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…
First of Many – J/109 Spyhop’s Inaugural Southern Straits Race
An experienced Puget Sound crew heads north for their first ever Southern Straits Race. It left the skipper "satisfied and inspired" and will be the first of many journeys to the springtime classic in the Strait of……
Optimism Delivers: CYC Pulley Point Race
Rounding out the mostly wild Center Sound Series—Corinthian Yacht Club's spring mid-distance series—the Pulley Point Race deviated from the trend with concerns about light breeze rather than a gear buster. In the end, it was…
Blowing Dogs Off Chains
CYC's Center Sound Series Blakely Rock and Possession Point races were wild, and then much wilder. The series wraps up tomorrow with the Pulley Point Race and, for now, looks a bit more civilized in the breeze department.…
