Housing: Here’s Something We Can Do
What if we told you that we can’t solve the homeless crisis by building houses? That’s a pretty counterintuitive statement, especially coming from an...
Crab season: Your Handy Guide
Crab season starts Thursday. Insider tip: There’s a secret way to consistently get Dungeness crabs here in Port Townsend. You can’t miss. Here it...
Hush-hush: Our Biggest Park is a Local Secret
Port Townsend is surrounded by state parks. From Point Hudson, we look into at least five: Fort Worden and Fort Casey to the east,...
One Small Fire, Thousands of Seabirds
This summer, as in countless summers past, Protection Island became a colossal daycare center for tens of thousands of seabirds.
Glaucous winged gulls laid their...
The 2021 Shipwrights’ Regatta: Maximum Fun
photo above by Joel Rogers
Most Washingtonians recognize that February is a winter month, and that the weather can go from calm to gale-force and...
A Boating Conundrum
Boating season is here! There are a lot of boats in Jefferson County, but is anyone aware that those who go out on the...
Homelessness: What you see isn’t what you get
Dan looked like an Army sergeant. Denise looked like a Vogue model.
If you had crossed paths with them in downtown Port Townsend in the...
Off Track! The Log of the Roberto
By Doug Edelsein
In Port Townsend, when you buy your first boat, you get a lot of advice – almost all of it good.
“Don’t buy...
The View From Blyn Lookout
A couple of months ago my husband, Bruce, and I bought a new-to-us camper, the cabover style, from some folks out near Lake...
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What Puget Sound Pilots Want You to Know
It may sound counterintuitive, but when a big ship leaves the high seas and enters the restricted waters of Puget Sound, it is entering...
So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
On the hard: Chichagof
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
The Power Scow Chichagof.
Chichagof is a power scow, a salmon scow, a fish tender. The U.S....
On the hard: Thea Foss
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
Movie Stars, Depth Charges and Tugboat Annie: The Story of the Thea Foss
I still can't think of...
America’s Guidebooks: The Way We Were
Eighty years ago this fall, the state Historical Society published “Washington: A Guide to the Evergreen State.” At 700 pages and some 250,000 words,...
