven months after he started learning to sail, Iraq War vet Ronnie Simpson set out on an attempt to sail solo around the world, only to lose his rudder, his boat and everything he owned eight days into the trip. But that didn’t deter Simpson. Hardly. He bought a bike, cycled 9,000 miles across [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/02/solo-ocean-racer-and-iraq-war-vet-ronnie-simpson-talk-friday-at-boat-show/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/new-cartoon-book-depicts-the-amusing-cruising-life/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/new-cartoon-book-depicts-the-amusing-cruising-life/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:00:55 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=22210 Soon after embarking on a long-distance cruise in 2004, Susan Fox was struck by how comical the cruising life was, from the salty characters she came across to the foibles of daily life particular to cruisers. So Fox, a Port Townsend artist, started sketching her observations into what would eventually become “The Cruising Life Illustrated,” [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/new-cartoon-book-depicts-the-amusing-cruising-life/feed/ 4 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/from-runabouts-to-rumrunners-talk-focuses-on-bill-gardens-wooden-motor-yachts/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/from-runabouts-to-rumrunners-talk-focuses-on-bill-gardens-wooden-motor-yachts/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:38 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21710 Scott Rohrer still remembers the time, more than 50 years ago, that he first set eyes on Blue Heron. He took one look at the sleek lines, raised pilothouse and elegantly curved bow and was immediately smitten by the vessel, designed by the legendary Bill Garden. “I saw that boat and I thought I was [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/from-runabouts-to-rumrunners-talk-focuses-on-bill-gardens-wooden-motor-yachts/feed/ 3 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/lee-chesneau-on-grib-files-u-s-versus-canadian-forecasts-and-teaching-during-a-hurricane/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/lee-chesneau-on-grib-files-u-s-versus-canadian-forecasts-and-teaching-during-a-hurricane/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:00:54 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21691 This is the second-part of Three Sheets Northwest’s interview with marine weather expert Lee Chesneau. The first part can be read here. Do any particular hurricanes stand out in your mind? Hurricane Donna hit in 1960. It was an event that started on Wednesday and didn’t end until Saturday afternoon. It was a traumatic experience [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/lee-chesneau-on-grib-files-u-s-versus-canadian-forecasts-and-teaching-during-a-hurricane/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/lee-chesneau-on-hurricanes-forecasting-in-the-northwest-and-the-worst-storm-hes-been-in/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/lee-chesneau-on-hurricanes-forecasting-in-the-northwest-and-the-worst-storm-hes-been-in/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:14 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21680 Lee Chesneau is a nationally recognized marine weather expert, but luckily for us, he calls the Pacific Northwest home. Previously a senior marine meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Prediction Center, Chesneau teaches marine weather and forecasting to boaters around the country. He will be giving a free introduction to marine weather from 1:30 to [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/lee-chesneau-on-hurricanes-forecasting-in-the-northwest-and-the-worst-storm-hes-been-in/feed/ 1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/restoring-a-wooden-boat-brings-dream-to-reality-for-bellingham-couple/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/restoring-a-wooden-boat-brings-dream-to-reality-for-bellingham-couple/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:00:02 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=21583 In 1998, Christine and Jeffrey Smith bought a 1929 old wooden powerboat with a dream of restoring her and starting a charter company. The Bellingham couple paid $15,000 for the rundown, rotting David B and figured they could get the ship back up and running in a couple of years. It took eight. By the [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/01/restoring-a-wooden-boat-brings-dream-to-reality-for-bellingham-couple/feed/ 4 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/after-serving-his-country-army-vet-pursues-marina-dream/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/after-serving-his-country-army-vet-pursues-marina-dream/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:00:03 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20856 After serving his country in the military for more than a dozen years, Dave Lye has a dream — to be home with his wife and four daughters and own a marina on Puget Sound. It’s a dream Lye came to after being deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, where he had plenty of time to think about the [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/after-serving-his-country-army-vet-pursues-marina-dream/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/coast-guard-cook-rescues-girl-from-columbia-river/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/coast-guard-cook-rescues-girl-from-columbia-river/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:17:46 +0000 Guest contributor http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20708 Search and Rescue is perhaps the most well known of all the Coast Guard missions. The idea of the rescue itself — the direct, firsthand lifesaving opportunity — is the reason many Coast Guardsmen sign up. These individuals crave a chance to rise to the occasion, to be in a position to save a life. While this desire is the driving force behind many successful Coast Guard rescues, it is something that exists independent of our service, within our men and women. ]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/11/coast-guard-cook-rescues-girl-from-columbia-river/feed/ 2 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/wooden-boat-lovers-new-weekly-podcast-aims-to-speak-to-you/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/wooden-boat-lovers-new-weekly-podcast-aims-to-speak-to-you/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:00:21 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=20255   Northwest boater Dan Mattson has a passion and wanted to share it with others, so he started what he believes to be the world’s only podcast series focused entirely on wooden boats. Mattson, who lives in Arlington, launched his site HookedOnWoodenBoats.com in early September and has so far recorded and posted six weekly podcasts. [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/10/wooden-boat-lovers-new-weekly-podcast-aims-to-speak-to-you/feed/ 0