The 2017 Seattle Boats Afloat Show at South Lake Union is on the horizon, and it looks like there will once again be plenty of new boats to peruse at the West Coast’s largest floating show. This year’s event gets underway at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 14 and runs throughout the weekend, closing at […]
When the following email from the Northwest Maritime Center’s Jake Beattie hit my inbox (and many others), I have to say, I was surprised. Surprised, but not overly stunned. This is big news for Port Townsend and boaters around the Salish Sea… There’s no way of getting around the bigness of this news so I’ll just […]
The Port of Poulsbo has completed a major upgrade to its guest moorage electrical power systems, and in doing so, now complies with the National Electrical Code. The Guest Moorage facilities at the popular Puget Sound destination have been outfitted with GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) breakers to catch vessels putting out stray current. As a […]
It’s been a long time since Olympia residents and visiting boaters have had a fuel dock in downtown — 1999 to be exact. But that’s all about to change when the new fuel dock opens at Swantown Marina in late July. When Swantown Marina was permitted and built in 1983, the Port of Olympia anticipated […]
Friday Harbor now has a brewery and it’s located in a boat shop — because this is Friday Harbor, so of course it is. Called The Friday Harbor Oar House, their mantra is “brewed by locals, for locals” and the location leans more towards “hard to find” than “easy to miss.” One might conclude that […]
As they do every year, BoatU.S. has recently announced their top 10 boat names from the past 365 days. The names come from tallying up requests for boat names to the BoatUS Graphics service, and each reveal much about the personality of the vessel’s owner. The BoatUS 2017 Top 10 Boat Names: Serenity: The utter calm […]
Nicola ‘Nikki’ Henderson, 23, from Guilford, UK, has been named as the Skipper who will lead the Visit Seattle team in the upcoming edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. “I’m thrilled to be appointed as the Visit Seattle Skipper for the 2017-18 race edition,” said Nikki, who at aged 23, is also […]
