Actually, it’s early in the year to make a proclamation of that sort, so I may be tempting fate a bit… there could certainly be an actual Great Tsunami at some point later in the year in which case I’ll probably regret my sarcasm here. Let’s hope not, for reasons other than the potential wounding [...]
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Art show aims to shed light on Eagle Harbor liveaboards
Craig Spencer knows some people view the liveaboard community in Eagle Harbor as a group of floating freeloaders.
But Spencer wants people to understand that it’s something else: a low-income community in danger of displacement, a culture facing possible extinction as plans move ahead to establish an open-water marina in the popular harbor off Bainbridge Island.
An [...]
Decadent Living
My timing of the tides and currents through the San Juans en route to Seattle proved to be masterful and heroic in scale… yet deficient in one particular: Spieden Channel.
I’d worked out our trip from Sidney to Seattle precisely accounting for the tides and currents at Sidney, through Haro Straight, down San Juan Channel, and [...]
Having it both ways
Editor’s note: Scott Wilson, who writes the Late Entry blog for Three Sheets Northwest, is at the Olympics with his wife aboard their sailboat, Insegrevious.
I don’t want to say that I am feeling cozy, particularly, because that’s really more a word that my wife would use and she would mean something completely different than I [...]
The Olympics, from the water
One of the primary benefits of cruising is going interesting places and doing fun things there, and there may be no place that is at once as interesting and fun as a hosting city during the Olympic games.
Vancouver is alive with the buzz of fans and athletes, a special place at a special moment in [...]
A day of inspiration for women boaters
If you’re planning to attend the 13th Annual Women’s Boating Seminar in Seattle this weekend but haven’t registered yet, better act fast – there are just a few spots left.
Judy Nasmith, who founded and organizes the event, said there are 120 women registered for Saturday’s event, which usually draws about 90 attendees, and only about [...]
Q&A: Sailor and author Janna Cawrse Esarey on keeping love afloat at sea
In 2003, novice sailor Janna Cawrse Esarey got married and embarked on a most unusual honeymoon, a two-year voyage by sailboat across the Pacific Ocean. She details the experience in her honest, vivid and highly entertaining memoir “The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning [...]
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