Three Sheets Northwest

State funding not available for biggest derelict vessels (video)

Deborah Bach — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:07:45 +0000

KUOW’s Ashley Ahern has the story: OLYMPIA, Wash. — There are more than 200 abandoned or sunken ships in Washington waters. These vessels can threaten navigation, human safety and the environment. But state agencies in the Northwest are only equipped to handle part of the problem. We tend to romanticize shipwrecks as water-logged remnants of [...]

Great deal on Northwest cruising guides

Marty McOmber — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:05:34 +0000

As many of you know by now, Three Sheets Northwest is a co-founder of BoatPop.com, a weekly site for local deals on boating-related products and services. This week’s deal is great for those looking to upgrade their cruising library — 30 percent off any book or map published by Fine Edge — including the new [...]

Don’t buy a wooden boat…buy a fiberglass one and add as much wood as possible

Everyone's Travel Club - Blog — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:56:51 +0000

Don't buy a wooden boat...buy a fiberglass one and add as much wood as possible. I don't know who said that catchy phrase, well, actually, I think it is just me saying it. Our Kingsley boat project of last week was heading over to my friends shop and working on new galley sink/trash covers [...]

Restaurant, microbrewery and guest moorage among changes at Tacoma’s Narrows Marina

Deborah Bach — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:51 +0000

Few, if any, Northwest marinas can boast covered moorage, boat storage, a restaurant with a huge deck, a microbrewery and a bait and tackle shop all on one site. But the Narrows Marina in Tacoma will soon be able to. The marina is nearing the end of an extensive renovation that co-owner Scott Wagner said [...]

Storm management

John Vigor — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:42:00 +0000

I AMREMINDED very forcibly now and then that while men change, and manners change,and even boats change, the sea does not. I have often heard that the best wayof riding out a gale at sea is to heave to, but this is what I read the otherday in a 1946 edition of A Manual for [...]

San Diego

Drew Smith — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:04:19 +0000

Soooo, once again I've been too busy to update the blog on anything approaching a regular basis, and now I'm left with a tonne of things to post about. It's currently 7am on a Saturday morning, and I've been driven out of bed by the noise of dozens of little fish hurling themselves out of [...]

Sailor rescued after ‘out of control’ boat swept ashore

Deborah Bach — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:30 +0000

A sailor and liveaboard was rescued last weekend after strong winds blew his boat ashore on Whidbey Island. Gill McKinstry was in his house on Sunlight Beach and looked out at Useless Bay to see a 26-foot Thunderbird, Kat’s Eyes, being blown toward shore around 7 a.m. Saturday morning. McKinstry said the boat’s sails were [...]

Making Mistakes, Continued

Bill Ray — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:00:12 +0000

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman says we have two mental systems that see the world very differently. System 1 is our subconscious which continuously watches and listens, looking for interesting or threatening things, processing huge amounts of raw perception into manageable meaningful associations. This intuitive system 1 then passes its executive summaries to system 2, the [...]

My Boat | MV Rosario

Deborah Bach — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:00:37 +0000

Sometimes you have to go through a few boats to find the right one. That was the case with Jerry and Rebecca McRorie's Skagit Express Cruiser, Rosario. They'd owned numerous boats before, but when they saw Rosario, it was love at first sight.

Stories from the Sea of Cortez

Sara Johnson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:20:54 +0000

We are now back in La Paz after spending three magical weeks exploring the Sea of Cortez a hundredish miles north of here. While our To Do List Before Crossing the Pacific consumes us now, we tried to put it out of our minds during our time up north and just enjoy exploring this stunning [...]