Exceptional Tasar World Championship on Puget Sound
The Bergans take the top spot in a highly competitive Worlds fleet during a week that offered sun and wind for all five days of racing in central Puget Sound. The Seattle-based pair of Dalton and Lindsay Bergan won the Tasar…
Lake Chelan Regatta 2022
The crew aboard the author's Moore 24, Skosh, including baby Andrei. When we moved from Santa Cruz to Lake Chelan late last year, we were thrilled to find the Lake Chelan Sailing Association (LCSA). For $40 per year and four…
A Sea of Pink Doing a Mountain of Good: Pink Boat Regatta 2022
The volunteer committee at Seattle's Pink Boat Regatta, flying their colors in support. For the uninitiated, the Pink Boat Regatta would appear to be hundreds of people, on dozens of boats, who just love to wear pink. Boats…
PITCH 2022 Delivers On Its Slogan
"Come for the wind, stay for the party!" Bellingham's PITCH gave sailboat racers exactly what they'd hope for over Labor Day Weekend. PITCH has been a favorite Labor Day weekend regatta in the North Sound for nearly 50 years…
Thunderbird Racers take to Port Townsend Bay for West Coast Championships
A fun, competitive fleet duked it out on Port Townsend Bay for the Thunderbird West Coast Championships. There is something about that sulfury aroma of kelp-infused varnish, teak, and weed that just says Port Townsend. And…
Pacific Cup 2022:An Offshore Dream Achieved
Sailing across the ocean has always been on “the list,” but for some reason, I wasn’t sure it would actually happen. It just seemed like such a far-fetched and crazy idea — and how many people really do something like that?…
Down the Sound: Finding the Breeze to Tacoma and Back
The Sloop Tavern Yacht Club’s two-day Down the Sound race was back as a destination event for 2022, this time with a course to Tacoma’s Foss Harbor Marina instead of Gig Harbor. This single and doublehanded pursuit-style…
Clockwise Racers Take 50th Shaw Island Classic
In a race that goes two directions, clockwise was the way to go in the 50th edition of the Shaw Island Classic. Blue skies, sunshine and predictions of uniform, northerly winds of 8 to 10 knots in San Juan Channel had racers…
Little Boats on the Big Stage
The Gorge delivers for Optimist Nationals! When I told people in 2019 that the Columbia Gorge Racing Association (CGRA) was thinking about putting in a bid for the USODA Opti Nationals, I got a lot of responses, usually…
PNW Teams Win Big in 2022 Pacific Cup
The 2022 version of the Pac Cup saw a large contingent of boats from the Pacific Northwest on the start line, and they didn't disappoint. In what proved to be an exceptionally tricky year weather-wise to race from San…
