Bruce’s Briefs

If you enjoyed Winter Vashon last month, you’re going to love Duwamish Head. At least there won’t be as much rain, but it will be cold. The official forecast says …

RTC (Round the County Race) is probably the best middle distance race there is in the Pacific Northwest and for a number of reasons. For one, it’s held a very …

 Ed. Note: Bruce Hedrick may have retired from Northwest Yachting, but we’re lucky enough to get some reports in from his new adventures. He’s navigating the Santa Cruz 50 Allure …

It looks like the weather gods aren’t quite done with Team EP. After a lovely day of reaching in a moderate WSW breeze and sailing at a consistent 8-9 knots, …

Ed. Note: Sorry, R2AK and Bruce Hedrick fans, the web master was out of wifi/cell range the last 48 hours and the following weren’t posted as promptly as they should …

A lot of us were surprised at just how fast some of the boats got to Victoria on Thursday in just about perfect conditions. Today will be distinctly different as …

Ed. Note, the inaugural Race to Alaska (R2AK) is for non-motorized boats. The first leg, tomorrow, is from Port Townsend to Victoria. On Sunday the fleet starts out for Ketchikan, …

Swiftsure 2015: Keep your fingers crossed! Every once and a long while we have conditions that should give us a great race. Those conditions can be summed up in one …

The year is flying by and with not much on the calendar for this weekend; we’ll just look at the big picture of weather and sneak a peek at the …

Hooray, Hooray, it’s the 8th of May 2015 Wow! What a week! Hail, rain, breeze, then no breeze and COLD on Tuesday to 75° today and 80° tomorrow with the …

As they say, you should have been here yesterday. It looks like the run of great sailing weather we’ve had will finally end this weekend which is unfortunate because it’s …

We have had so much incredible sailing this spring, I just keep waiting for something bad to happen. Well, I don’t think it will be this weekend even though the …