[PDXnative]

So, how is the sailing up in Washington. Puget Sound and Lake Union look like great spots. Any other great sailing in other parts of Washington? Looking for possible vacation areas.

Anyone got any sailing photos for those areas that you can post?

I raced in the Swiftsure last year, which is an international sailboat race out of Victoria, BC that travels out in the Straights of Juan de Fuca. My avatar is a photo taken on that trip.

[MyAzi]

I have not sailed there but did enjoy a few trips around the sound in a friends yacht last summer.

[jabm67]

I am a complete landlubber, but ... In her younger days, my wife sailed a lot on Puget Sound. I don't see many boats on Lake Washington, but there are some. Moorage fees in the Seattle area are ... rude.

Important point: Lake Union is MUCH too congested for recreational sailing!! There's regularly scheduled floatplane service operating out of Lake Union, and lots of working industrial vessels going in and out of there. A pleasure boat on Lake Union in anything other than morning twilight hours (when you may have to watch out for the U of W crew teams working out) had better be running its motor, en route to or from the Ballard Locks on its way between the Sound and the boat's moorage (or haul-out).

Sailing around the San Juan Islands is glorious. Before my father-in-law sold his boat (he's in Anacortes) we did that a few times.

[the dufferz]

PDXnative said:

My avatar is a photo taken on that trip.

well, got that one wrong. Thought you're avatar was blue because you just met markablue moderator. Me bad.

[klpeake]

PDX,

My husband says that the Seattle area has one of the best sailing clubs on the west coast. He is a member of the sailing club out of the Port of Redwood City in CA.

He got 3 banshees for our boys to learn to sail and then he has a 18' hobie and a bass fishing boat. He also had a 22' catalina, but I'm pretty sure that he got rid of that one.

So it sounds like, from what he says, that sailing up in that area is pretty fun and there are lots of people to do it with.