Marine Sanitation & Supply – Waste Systems Galore
Image: The Seattle storefront of Marine Sanitation & Supply. There’s a dating app for people my age—they call it “Carbon Dating.” But veterans of a sufficient number of trips around the sun will remember the standards for marine toilets prior to the 1970s. There were none. Marine heads typically discharged directly overboard, using a hand […]
EP Carry’s Gen2 E-Outboard Propels Boaters Into Summer
Image: The new EP Carry Gen2 is easily installed on any small boat in just a few minutes. Photo credit: EP Carry Just in time for peak summer season, local electric-motor maker EP Carry has released its new Gen2 portable outboard for dinghies, tenders, kayaks, RIBs, and other small boats. Based in North Bend, WA, […]
Mercer Island Rowing Club Puts Boats on the Water
Image: The club is offering summer classes to bring rowing to the entire Mercer Island community. Photo credit: Heidi Mills After three years of development and many fundraising efforts, Mercer Island, WA, is about to launch its own rowing club. While the new Mercer Island Rowing Club (MIRC) was formed in 2024 and does not […]
Local Troll-Caught Albacore and King Salmon from Kris’s Fishes
It’s my pleasure to fire off this inaugural Fish Finder entry to Nautical Northwest. This new, regular department in the magazine will be devoted to elevating local, independent commercial fishing operations that are often direct-selling their seafood to the public. We may not be a hard commercial maritime outlet, per se, but seafood is a […]
‘Western Flyer’ returns to the Pacific Northwest
Image: ‘Western Flyer’ at dock during extra-low tides in Yaquina Bay in Newport, OR, on May 14, 2026. One of the world’s most famous fishing vessels, Western Flyer, has, once again, returned to its old stomping grounds in the Pacific Northwest. In March 1940, Nobel Prize-winning writer John Steinbeck and esteemed marine biologist Edward “Doc” […]
Nautical Northwest Writing Contest Timeline Extended
Ever since we of Nautical Northwest announced our writing and photography contest, I as editor have received a consistent buzz of readers expressing interest. To me, it seems like we’ve touched on something here in the regional zeitgeist, namely a proper outlet and platform for in-depth and high-level aquatic-facing writing and photography. Of course, this […]
Surfing the Wakes on Idaho Lakes
Image: A foiler on Hayden Lake performs behind the massive surge from an Axis wakeboat. Photo credit: Hayden Lake Marina Hawaii has ocean surfing, Florida has waterskiing, Oregon has windsurfing, but Idaho is home to one of the fastest-growing watersports. Rising in the land-locked state’s deep lakes—Coeur d’Alene Lake, Hayden Lake, Lake Pend Oreille, and […]
The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get
The legacy Idaho-based wood boatbuilder Stancraft is poised to make its mark on new horizons from electric propulsion to 50-footers and even commercial craft.
Sagstad Boatyard 1941 Original, Gyrfalcon
Photo credit: https://gyrfalcon88.com/ It might be confusing to look at your cell phone after you step aboard the 88’ Gyrfalcon. The screen will assert that it’s 2026, but the general vibe of your surroundings insists that it must be 1941. And yet there lingers yet another impression of times more than a century gone. Sagstad […]
Pacific Northwest Sweats and Shivers
A health-minded culture built around mobile and floating saunas and rejuvenating dips into our naturally chilly waters is entering the mainstream scene.