Race Report: Toliva Shoal 2025
Boats and sailors made their way from their home ports to Olympia for the annual Toliva Shoal Race on February 15, 2025. The southernmost of the Southern Sound Series is a February classic and marks the third of the four…
Close to the Water: Capsize!
Are You Ready to Self-Recover?
Fern swims towards the bow…
» Gill Front and Side Zip PFD
Maintaining…
Race Report: Shaw Island Winter Classic 2025
The 2025 edition of the Shaw Island Winter Classic was on par with the prior runnings in almost every way, other than maybe the most important one, the direction. During the Summer Shaw, you get to choose your rounding…
#TBT: Rowing the Rapids of the Inside Passage
In our latest Throwback Thursday, heading south from the Broughtons on a small boat, the big rapids of the Inside Passage are calling. If you haven't already read the first in Bruce's series on his Inside Passage small boat…
Shifting gears embodies the idea…
Passes of the Gulf Islands
Perhaps the greatest source of fear for boaters on the B.C. coast are the currents of the many passes one must navigate. The idea of your vessel being swept along by the power of a pass’s unstoppable hydrodynamic force can…
A Flicka 20’s Pacific Odyssey
Join sailor Joshua Wheeler on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at the Port Townsend Sailing Association clubhouse for a presentation about his Pacific voyage on a Flicka 20. In August 2023, Sampaguita, a Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20,…
Pinch Me: Chasing Crabs in Puget Sound
Full disclosure: I am pretty sure I’m the clumsiest, least competent crabber in the Salish Sea. Over the years, an assortment of lines, rings, and bait boxes have slipped through my fingers and into the drink. I have fallen…
Video: One Ocean Planning to Launch in February
If you haven't been following the One Ocean, One Island project going at Skagit Valley College's Marine Maintenance Technology Program in Anacortes, big things are happening. The crew has been hard at work refitting a Bob…