Sunday, October 11th, Events for Ted
On the Water ANNIE TOO is planning on leaving the dock around 11AM (weather permitting) and heading out onto the Bay. The family has asked that if boats have room to take family and friends out, they meet at the Boat Haven Yard Office at 10:15 AM. SPARKLE plans to leave the dock around 10:30 and will be monitoring channel 68. On Land There is a memorial service scheduled from 2 PM to 5 PM at the NW Maritime Center.
October 11th PTSA Fall Nightcap Races Canceled
There will be no races held on October 11th so that PTSA members can attend the memorial service for Ted Pike, scheduled from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday, October 11th, at the NW Maritime Center. Ted was an extraordinary mariner, and an extraordinary friend. No one had a better smile or gave it so often, or freely. Below is lovely remembrance of Ted by Anna Nasset in Three Sheets Northwest. Ted in a PT11. Photo from the Port Townsend Watercraft blog, photo by Ashlyn Ecelberger Brown On Monday, August 24, there were more tears on the docks of [...]
SPARKLE Shines at 45th Shaw Island Classic
PTSA member Guy Hupy and the SPARKLE crew won "First in Division" and "First Overall Monohull" at the 45th Annual Shaw Island Classic. Photo by Kim Carver The 45th Annual Shaw Island Classic Sailboat Race was held on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, sponsored by the San Juan Island Yacht Club. According to the Journal of the San Juan Islands "The race, with 35 boats participating, started at noon with a light breeze. All entrants made it past the half-way point, but the wind came to a stand-still back at the mouth of Friday Harbor." In the end, Guy [...]
MARTHA Gearing up for Monday Transpac Start
Ted Pike made the journey from Port Townsend to visit and sail on MARTHA, It’s good to see friends from Port Townsend. Edensaw Woods has been a strong supporter of our endeavors at the Schooner Martha Foundation and we thank them for their support. MARTHA is preparing for a San Francisco departure and the crew have all gathered for a Friday evening dinner at the Saint Francis Yacht Club. Special thanks to the Saint Francis for hosting MARTHA the week before our departure for Longbeach. We find it an interesting fact that as MARTHA and crew prepare, we [...]
Tales from the R2AK
Tales from the R2AK, Piper and Norton in Nanaimo and how they may (or may not) have brought cat fir into Canada. more here...
SPARKLE, The Boat to Beat
A video from OffCenterHarbor.com
Jim Daubenberger and Ed Barcott Awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards
Two of Port Townsend's most influential sailors, Jim Daubenberger and Ed Barcott, were awarded the Wooden Boat Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 WBF. Port Townsend is often described as a sailor's town but in more recent times it was not always so. Through their efforts, and the efforts of others they inspired, sailing and sailboat racing continue to flourish on our Bay. Here's a tribute to Jim Daubenberger from the Port Townsend Leader. Daubenberger helped launch PT’s modern sailing legacy Sea Scout lessonsJim Daubenberger gives Sea Scout lessons to young sailors at Port Townsend Boat Haven. The [...]
PT Singlehanded Transpac Sailors Get Ready
PT’s Singlehanded TransPac sailors are now completing their final tasks before the start of the race on Saturday, June 28th. After turning the corner and heading south, Jak Mang in his 38″ Ingrid MAITREYA had a couple of days of easy sailing. But that changed as he got closer to San Francisco Bay and found himself in gale. Here’s his story from his blog, S/V MAITREYA. You can follow the race at the Single Handed Sailing Society’s website. Jak Mang’s 38′ Ingrid, MAITREYA. Sunday, June 15, 2014, Tied up at the Berkeley Yacht Club at about 8:30 Saturday [...]
Farewell SIROCCO
One our Bay’s quickest and loveliest boats, Steve Scharf’s SIROCCO. by Larry Fisher It’s often said that all boats are for sale, yet it was hard to believe the rumors we started to hear a few months ago. Could it possibly be true that Steve Scharf was preparing to part with Sirocco? For even in a town blessed with more than its share of special boats, Sirocco was a standout: beautiful, fast, meticulously maintained, and possessed of an esprit de corps that the rest of the fleet could only envy. But after 10 years Steve has sold Sirocco [...]
