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Maximise Your Yacht Investment: Understanding Yacht Sales Tax How to Save on Tax with Yacht Ownership:- It has been said that the only things inevitable in life are death and taxes. Yacht ownership normally involves some large numbers, and even at relatively small percentages of those large numbers the taxes and fees demanded by local, state, […]

Ocean Trawler Yachts, a leading yacht dealership in Seattle, proudly announces its rebranding as Ocean Pacific Yachts. Under the leadership of Andrew Trueblood, CEO and Owner of Ocean Pacific Yachts, the company continues its commitment to excellence in yacht sales and services. Founded on a legacy of over 60 years of combined experience, Ocean Pacific […]

Single screw inboards suffer from an inaccurate reputation. Some boaters labor under the impression that controlling a single engine powerboat, particularly in close quarter situations, is an arcane art or esoteric science. Many a mind’s eye must envision a ceremony during which a capricious King Neptune instantly bestows the secret knowledge required to tame a […]

Writing about the launch in 1959, Ship and Shore columnist Norman Hacking observed, “She has been on the ways for more than a year because Al Bryant, manager of the yard, and Mr. Brooks [the owner] were determined that only the best quality workmanship and materials should go into her.”
Yellow cedar planks below the water line and red cedar above were specified an inch and a quarter thick. Bent oak frames were spaced ten inches apart. Laminated deck beams measured three and seven eighths inches in thickness, and spaced just fifteen inches apart. Her original power plants were twin 325 HP GM diesels.

The pleasure boat paradigm began shifting in the middle of the 20th Century. Simultaneous developments in the United States and Great Britain ushered in the era of long range voyaging under power. In southern California, naval architect Arthur DeFever, who designed most of the tuna and sardine fish boats built in the 1950’s, was a […]

As the 19th Century transitioned to the 20th and Benjamin Beneteau was combatting the smear tactics of competing shipyards, mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel was perfecting his modification of the internal combustion engine. Diesel was aware that over 90% of the fuel used in steam engines was wasted, never converted to mechanical propulsion. Diesel correctly theorized […]

Selene, Nordhavn, Kadey-Krogen; from a historical perspective these and other leading brands of trawlers are relative newcomers. The term “trawler” is now universally understood to refer to a power vessel, generally designed for economical, long range, coastal or trans-oceanic cruising. A contemporary pleasure boater contemplating a serious sea voyage will begin with a fundamental choice […]

So, if a boater takes care in Pole Pass, around Blind Island, thinks twice before attempting Wasp Passage, remains aware of hazards near Johns Pass and follows general advice about entering Fisherman Bay, everything else should be a snap, right? No, not quite. We have endeavored to list some of the more common challenges in […]

Blind Bay is along the north shore of Shaw Island, immediately west of the Shaw Island ferry landing and the popular Shaw Island General Store. Good anchorage is available here, with Blind Island protecting much of the bay from northerlies and Shaw Island blocking winds from the south.