Maritime news and resources in and around Puget Sound

Woops! Captain Richard Rodriguez has this story at BitterEnd, provided (with pictures) by Chris Walker of Vancouver, BC:

Today, I was witness to an accident in False Creek where a very large sail boat ran up under the Burrard Bridge and caught her mast on the undersides of the bridge.

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Matt Schubert has this story in the Peninsula Daily News:
IF ONLY WE could party like it was 2009.
A year after one of the best saltwater salmon seasons in a decade, the North Olympic Peninsula finds itself mired in mediocrity.
From the coast all the way to Admiralty Inlet, fishing has simply been "OK," if not a [...]

KING 5 News has this story:
SEATTLE – A new report names the dirtiest beaches in Washington state. The Natural Resource Defense Council’s 20th annual beach water quality  <http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/sumwas.pdf> report says the dirtiest beaches (with percentage of samples exceeding state standards in 2009) are:

Freeland County Park/Holmes Harbor in Island County (20%)
Hollywood Beach in Clallam County (19%)
Bayview [...]

Patrick J. Sullivan has the story in the Port Townsend Leader:
[You won't see this scene much longer: the 50-car ferry Steilacoom II departing Keystone terminal. In September, it's going to be the 64-car ferry Chetzemoka departing Coupeville terminal. Photo by Patrick J. Sullivan]
The state has assigned a new name [...]

Mike McQuaide has this story in the Seattle Times:
[MIKE MCQUAIDE / SEATTLE TIMES photo: Alexis Ogden, of Marysville, works a puzzle on sunny Jetty Island.]
It’s a blindingly bright day under skies that couldn’t be more blue and that haven’t hosted anything resembling a cloud in days. And as she [...]

Vanessa Ho has the story at SeattlePI.com:
[Houseboats are shown on Seattle's Lake Union. Photo by Joshua Trujillo, Seattlepi.com]
In a city of lakes and bays, squabbles about water are inevitable. But as Seattle mulls over a hefty set of new shoreline rules, one of the most iconic waterfront symbols — [...]

The Seattle Times has this brief item:
The Washington State Transportation Commission will be surveying ferry riders in late July and early August about their travel, fare issues, the reservation system and general satisfaction with the ferry system.<
The Washington State Transportation Commission will be surveying ferry riders in late July and early August about their travel, [...]

Tom Banse has the story at KUOW:
The comeback of the bald eagle is one of the most celebrated success stories of modern conservation. But along the Pacific Northwest coast, the majestic eagles are marauders. Their increasing numbers are putting other bird populations at risk. For now, biologists are not inclined to intervene. The eagles’ prey [...]

Whitney Pipkin has this story in the Skagit Valley Herald:
Businesses along the Swinomish Channel didn’t wonder in the past whether the man-made waterway connecting Skagit and Padilla bays would be dredged every two or three years. It just was.
Scooping piles of sand and silt out of the century-old channel was a regularly funded project of [...]