Don Haviland
Don Haviland, July 14, 1948 – January 7, 2014 We lost Don Haviland in January, after a two year battle with cancer. Don was an active member of our sailing community over the past decade, racing, cruising, working for PTSA and the Moorage Tenant’s Union. It was common to see Don and wife Karen Lee out in the bay on their Rhodes-designed sloop, CUBANA. Don was treasurer of the original PTSA board and contributed a lot to its formation and function. He took the job very seriously and kept us "in the black" and up to date. He [...]
Midsummer Regatta Offers Up Hot Competition In Spite of June-uary Weather
Saturday’s event saw thirteen boats from PT, Port Ludlow and Sequim duking it out in four short round-the-buoys races and then celebrating the solstice Swedish-style with the traditional pickled herring, new potatoes, and aquavit. It was all smiles, especially when the fleet heard that Stig Osterberg, the regatta’s progenitor and resident viking, was going to be okay. Big thanks to Stig Osterberg and Steve Scharf for sponsoring the event; to Dave Burruoghs, Anthony and Co. for their fine work as the race committee; to Jerry and Doug for opening up Goldstar Marine when the rain threatened the after-party; and to [...]
Dan Newland Reports in From the Bleeding Edge
After helping finish up one of the first GP 26s with Brook Dees, and Jim Antrim’s Class 40 built at Berkeley Marine, Dan is again in the Bay area working on the Kiteboat Project, a foiler trimaran that is powered by a kite. Here’s a short report from the always entertaining Mr. Newland. “The boat is a kick. The hulls are 25′ long and weigh about 90 lbs each and (I’m not kidding), overbuilt. We could take probably 20 lbs out of them. Everything is carbon and the core is Nomex. VERY stiff but you can litereally put [...]
Pics from the Sloop John B
Sym Sebastian sent in some pictures from the September 17th PLYC race on Frank Lawson's J/105, JOHN B, with Chris, Kathy and Sym crewing. Sym mentioned that it was blowing a steady 20 with gusts to 28. Got some pictures? Send them in. [slideshow id=36]
Mike Berman Photographs at Center for Wooden Boats
Another nice post from Three Sheets NW by Deborah Bach, this one on PTSA member Mike Berman's photography show at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. To Michael Berman, a trip across the Atlantic was not just an opportunity to cross an ocean, but a chance to capture in photos a force that has mesmerized people for centuries. A marine photographer who lives in Port Ludlow with his wife, Berman sailed from Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands to St. Lucia in the eastern Caribbean in 2007. An exhibit of Berman’s photographs from that crossing opens tomorrow, [...]
Sparkle and Escapade
From the archive of the Balboa Yacht Club, a shot of Sparkle and Escapade racing for the Santana Trophy. Check out Sparkle's aft mainsheet trimmer's cockpit.
Welcome Aboard Anafinna Vera Jacobsen
Launched November 6, 2010 Displacement 7# 15 oz. Bow to Stern 21 inches Full steam ahead with Symbolyn Sebastian (mom) and Eric Jacobsen (dad) Sailing history (while in the belly) Raced on Steppn Annie during first trimester Zipped around Discovery Bay and Adelma Beach on the Sea doo Volunteered @ WBF with the medical team Crossed the Arctic Circle on the M/S Nordkapp in Norway Barged Channel de Midi to the Mediterranean Sea in France
America’s Cup Visits Anacortes
From Kathy G, here's a picture of Ted Pike and his son standing next to the Americas Cup trophy in Anacortes.
In Praise of Martha and Her Crew
[singlepic id=45 w=465 h=365 float=center] The following article ran last November in the new Northwest boating site, Three Sheets Northwest, to celebrate Port Townsend’s own schooner Martha’s victory in the recent Round the County race. In case you missed it, here’s the article and some pictures by Sean Trew of Pacific Fog. […]