Seattle-based racing sailors Chris Tutmark and Craig Horsfield grew up half a world apart, but even as young boys, learning to maneuver their dinghies around a course, they shared a dream of someday competing in one of boating’s most extreme tests of solo endurance, the Transat 6.50.
Today, they finally get their chance.
It’s remarkable that Tutmark [...]

For at least a few days, Port Townsend might as well have been the center of the universe for wooden boat lovers.
And if there was any questions about whether the 33rd annual Wooden Boat Festival would draw an even bigger crowd than usual,  it evaporated in the Saturday morning sunshine as a line of people [...]

I was introduced to the Bristol Bay gillnetter Admirable in the long, lingering twilight of a balmy midsummer evening in 2008. I’d like to report that it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but my encounters with the Admirable have been more complicated than that, by turns challenging, frustrating, rewarding and even embarrassing—kinda like some [...]

Built your own boat, dreaming about constructing a floating masterpiece or just curious about boat building techniques?
If so, Home Built Boats Weekend is for you.
The event is being held at The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle this weekend and will bring together more than 30 boat builders and their boats and offer two days of seminars, [...]

The passing of time has afforded me the opportunity to look back over the race and think about what worked and what we might have done differently. Clearly, the biggest success for me was the boat getting here in one piece, with nothing to repair. We sailed roughly 2,700 miles, in all sorts of conditions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We all know the marine environment is harsh on boats, but this was testing everything to its limits.

Sunny 75-degree weather ushered in the warmest day for the fourth and final day of racing in the ‘Ohana Harbor Coffee Whidbey Island Race Week regatta.
Two solid races for each of the 10 classes were run by the Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle race committee Friday afternoon in a 6-9 knot westerly. The committee’s big [...]

The fourth day of Whidbey Island Race Week out of Oak Harbor saw the third day of actual racing.
With a minimum of three races shot off each day so far for the 94 classes in 10 starts, this event, 27 years in the running, is an opportunity to immerse oneself in sailing and hone racing [...]