Hanse 460
The Hanse 460 sailboat didn’t come out this year, but it did earn a suite of industry awards, including European Yacht of the Year in 2022 and Sail magazine’s top 10 best boats in 2023. At the time of this writing, there is a 2025-built hull for sale locally at a post-Seattle Boat Show special […]
Pride of the PNW – Launchings and Refits
We at Nautical Northwest magazine proudly celebrate the vision, guts, and hard work of our region’s boatbuilding community with Pride of the PNW, which will be dedicated to recent, notable new launchings and refits. By no means a comprehensive listing, we offer these inspiring dreams-turned-boats as a sampling across our marine sectors: superyachts to commercial […]
The Way of the Captain by David Kilmer – Krakauer’s Eiger Dreams of Skippering meets Self Help
Friend of the magazine David Kilmer is a lifelong recreational boat captain, notably of the iconic Sizzler sailboat of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He is also a prolific writer and published book author. When I got a chance to check out an advanced reader copy of his newest work, The Way of the Captain (Signalman […]
Aspen C128 – New Flagship for Pacific Northwest Builder
Photo courtesy of Aspen Power Catamarans. I had the once-in-a-lifetime privilege to cruise the rugged West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, from Victoria to Nootka Sound last summer. The approximately 10-day trip was undertaken by the intrepid Aspen Power Catamarans owners’ group as their annual cruise. To my knowledge, this is the only owner’s […]
Agatha Christie Meets Deadliest Catch – Death in Dutch Harbor by D. MacNeil Parker
Image credit: © D. MacNeill Parker Local author with commercial fishing and journalism background debuts a satisfying murder mystery for both beach and wheelhouse reading. I met author D. MacNeill Parker at the annual Fishermen’s Fall Festival back in September, 2025. She looked at me with a big smile from her exhibitor table and lured […]
Pride of the PNW – Launchings and Refits
Image courtesy of Delta Marine We at Nautical Northwest magazine proudly celebrate the vision, guts, and hard work of our region’s boatbuilding community with Pride of the PNW, which will be dedicated to recent, notable new launchings and refits. By no means a comprehensive listing, we offer these inspiring dreams-turned-boats as a sampling across our […]
Maritime253 – Tacoma Tide Flats Education Breakthrough
I’m very pleased to welcome you, dear reader, to the first iteration of my column, People Power, dedicated to developments in the Pacific Northwest’s marine workforce. While this topic may sound wonky to some, I’ve been in the game as a working Cascadian marine journalist for about a decade now and the consternation about the […]
Who is Todd Feinroth?
Here we stand, dear reader, in the opening month of the good year 2026. Perhaps mysterious to you, a certain Todd Feinroth is listed as the owner and publisher of this new magazine in your hands. Maybe you’re at the Seattle Boat Show fresh from the magazine’s booth that you visited out of idle curiosity. […]