Docks in the San Juans booked to be removed
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...
Author: Jim Burgoyne
Refuge Cove spells relief
When their spouse has seemed to turn a deaf ear, Refuge Cove offers sailors a chance to get things off their chest. It also has provisions and fuel.
US Coast Guard searches for missing BC mariner
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...
Encounter with lone wolf closes Discovery Island
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...
Avoiding the drones
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”BuRf6r0LuL8″ width=”854″ height=”480″ anchor=”https://salishseapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/drone.jpg”] 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...
Work begins on super-yacht marina in Victoria
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...
See a blow, go slow
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...
How to kill a dinosaur
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...
Hope Island is a good start
Decisions, decisions… Hope Island offers many options to cruisers with a yen to explore southwest Puget Sound. It also the perfect place if you need extra time to ponder where to go next.
Blind Bay comes into view
Blind Bay’s excellent shelter and anchoring depths at a crossroads in the San Juan Islands make it the perfect place to rendezvous with friends who love the taste of fresh crab.
