Destinations: Secrets of Sulphur Passage
April 25, 2022
Here's our latest installment from Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com about a seldom visited part of Vancouver Island's west coast. Riding the flow out the mouth of the Megin River was leaps easier than paddling the other…
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Video: Talking Van Isle West Cruising with Salish Sea Pilot
March 15, 2021
Learn about cruising the west coast of Vancouver Island with Jim and Lynne from Salish Sea Pilot. This is a video of a PowerPoint presentation that we gave virtually at the 2021 Vancouver International Boat Show. Again,…
Cruising Destinations,Featured
Take it Slow Around Vancouver Island
September 28, 2020
If you have never cruised outside of the Salish Sea’s fairly protected waters, a certain amount of anxiety about sailing the west coast of Vancouver Island is natural. The waters on the Inside Passage are not without their…
Galley Delights: ‘Roccan Tomato Soup
April 18, 2020
A simple blend of peanut butter and tomatoes creates a surprisingly exotic soup with a Middle Eastern flair. This recipe combines super easy with super delicious, and it’s made with ingredients you probably have on hard.…
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Destinations: Finding Hammersley Inlet
February 10, 2020
Here's our latest installment from Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com on a little known part of Puget Sound... The trip up Hammersley Inlet, to the southwestern-most reaches of Puget Sound, offers some surprises. (Photo by…
Destinations: Circumnavigating Cortes Island
August 13, 2019
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Not a ripple breaks the stillness across Squirrel Cove, one of Cortes Island’s best anchorages. (Photo by Ken…
Destinations: Port Angeles au natural
July 3, 2019
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Port Angeles, with Mount Angeles and the Olympic Mountains rising behind. (Photo by Wester Van) If the San Juan…
Destinations: Getting high on Hornby
March 12, 2019
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Looking down and across to Denman Island from the Mt Geoffrey Escarpment. The generation to which you belong might…
Winning the war on drips
February 25, 2019
It’s a long hard struggle to get the upper hand on condensation and its fungal accomplices. The temperature dipped to the lowest it had been this winter and I became, I admit, obsessed with the nemesis of my life as a…
Salish Sea Pilot’s guide to the Broughtons is here
February 2, 2019
This photo which Lynne snapped on a glorious morning in Drury Inlet graces the cover of our new guide to the Broughton Archipelago. Blogging has fallen off the radar as Lynne and I tacked like mad against headwinds to get…