Sailish.com is Kurt Hoehne's blog on sailing on the Pacific Northwest's Salish Sea. For starters, it
Sailish.com is Kurt Hoehne's blog about sailing on the Pacific Northwest's Salish Sea. Weather, racing, cruising, kids on boats are covered for starters.
07/27/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 26, 27, 28, and 29 July. Cut and paste from last week. Pacific Cup is wrapping up, and NW boats doing great! Finally, the Pacific High is setting up in a normal position and with a thermal low-pressure trough inland, the onshore flow will continue down the Straits keeping the smoke from the wildfires in e…
07/20/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 July. Summer is here, get out and enjoy it, remember fire danger is still increasing. Not much has changed since last week. We still have a weak Pacific High offshore (1022MB) and a lobe of that high centered over western Washington. We also still have a thermal trough over eastern …
07/17/2024
Well-known and highly experienced Seattle racer (and skipper of the J/125 Hamachi) got a literal taste of Lake Michigan during the recently concluded Chicago to Mackinac race. The fleet was blasted by severe storms, so much so that the elapsed record was shattered by the Andrews 80 Maverick. Here is a video of interviews with the skippers of the…...
Seattle Sailor Shawn Dougherty saved in Chicago Mackinac MOB Well-known and highly experienced Seattle racer (and skipper of the J/125 Hamachi) got a literal taste of Lake Michigan during the recently concluded Chicago to Mackinac race. The fleet was blasted…
07/15/2024
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Sail Sand Point Fundraiser July 25 Our friends at Sail Sand Point remain committed to getting people of all walks of life on the water. This is a chance to provide some support, have a good meal and share the evening with fellow sai…
07/15/2024
Our friends at Sail Sand Point remain committed to getting people of all walks of life on the water. This is a chance to provide some support, have a good meal and share the evening with fellow sailors. If you're unfamiliar with Sail Sand Point, check it out. From Seth Muir, Executive Director, Sail Sand Point: Sail Sand Point, Seattle's community nonprofit sailing center on Lake Washington, serves over 15,000 people each year with their sailing programs....
Sail Sand Point Fundraiser July 25 Our friends at Sail Sand Point remain committed to getting people of all walks of life on the water. This is a chance to provide some support, have a good meal and share the evening with fellow sai…
07/12/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 12, 13, 14, and 15 July. Start of Pacific Cup With Beryl striking Texas and then traveling north and dumping rain followed by blazing heat it has been quite a week for weather. In the Pacific Northwest, we have had great cruising weather and f…
06/22/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 June. Plenty of activity on the water this weekend and NO SALISH 200, thank god! I don’t think there could be a worse idea for a race, especially at this time of the year! Today will be the warmest day of the weekend, with Saturday being slightly cooler and Sunday being substantially cooler. Then it will return to pretty ideal Pacific NW weather with highs in the mid…
06/15/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 14, 15, 16, and 17 June. Considering what’s happening in the rest of the country, we’ll take it! Next week will be quite interesting with the potential for a tropical system to form in the Gulf of Mexico and a heat dome to set up in the Northeastern US with the possibility of setting a slew of…
06/08/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 June. Tomorrow is World Oceans Day; love and appreciate the water we play on! R2AK Starts on Sunday. The good weather is here, and summer is finally on its way even though summer won’t officially start until June 20th. Plus, we have the lowest tides of the year right now so lots to do either on th…
06/01/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 31 May, 1, 2, 3, and 4 June. An exciting weekend of weather ahead. Don’t underestimate it! It’s not very often we get this weather configuration this late in the spring. However, in this era of Climate Change, we have learned to expect just about anything. As you can see from today& #8217…
05/18/2024
Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 17, 18, 19, and 20 May. Saturday not so good, Sunday better. The big racing for this week started yesterday with the 48th Pacific Northwest Offshore Race (formerly the Oregon Offshore) which goes from Ilwaco at the mouth of the Columbia River to Victoria, BC…