Working boats

We at nwyachting.com and Northwest Yachting wish you and your crew a safe, happy and joyous season. This bittersweet story from a time gone by is really about how a …

  French sailing isn’t all high-tech multihulls and Minis, there is a huge interest in traditional boats, which were often unique to a small stretch of coast. They are all classed …

Yet another vessel has sunk at its dock, this one in Eagle Harbor at Bainbridge Island. Chickagmauga was designed by Ted Geary and  built in 1915. Read the excellent account …

Northwest Seaport’s Lightship No. 83 “Swiftsure” was re-launched on August 21st after three months of major restoration work at Lake Union Drydock Company (LUDC).  This yard period has seen its …

The Tacoma Maritime Festival is full on this weekend. Click here for full information and a program pdf. There are kids activities, the chance to board everything from a tall …

The Columbia River Maritime Museum completed the total restoration of the old Astoria train depot last winter and re-opened this historic building as a maritime craft center. The depot was …

Alert contributor Peter Marsh passed along a tip that, again, there’s talk of a new age of commercial sail. We’ll see. If the business press is writing about it, somebody’s …

Thanks to alert reader (and a former skipper of mine) Larry Hoppe and alert Northwest Yachting contributor Peter Marsh, we heard about the container ship MOL Comfort, which apparently broke …

Workboats are a big part of the waterfront, and their operators often take just as much pride in their vessel’s condition and performance as they would of their own personal …