Maritime news and resources in and around Puget Sound

Deborah Bach has this item at Three Sheets Northwest:
[Photos courtesy of Whitehall Spirit Rowing Club]
The Whitehall Spirit Rowing Club officially launches today in Victoria, B.C.
A Victoria rowboat company is expanding in a novel way, launching what it says is the first open water rowing club in the area.
Whitehall Rowing [...]

Thanks to Deborah Bach at Three Sheets Northwest for pointing out this article in the Peninsula Daily News:
PORT ANGELES — Layoffs at boatbuilder Platypus Marine that started in February have reached 50 percent of the work force, leaving about 30 people without a paycheck, marketing and sales manager Charlie Crane said.
It’s another in a series [...]

Deborah Bach has this, from the Vancouver Sun, over at Three Sheets Northwest:
VICTORIA — A shipwrecked American sailor was plucked off the rugged shores of the west coast of Vancouver Island Wednesday ending a five-day wilderness ordeal eating nothing but lichen.
Keith Carver, 56, of Tucson, Ariz., said he doesn’t think he would have lasted much [...]

[This item appears over at US Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad W. Allen’s blog, iCommandant. —Tim]
Guardians, We released the following message today complimenting all those involved with the planning and support for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver:
SUBJ: BRAVO ZULU ? OPERATION PODIUM
1. THANK YOU FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN SUPPORT OF [...]

Paul Gottlieb has this story in the Peninsula Daily News:
NEAH BAY — The 712-foot container ship Horizon Tacoma was expected to reach the Port of Tacoma by 9 p.m. Wednesday, under tow by Neah Bay’s emergency response tug, the Hunter, and its companion vessel, the Garth Foss, after smoke was noticed late Tuesday night in [...]

West Seattle Blog has this item:
So much else was going on this afternoon, we never got a chance to go into full whale-watching-sound-the-alert mode, but thanks to Eve for sending a photo as proof (and yes, we know it’s fuzzy, but hey, it’s A WHALE!): We’ve had several reports of a gray whale spotted in [...]

Deborah Bach has the story at Three Sheets Northwest:

Photo courtesy of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Bob Beckman, executive director of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance’s threat to sue five boatyards has sparked an intense reaction among boaters and environmentalists. Three Sheets Northwest, which broke the story last month, takes a deeper [...]

Deborah Bach has this at Three Sheets Northwest:
The state Department of Ecology was advising boaters to steer clear of a diesel fuel spill Wednesday near Bellingham.
The spill, which occurred off the shore of Boulevard Park in Bellingham Bay, was reported shortly before 1 p.m. by kayakers in the area. A thin, silvery sheen about a [...]

Liam Moriarty has this item at KPLU-FM:
The public should be given more information about sea lice outbreaks at coastal salmon farms in British Columbia. That’s the ruling from the province’s open-records agency.
Sea lice are tiny parasites that can kill baby salmon. And while they exist in the wild, they’re more likely to thrive in the [...]