Graduating Senior Sailor Shoutouts, Part 2
April 27, 2020
Sending Senior Sailors of NWISA Off To Exciting New Adventures As is true for student athletes in any high school sport, senior year is steeped in tradition for sailors around the Pacific Northwest. Each team has their own…
Graduating Senior Sailor Shoutouts, Part 1
April 22, 2020
Sending Senior Sailors of NWISA Off To Exciting New Adventures As is true for student athletes in any high school sport, senior year is steeped in tradition for sailors around the Pacific Northwest. Each team has their own…
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Sowing the Seeds of Speed While Fostering Fun
March 2, 2020
Influential Coaches & the High School Sailing Boom From the February issue of 48° North On a misty Saturday afternoon, I sit with one of the local island families in the Orcas Island High School gym watching their…
Experiential Learning, Maritime Style!
January 17, 2020
Port Townsend Maritime Academy Skills Center When Kelley Watson convenes her high school classes in Port Townsend, it might be in a classroom with a white board with tables and chairs. Or not. More likely, it will be in the…
College Match Racing: The Transition from Dinghies to Keelboats
October 2, 2019
While I can’t claim to know the exact origins of the sport of match racing, I’d be willing to guess that it began sometime immediately after construction of the second sailboat was complete. As humans, we seem to have a…
Setting Sail 2019: A Guide for the Sail Curious
May 7, 2019
Greetings, future sailors! Thank you for picking up this booklet and taking the first steps on your adventure into the fun and rewarding world of sailing. The goal of this guide is to help answer the question: How do I get…
The Coolest Sailing Program You’ve Never Heard Of
October 31, 2017
This 48° North Interview by Joe Cline originally appeared in the October 2017 issue. As many fabulous programs and learning opportunities exist around the Salish Sea, I’m not aware of any that are nearly as committed to…
Red Bull Youth America’s Cup – Bermuda, June 2017
June 28, 2017
Twelve youth teams, twelve nations. The…
Narrows Race Team Sends Four to H.S. National Sailing Championship
May 15, 2017
Alyosha Strum-Palerm, Nicholas Lee, Jack…