Are you the next great sailing journalist? Do you think your cruising experiences are worthy of print? Do you just like the idea of seeing your latest sailing yarn in a national magazine? If so, hurry up and write about your recent experience to make the June 30th deadline for SAIL Magazine’s “Cruising North America [...]
We are preparing this week for a four-day charter next week in the San Juan Islands through Anacortes Yacht Charters. This is the first time we’ll be cruising on a boat that is not our own, and so have to make sure that we pack everything we’ll be needing for the trip. First Aid and [...]
I remember a crossing of the Straight of Juan de Fuca that was particularly harsh when I was eight years old. We had taken leave of the safe harbor of Port Townsend early in the morning and were greeted by calm seas for the crossing with our friends in the Catalina 27′ fleet.
No sooner were [...]
We previously posted links to online NOAA charts for Puget Sound and the Northwest, and today wanted to point you in the direction of an online site that publishes waterproof charts for Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest.
I personally have always found these handy charts to be very useful for everyday cruising and racing on Puget Sound [...]
Raingear…. check! Food for your three-day cruise… check! Sunglasses for that rare glimpse of sun…. check! Fire extinguisher and visual distress signals…. what???
Before going out for your first cruise of the year, make sure you have all of the Coast Guard required equipment on your boat, and that it is all is up-to-date and functioning. We [...]
Is yours on this list? If so, you’re in good company. BoatUS released it’s top 10 boat names for 2007 last month. While not scientific in any way, the list is compiled based on the number of requests BoatUS gets through its Graphics and Lettering services.
Gone from the list are such previously-popular names as Obsession, [...]
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