Winter Boating

 

Our most recent winter boating posts are here

 

Tips and techniques

• Winterizing

• Pressure slopes

• "Winter Cruising", Pacific Yachting, January 2006.

• "Christmas Afloat", Pacific Yachting, December 2004.

• Night traffic

• "Navigating At Night", Pacific Yachting, July 2006.

 

Winter Cruising in Washington

• More snow ... and freezing rain

• Snow

• Unseasonable South Sound Snow

• 57-knot winds in Swinomish Channel

• Big Winter Storm

• Thanksgiving in the South Sound

• Snow falling on cedars

• High winds off  Port Ludlow

• Christmas in the San Juan Islands

• 54-knot winds in Watmough Bay

• Mt. Constitution, Orcas Island

 

Winter Cruising in British Columbia

• Christmas Cruise 2011: Barkley Sound

• Trouble at Teakerne

• Storm Force Winds in the Strait of Georgia

• Displacement Speed Beats Planing Speed ... Again

• Winter Cruise 2008 Highlights

• Pirates Cove Marine Park

• Mount Tzouhalem, Genoa Bay

• Butchart Gardens Christmas Light Display

• "Winter Boating: Snow, Storms, and Solitude", Pacific Yachting, December 2007.

• "A Christmas Cruise on the Sunshine Coast", Pacific Yachting, December 2006.

• "Braving the Broughtons", Pacific Yachting, December 2004.

• "Wonderful in Winter: Princess Louisa Inlet", PassageMaker, October 2004.

• Christmas in Desolation Sound and Princess Louisa Inlet/Chatterbox Falls.