Of the many places we love to sail to in Puget Sound, Port Townsend is among our favorites.
It’s got cool old Victorian buildings. It has a great marina with a family-owned Chinese joint where the food is garnished with intricately carved vegetables. It has the charming, century-old Rose Theatre, one of the most beautiful movie houses [...]

Hurricane Jimena is fading away, and we just got a call from our boat surveyor, Allan Smith, in San Carlos, Mexico. 
The storm has taken a major toll on the seaside town. The power is out. Cell phones don’t work. And the water is off. Flooding has closed the highway and collapsed a bridge on the main road [...]

Our bad timing is unbelievable. If it wasn’t so serious, it’d be funny.
Exactly five days after buying our new sailboat, we suddenly have something much more serious to worry about than how to get the boat from Mexico to Seattle: a hurricane.
Hurricane Jimena howled up the Baja coast today with sustained winds of 145 mph, [...]

The signing of some papers, a trip to the bank and just like that, we officially became boat owners again a few days ago.
It’s hard to believe that gorgeous Island Packet 38 is ours, just sitting there in Mexico waiting for us to bring it home.
It doesn’t quite seem real yet. If the boat was [...]

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died this week of brain cancer at age 77, leaves behind a monumental legacy and will be remembered for many reasons—among them his passion for sailing.
Kennedy sailed as recently as two weeks ago on his beloved boat Mya, finding solace on the water during the last days of his life. “The [...]

A Dutch court is scheduled to decide on Friday whether 13-year-old Laura Dekker will be legally allowed to pursue her plans to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
Dekker’s parents think it’s a fine idea, but authorities think otherwise.
The Dutch Council for Child Protection is so concerned about the dangers of the girl’s planned [...]

Mike Seely at the Seattle Weekly newspaper wrote a nice piece about Three Sheets Northwest on the paper’s blog The Daily Weekly. As former ink-stained wretches who toiled at Seattle’s two daily newspapers (when there were two), we appreciate the shout out from a fellow journalist. It even included a mention of wonder kitty Lily, who is now busy shopping for an agent [...]