We all have our cruising shortlist.…
Puget Sound Cruising Club Presentation: Behind the ‘NVS Boaters’ App
University of Washington's Rachel Wold will illuminate how the NANOOS Visualization System (NVS) consolidates real time data, and how boaters might leverage the app's functionality at the upcoming Puget Sound Cruising Club…
Close to the Water: Riding the Tide
When I worked in marine science, we’d sometimes talk about plankton and nekton. Most people are familiar with plankton: tiny organisms that drift to and fro in saltwater, pushed by currents and wind. Nekton are larger…
Destinations: All Quiet in Quait Bay?
In our latest Destinations column courtesy of SalishSeaPilot.com, we learn about a quaint and quite anchorage in Clayoquot Sound. Sitting on the bow sipping scotch on a crystal clear August evening in 2020, Jim and I…
Lessons Learned on Our Big Left Turn
Sitting in the cockpit at anchor in the peaceful laguna at Barra de Navidad, Mexico, I’m listening to the ker-splash of pelicans dive-bombing for fish around our boat. The afternoon breeze has just sprung up, the fleet of…
Hikes for Boaters: Cape Caution to Shearwater
The Central Coast of British Columbia is the…
Necessary or Nice: Infinity Water
It had been days since my routine AIS checks turned up a new target on the multifunction display, now caked with minute nodules of salt spray from the rambunctious sail south out of Sea Otter Cove on the northwest tip of…
Go, Stop… Go!
The San Juan and Gulf islands. Alaska. Mexico. Colombia. Curaçao. The British Virgin Islands. Sint Maarten. There’s a single-line that connects all of these places throughout our family’s cruising odyssey. They’re all…
Salish Sea vs The Mediterranean
We recently spent six months cruising from Spain to France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, and back to Greece. On this incredible Mediterranean adventure, we often found ourselves comparing the experience and our surroundings to…
TBT: Three Sheets NW: Spring Surprises in the San Juans
We love a good Throwback Thursday article almost as much as a delightful springtime jaunt in the islands. Here's a great one from 2021 penned by the talented Three Sheets NW columnists. We pulled into Rosario Resort on a…
