A most delightful paddle
On Mother’s Day, we set out to get a solid training paddle in. With just a few weeks until SEVENTY48, we wanted to increase…
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Paddle Puget Sound
Summer 2026 Bioluminescence in Puget Sound: Best Dates
Summer 2026 Bioluminescence Bioluminescence is one of the most unique things you can experience on Puget Sound. On the right summer night, every stroke of…
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Summer 2025 Bioluminescence in Puget Sound: Best Dates
Hands-down, the best thing about paddling at night is bioluminescence. While we have seen this phenomenon in many different locations and seasons, your best bet…
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Exploring Quartermaster Harbor
Getting to Quartermaster One of the reasons we picked March 1st for exploring Quartermaster Harbor was the wind prediction: no winds of any speeds…
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Summer 2024 Bioluminescence in Puget Sound: Best Dates
Hands-down, the best thing about paddling at night is bioluminescence. While we have seen this phenomenon in many different locations and seasons, your best bet…
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Ein Kleines Nachtpaddel
The time change has me thinking about how the days are getting shorter and the temperatures cooler. For many paddlers, the kayaking season is over.
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An Aerial View
I’m sure that most people reading this have a similar reaction to mine when flying over bodies of water: “I could paddle that.” Our trip…
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Spring Camping Trip to Hope Island
This year, our first kayak camping trip of the season happened to be Earth Day weekend. We wanted to find the right balance of creature…
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Summer 2023 Bioluminescence in Puget Sound: Best Dates
What does it take to see bioluminescence? If you’re looking for displays of glowing waves crashing into the beach, it’s probably best to head for…
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Winds of Change
We’ve been picking up the mileage on our training paddles, since SEVENTY48 is quickly approaching. We had plans that kept us from the water…
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Training Paddle: Double Fox
One of the things we didn’t really prepare ourselves for the first year we did SEVENTY48 was high-mileage days. That first year, we hardly…
Read MoreDash Point Pier to Dick Gilmur Public Access (& back)
We’ve had a slower start to our training season than normal. Our household tackled both the flu and COVID during the time we normally would…
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Summer 2022 Bioluminescence in Puget Sound: Best Dates
If you have not yet gotten out to view summer 2022 bioluminescence in Puget Sound, you still have several opportunities throughout the summer. If you…
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August 2021 Bioluminescence Update
If you have not yet gotten out to view the bioluminescence in Puget Sound this year, you still have several opportunities in August. If you…
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June & July 2021 Update: Bioluminescence in Puget Sound
Last summer, we noticed that various local kayaking Facebook groups had many threads with folks wondering how to view bioluminescence in Puget Sound. We’ve found…
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The Plan – WA360 2021
Plan is a strong word – with a race this long, it’s a little bit more of a choose-your-own-adventure. We have an ideal plan that…
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Bowtie on Bainbridge Day Two
This is our big day: for day two of Bowtie on Bainbridge Weekend, we’re circumnavigating Bainbridge Island. We planned for nearly 30 nmi, which…
Read MoreBowtie on Bainbridge: The Plan
What does it mean to put a “Bowtie on Bainbridge”? That doesn’t even make sense. Well, in our quest to circumnavigate the islands of…
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Camping at Hope Island
This past weekend, we thought it was time to practice our camp set-up for SEVENTY48 and WA360 by camping at Hope Island. We…
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Ramping Up to Race Ready
Around eight weeks from the start of the SEVENTY48 race every year, we really dig into our training plan and try to…
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Sunrise… Sunset… & Then Some
We Circumnavigated Vashon Island… Again On Saturday, we circumnavigated Vashon Island for the third time in less than a year. When we originally discussed how…
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The Largest Islands…
We had an ambitious plan. In our quest to circumnavigate all of the islands of Puget Sound, today would be the day that we…
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Our Paddle to Purdy
Early April is generally when we start ramping up our mileage, in preparation for our annual SEVENTY48 race. Our goal for this weekend was…
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What’s on Your Checklist?
When I was writing about bow & stern lines, I had a line in there that my wife deleted. I had said that I…
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The Return to Fox Island
If it’s not broke… One of our favorite training paddles is circumnavigating Fox Island. It is close to home. The launch site has parking. It…
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