This year’s Anacortes Boat Parade is sure to be well atortestended.  For the past two years the boat parade was cancelled due to high wind so boatersare anxious to cruise up and down Guemes Channel showing off the lighted and decorated boats.  The Anacortes boat parade will start at 5 PM, and the weather forecast looks [...]

Anacortes, WA is the boating capital of the NW, and Anacortes  will be hosting an additional boating event in the summer of 2010.
Thanks to the great efforts by the Port of Anacortes’ and the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, The Port of Anacortes Cap Sante Boat Haven will host Latitudes & Attitudes, in August.
 
 

It’s a boating celebration [...]

 
Bob Hyde, Port of Anacortes Executive Director, will speak next Tues., Feb. 3, 10 a.m., at the Newcomers’ Plus meeting held at the Anacortes Public Library. 
 
Bob gave a presentation at the Jean Groesbeck & Associates Anacortes Real Estate Expo last Feb. to a standing room only crowd, and many of us have been wanting to hear [...]

 
La Conner, WA along with Anacortes make up the boating capital of the Northwest.
Now La Conner has a new fire boat according to an article on goskagit.com
The La Conner fire department is made up of volunteers.  Their new tool is a 19-foot $124,000 inflatable fire boat which they tested this weekend in the Swinomish Channel.
Boat fires can spread rapidly [...]

New regulations have been proposed by the state Department of Ecology to require boatyards to filter runoff water that results from working on boats.  The goal is to reduce the amount of pollutants, entering the marine environment.  For example, copper paint ships can wind up in Puget sound through run off when boats are pressure washed.  A federal study [...]