Port of Anacortes to Celebrate 100 Years of Maritime History
Image: Picture from generations past of the Port of Anacortes. Photo Credit: Port of Anacortes. This year is expected to be an important one for the Port of Anacortes, which recently passed a budget to make improvements at its airport, marina, docks, and industrial facilities. But the bustling town on the northern tip of Fidalgo […]
Wallingford, Rudnick Open Ballard Trailers in Seattle
Image: Scott Wallingford during a relaxed stretch of the 2022 Race to Alaska. Photo Credit: Norris Comer. In early December, Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood welcomed a new tenant in its bustling maritime community—Ballard Trailers, offering a wide variety of metal and composite boat trailers for all types of boaters. Created through a collaboration with Scott Wallingford, […]
Weyn Wins 2025 RBAW Accolade For Pump-out Program
Image: The faithful NW Mobile Pump Out boat on duty at Blake Island, Washington. Many awards are given out to business leaders for what they have added to the community, but Paul Weyn, founder of Gig Harbor-based NW Mobile Pump Out, was recently lauded for what he has removed from his boating customers—namely their liquid […]
Boaters Struggle with Partial Closure of Salmon Bay Marina
Image: Views underneath the Salmon Bay Marina docks show aging, cracked timbers with poor connectivity to the pilings, as identified by the Port’s engineering teams. More than three months after receiving notices that most of their marina was to be permanently shut down for safety reasons, several of the remaining boat owners at the Salmon […]