The invisible harbor
Mackaye Harbor is a sheltered, peaceful anchorage which offers cruisers much more than is readily apparent when you first drop the hook.
Author: Jim Burgoyne
520 Bridge east channel blocked to sailboats
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...
Good anchors complicate your life
Our new-fangled “modern” hook seems to dig in quickly and securely regardless of the anchorage’s reputation for holding. That’s the problem.
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...
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...
