Women at the Helm: Going the Distance
A collaborative race report from the crew of the Sierra 26, Dos
Melges 24 Distraction’s Race Week Pursuit Race Win
Anacortes Race Week 2024 featured the event's first-ever pursuit distance race. The winning team was Tom Greetham's Melges 24, Distraction, who also took home Race Week's top honors overall. Here's their pursuit race story…
Anacortes Race Week 2024
The PNW's flagship summertime event for fun, friends, and competition certainly delivered, with racing each day across an array of fleets, including the 6 Meter North Americans. The sailing world converged in Anacortes once…
The Red Ruby Project: Cap-Martinique Race
Sending it with the kite up was great until 30…
SEVENTY48: 2024 Race Recap
The bells have rung, the oar blades have taken their final dip, and SEVENTY48 2024 is a speck in the gunwale-mounted rearview mirror. 128 teams, each packing months of prep and giddy anticipation, launched from a swanky new…
Swiftsure 2024: Always a Challenge, Definitely Challenging This Year
The region's most storied long distance sailboat race gave its participants a wide array of challenges this year—from gear busting wind to zero wind in opposing current. The 2024 version of the Swiftsure International Yacht…
Rough and Rewarding: Pacific NW Offshore 2024
Success! It definitely wasn't easy, but the Tachyon crew…
Norn’s Race to the Straits, Including C.O.B. Recovery
Norn's Report: Two Sailors and a C.O.B. Rescue The first weekend in May brings Sloop Tavern Yacht Club’s immensely popular doublehanded romp from Seattle to Port Townsend and back, Race to the Straits (RTTS). This year was…
Two Very Different Tri-Island Races
The skipper of the J/99 One Life shares the story of a pair of dichotomous springtime distance races. They won their class in each event. Smith Island This season has been memorable for strong winds, including 50 knots true…
Alyosha and Jonathan have sailed Red Ruby…