First Time Around: A Newbie’s Van Isle 360 Adventure
The author (left) was thrilled to get back…
Race Report: J/70 Mixed-Plus National Championship
A conversation with winning skipper Dalton Bergan about the first national level regatta in the region for this rapidly growing one-design. The J/70 one-design activity in the Pacific Northwest continues its meteoric rise…
Anchors, Breakage, Building Breeze, and Delight: Swiftsure 2025
The biggest, grandest distance race in the region provided a whole lot of variety this year, and allowed long course boats to test out some seldom used gear—anchors—before those who continued were rewarded with more classic…
Pacific NW Offshore: TC’s First Ocean Race
Light to building, fun to freezing—this young Hobie 33 crew learned a lot of important and worthwhile lessons on their first offshore race. A few days before this year’s Pacific NW Offshore, from lovely Ilwaco, Washington to…
EYC “Live on the Edge” Multihull Regatta Coming June 7-8
The 2025 edition of the Eugene Yacht Club's (EYC) "Live on the Edge" Multihull regatta is only 5 weeks away! The regatta also serves as the 2025 Weta North American West Coast Championship and is incorporated in the 2025…
Race to the Straits 2025
With northerly winds, a strong ebbing tide and transient orca sightings, it was a Race to the Straits to remember. Here's the story from Santa Cruz 27, Norn. An 8:47 a.m. start on a crisp spring morning marked our third Race…
Race Report: CYC POD and PSSR
It’s not really spring in Seattle until Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle (CYC) gets boats large and small around the buoys for their spring regattas. This year, CYC divided the fleets differently for several reasons…
Race Report: Southern Straits 2025
From a light air morning start to a full on gale building at night, this year's Southern Straits Race was a slow-motion, fast-motion affair. Southern Straits is always held over Easter Weekend and this year Easter was in…
Race Report: Blakely Rock Benefit Race
It was a light air coin toss in this year's lap around Blakely Rock dedicated to Carol Pearl.
Breaking the #1 Rule: An Overboard Survival Story
A harrowing and heartening first-hand account from one of the crew who was swept overboard during the CYC Seattle Possession Point Race on March 8, 2025, and the incredible rescue that ensued. "Well, I broke the first rule…
