Looking for laughter and inspiration in these trying times? Watch this.
Sitting at home or on your boat and looking for something to watch? This is one of my favorite sailing documentaries, which follows the life of a charismatic sailor and his unconventional voyage around the globe. A must see…
Product News March 2020
From the March issue of 48° North
AnchorRescue II
by Andy Cross
Unlocking the New R2AK Puzzle
One Change, So Many Options From the March issue or 48° North, photos courtesy of Drew Malcolm When Race to Alaska (R2AK) teams hoist their sails outside of Victoria Harbour on June 11, 2020, some of them will be faced with…
Throttling back to slow mode
From the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to Mexico, our best cruising is done in the slow lane
One Tack & Two Jibes
One Tack & Two Jibes 1,300 Miles from Alaska to San Francisco Wedged between the lee cloth and cushions on Yahtzee’s starboard settee, I stare aloft through the dark of the cabin and the main hatch, listening intently to…
Happy New Year from the Yahtzee crew
What a year it has been. After our second winter in Seward, we emphatically tossed Yahtzee’s dock lines aboard and set off on May 24 to explore more of our beloved Alaska before turning south. Now, writing this from the…
Throwback Thursday | 5 Favorite Cruise-in Breweries
We've been combing through the extensive Three Sheets Northwest archives lately and thought it would be fun to share some of the timeless articles that we've enjoyed putting together over the years... Here's one from October…
A Family Affair
The ever-evolving lessons of raising kids on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest Sitting at a table on the patio of Seattle’s Nickerson Street Saloon, Jill and I celebrated the closing of our new-to-us 1984 Grand Soleil 39…
Winter Anchorages of Puget Sound
With fall firmly upon us and winter peeking around the corner, two things are bound to happen in the coming months in the Salish Sea: low pressure systems will sweep in off the Pacific Ocean bringing strong southerlies, and…
Sitting on the side of…