Nervous about your upcoming trip on your friend or co-worker’s sailboat? Has been a bit too long since you were last on the water? Don’t know the difference between port & starboard, fore & aft, or genoa & mainsail?
It might be time to order up a DVD and sit back in the comfort of your [...]
The Pelicans are Racing Again! Phinney Bay (South end of Dyes Inlet) will again be the site of the 2nd Annual Bremerton Pelican Regatta April 26 and 27. Viking Fleet #3 is a Northwest sailing club that sails 12′ lug rigged San Francisco Bay Pelicans (pdf). These heavy-weather dinghies were designed in the 50’s for [...]
“Red and white canes were strewn all over the grass. There might as well have been a sign: Disabilities left behind. Gone racing!!!”
This quote from 48th North (July 2003) almost says it all about this remarkable organization and its members & participants. You may have seen them on Lake Washington, run into them on the [...]
Thinking about buying a sailboat? Or do you just not want to make a fool of yourself anymore when you go sailing with your friends? Today marks the beginning of an informational series on Sailing Schools in the Pacific Northwest.
If this is the year you want to learn how to sail, this series will let [...]
You’ve always wanted to learn to sail. You are almost ready to sign up for that sailing school but your fears keep holding you back. Well, no more excuses.
Maybe you don’t know how to swim. Lots of sailors can’t swim. The chances of you going in the water are small because only the small dinghies [...]
The $40 billion/year boating industry is struggling to stay afloat during what appears more and more to be the beginning (or middle?!) of an economic recession. Between rising fuel prices and lacksidasical sales that have been dropping almost every month since 2004, the boating industry has been hit early with manufacturing layoffs, plant closures, and abruptly [...]
It is truly amazing how many racing opportunities sailors have on Puget Sound, and many of these opportunities have little to do with Seattle. Last time, we discovered racing in West Sound. Now let the incoming tide take us down past Gig Harbor and through the Tacoma Narrows. Believe or not, we found the SSSS, [...]
Taking your first cruise in the San Juans? Or is it just time to update the contents of your chart table? Here’s a listing of NOAA charts for the Northwest that you can review online. These online charts allow you to zoom in and see great detail of your favorite anchorages or that tricky passage [...]
UK-Halsey sailmakers have a great animated series of quizes for you to test out your sail boat racing knowledge. This series of animated online quizzes is an easy way to learn the rules of racing.
The quizzes are based on common situations when sailboats come together on the race course. The questions are not about obscure, hard [...]
US SAILING’s Olympic Sailing Committee (OSC) recognized a local sailor today - Ben Glass - as Developmental Coach of the Year. He is one of three outstanding sailing coach recipients for the 2007 Coaches of the Year Awards. The awards are a part of the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Coach Recognition Program, which highlights the accomplishments [...]