Boat captain breaks up potential battle between orcas, deer
aptain of a whale watching boat stepped in to assist a wayward deer that swam dangerously close to a pod of orcas on the weekend. A group of whale watchers were out on a...
Category: Currents
Nuts and bolts of Canada Customs
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”OgqL30TNVJ8″ width=”854″ height=”480″ anchor=”https://salishseapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/slowboat-customs.jpg”] he folks at SlowBoat.com, which runs flotillas of cruising vessels from Anacortes to Juneau, Alaska each year, have put together a video that we think is just about the best source...
Jarrell Cove’s south dock now has power
oaters who can’t live without a microwave oven (or other things AC) will be happy that popular Jarrell Cove State Park now has power to one of its docks. Crews have installed 30-amp power...
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...
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...
