Questions about the shipwrecked sailor rescued on Vancouver Island last week are no closer to be answered after the man was released from Canadian custody and mysteriously returned to the U.S.
Keith Carver was arrested by RCMP officers at a hospital in Port McNeill, B.C., on Friday, where he was being treated after being stranded on [...]

SanJuanJournal.com has this story about a 50-foot boat that sank at the Friday Harbor Marina last week:
The Eldorado sank because of failed shaft packing on the starboard shaft, according to Les Soland of A1 Marine Services/Vessel Assist.
The Eldorado, a 39-year-old, 50-foot Trojan wooden boat that sank Tuesday at the Friday Harbor Marina breakwater dock, was raised [...]

The daffodils tossed into the waters around Blakely Rock Saturday were like the person they signified—sunny, optimistic, full of promise.
Sailors competing in the first race of the Center Sound Series threw the flowers into the water as they rounded the rock, the same way they do each year. The tradition is testament to the immutable [...]

A Victoria rowboat company is expanding in a novel way, launching what it says is the first open water rowing club in the area.
Whitehall Rowing & Sail is holding its grand opening today of the “Whitehall Spirit Rowing Club,” based at the Canoe Club Marina in downtown Victoria. The club allows members to sign up, [...]

The Peninsula Daily News has the story today:
PORT ANGELES — Layoffs at boatbuilder Platypus Marine that started in February have reached 50 percent of the work force, leaving about 30 people without a paycheck, marketing and sales manager Charlie Crane said.
It’s another in a series of furloughs at North Olympic Peninsula shipyards.
Since the beginning of the [...]

The Vancouver Sun has this story of a very fortunate sailor rescued from a trip in which almost everything went wrong:
VICTORIA — A shipwrecked American sailor was plucked off the rugged shores of the west coast of Vancouver Island Wednesday ending a five-day wilderness ordeal eating nothing but lichen.
Keith Carver, 56, of Tucson, Ariz., said he [...]

The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance’s threat to sue five boatyards has sparked an intense reaction among boaters and environmentalists. Yesterday, Three Sheets Northwest talked with the man behind PSA’s controversial move. Today, we look at the toll the legal action has taken on one small boatyard. 
Sitting in her office in an old converted house on a [...]