Pacific Northwest Sailing Couple Awarded 2021 Blue Water Medal
February 16, 2022
Honoring extraordinary endurance, the Cruising Club of America recently awarded double circumnavigators Ginger and Peter Niemann the 2021 Blue Water Medal. The Niemanns exemplify the spirit of adventure and determination…
48° North Group Cruising Events in 2022!
January 28, 2022
Join 48° North and fellow Pacific Northwest sailors for these group cruising events in 2022! We’re excited to announce plans for the 2022 48° North Cruising Rally! It’s really a plan in two parts, with the hope to make our…
Cruising in Closed Waters
January 27, 2022
This article was originally published in the January 2022 issue of 48° North. The following is a story about cruising... more specifically, how COVID-19 completely and unexpectedly changed our cruising plans for the better.……
Trade Goods: Sharing is Caring While Cruising
January 18, 2022
This article was originally published in the January 2022 issue of 48° North. It’s hard to compete with a chicken — but I felt like I needed to after being invited for dinner aboard a sizable motor cruiser near Johnstone…
Cruising Destinations,Featured,Guest Dock
Destinations: Cozying up to Waiatt Bay
January 3, 2022
Enjoy our latest installment from Lynne Picard of SalishSeaPilot.com about a favorite anchorage on British Columbia's Quadra Island. With unsettled weather in our late-season forecast, we wanted a sheltered place to drop the…
Home for the Holidays
December 22, 2021
Over the years, 48° North has decked the hulls with a variety of boating related yuletide joy. Since it's that season again, we're digging into the vault with some stories of holiday's past to help get you in the spirit. As…
Winter Shakedown: A Year-End Cruise in Icy Alaska Offers Family Warmth
December 16, 2021
This article was originally published in the November 2021 issue of 48° North. Snow and ice crunched under my sea boots while walking down D-dock towards Yahtzee’s slip in Seward Harbor. The boys were ahead of me and I could…
Cruising Destinations,Featured
2022 Waggoner Cruising Guide Now Available
December 10, 2021
The latest edition of the Waggoner Cruising Guide is full of updates and new additions, and it features a new look. “After a tough year of boating due to the Covid-19 restrictions and the Canadian border being closed, there…
Featured,Guest Dock,Cruising Technique
What’s life like on passage?
December 8, 2021
From Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska, all the way south to Mexico and Central America, one of the things I've always enjoyed about writing this blog (going on 7 years!) is that I get to share our family's…
Cruising Stories,Featured,Guest Dock
Happily Home on the Sea
November 22, 2021
Last week I wrote a sailing story for the blog, but it felt a bit rushed to jump back in after so many months off and I didn't hit publish. We'd recently returned home to Yahtzee in southern Mexico, cleaned her up, gotten…