http://threesheetsnw.com Three Sheets Northwest Boating News Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/derelict-barge-now-a-costly-eyesore-for-oregon-agency/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/derelict-barge-now-a-costly-eyesore-for-oregon-agency/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:22 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=25074 Paul Slyman’s colossal headache started in late March, when he got to work and received a voicemail from the U.S. Coast Guard. The caller informed Slyman, parks director for Oregon’s Metro agency, that there was a new visitor at the Metro-owned boat dock near Portland Airport. 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The 20-team regatta was held in Seattle for the first time in seven years and drew sailors from around the country, including the Virgin [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/nations-top-high-school-sailors-compete-in-seattle-for-mallory-cup/feed/ 1 http://johnvigor.blogspot.com/2012/05/beware-overhang.html http://johnvigor.blogspot.com/2012/05/beware-overhang.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 03:00:00 +0000 John Vigor http://22.33072 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/beware-the-overhang/feed/ 0 http://www.everyonestravelclub.com/4/post/2012/05/cat-aboard.html http://www.everyonestravelclub.com/4/post/2012/05/cat-aboard.html#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:27 +0000  Everyone's Travel Club - Blog http://22.33010 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 [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/cat-aboard/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/a-half-century-later-thunderbird-2-to-relaunch-where-it-was-built/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/a-half-century-later-thunderbird-2-to-relaunch-where-it-was-built/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:12 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=25012 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 [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/a-half-century-later-thunderbird-2-to-relaunch-where-it-was-built/feed/ 0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/svwondertime/~3/l3R5DZxwbq8/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/svwondertime/~3/l3R5DZxwbq8/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 08:14:52 +0000 Sara Johnson http://22.33011 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!). 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Our expectations were fairly low; the economy has been better [...]]]> http://threesheetsnw.com/lateentry/2012/05/13/boat-search-2012-the-cs-40/feed/ 0 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/crews-search-for-missing-person-in-everett-waters/ http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/crews-search-for-missing-person-in-everett-waters/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 23:10:27 +0000 Deborah Bach http://threesheetsnw.com/?p=25014 http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/crews-search-for-missing-person-in-everett-waters/feed/ 0