The author and daughter, Vela,…
Is This Even Real?! 48° North Cruising Rally 2023
The best sailing of the trip, broad reaching in…
Reviving Hope: Hōkūleʻa’s One Day Stop in Port Townsend
The storied voyaging canoe, Hōkūleʻa, completed its visit to Puget Sound ports this week with an emotional reception in Port Townsend.
Three Sheets NW: Princess Louisa Inlet
One of several pleasant surprises about Backeddy…
#TBT High Latitude Sailing – Immersion Style
In our latest Throwback Thursday, PNW journalist David Schmidt has a conversation with adventurer and writer, Cameron Dueck. The article ran in the July 2012 issue of 48° North, a few years after Dueck departed Victoria, BC,…
Editor’s Letter: Quiet Islands
Spoiler alert for the 48° North Cruising Rally feature article in this issue (page 36) — it was amazing! One element of this rally’s awesomeness was how unseasonably quiet the islands felt. The anchorages of the San Juan and…
#TBT: Five Days, Four Islands – A Brief Journal of the Unexpected
In our latest Throwback Thursday, we follow along on a sailing journey through the San Juan Islands where every day and moment must be savored.
Shifting Gears: Mechanical Machinations
Powerboat cruising is fast and fun... when the engine works! Several days into our thus-far blissful and easy summer cruise on our new-to-us C-Dory 22, Sea Lab, we landed in Edmonds to refuel. My partner in life and…
The finished flatbread.Its secret flavor…
Alluring Alaska: The Ups, Downs and Rewards of Cruising “The Last Frontier”
Yahtzee anchored and stern-tied at Fox Island……
