Author: Jim Burgoyne

arger sailboats coming through Seattle’s Ballard Locks to take cover from the season’s first storms will encounter delays if their crews hope to find shelter south of the new SR520 Floating Bridge in Lake Washington. Work...

Our new-fangled “modern” hook seems to dig in quickly and securely regardless of the anchorage’s reputation for holding. That’s the problem.

ruisers have just a couple more weeks this autumn to tie up at state park docks at Sucia, Matia, Jones and James islands in the San Juan Islands. Depending on the weather, state crews...

he US Coast Guard is searching for a British Columbia sailor last seen by a fellow mariner leaving Hilo, Hawaii, in his boat on Aug. 1, 2016. Lt. Donnie Brzuska said in a release...

By Deborah Wilson/CBC News, Sep 19, 2016 iscovery Island Marine Provincial Park off Victoria has been closed to the public after a group of campers had a frightening encounter with a lone wolf. BC Parks...

ecently we have had close encounters with crazed kite boarders off Clover Point while sailing for Victoria Harbour, but perhaps soon there will be flocks of them regardless of whether or not there is a...

CARLA WILSON / TIMES COLONIST The first steel piling is now fixed into the seabed in Victoria Harbour as construction begins on the $24-million super-yacht marina. “I think people are going to be pleasantly...

annah, a friend on our dock, sent us a link to a radio interview with Jackie Hildering, a humpback whale researcher with the Marine Education and Research Society. The interview was about the society’s...

he Marine Detective, Jackie Hildering, recently had a rare encounter with an endangered Leatherback turtle off the west coast of Vancouver Island. A few days earlier the Department of Fisheries and Oceans vessel she...