A terrific first hand account and pictures from Kurt Watkins from the 49th running of the PNW Offshore race last weekend.

The 2025 Etchells North Americans were hosted by San Diego Yacht Club last weekend and Seattle’s own Brian Ledbetter was on the winning team.

A whole lot of chatter around town these last few weeks about safety on the race course. As we get ready for Swiftsure, it is a good time to have a team discussion about staying clear of the commercial traffic.

We are not doing full coverage of the PNW Offshore, but we could not help but watch the tracker as 21 boats make their way to Victoria, including three from Seattle.

The Swiftsure International Yacht Race turning mark on its way from Port Renfrew to the Swiftsure Bank where it will do its best to impersonate a light ship.

After a 90 minute delay for no wind, the 2025 Vashon Island race delivered the third fastest time on record, and a very close finish between Terramoto and Hooligan.

Bruce Hedrick has a way of reducing mountains of meteorological inputs to an understandable weather plan for the race. We are very lucky that he shares his gift with us each Friday.

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Bruce Hedrick shares his deep wisdom about the weather conditions for the weekend of May 3 - 4 and Sloop Tavern’s Race to the Straits.

William Weinstein and his team ‘Terramoto’ extend their Protection Island Race winning streak to three in a row.

Legendary navigator and weather forecaster, Bruce Hedrick, shares his thinking about how the forecast will impact the racing on Puget Sound this weekend

The Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle, after hosting the J/24 World Championships last year, is hosting the 2025 US National Championship for mixed gender crews with no more than 2 males over 18 years old. 

Crossfire setting the line honors record for the SYC Protection Island Race in 2018. 8 hours, 42 minutes, 59 seconds. Nigel Barron Photo.

Three weeks to go until Seattle Yacht Club’s Protection Island Race.  Register today to compete or follow this biennial classic that has been running since 1912.

Today was a day when sailboat racing was very fun to watch. The sunshine helped, plenty of wind was nice, the mountains looked spring spectacular, but the neck and neck competition between super skilled sailors stole the show.

Fifteen J/70s enjoy a beautiful day of racing on Puget Sound with Dalton and Lindsey Bergan on ‘Mossy’ establishing a good lead after five races. Also, in the nine boat J/105 fleet, Jeffrey Pace and is crew on ‘Lift Off’ scored second in every race to prove that consistency is the key to winning sailboat regattas.

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There are now 15 J/70s registered for the event including some of our reigning world title holders along with highly capable, but yet undecorated rising stars.

A dramatic rescue of sailors overboard during the Possession Point Race will ensure that the 2025 Center Sound Series will be remembered for a while.

Registrations are open for the Pacific Northwest One Design Regatta (“POD”) to be hosted by the Seattle Corinthian Yacht Club on the waters of Shilshole Bay on March 29^th and 30^th.