Landings

Ron Fearn | February 9, 2009

I’ve landed in many places up this way  (Egmont area)  and usually in currents.  One of the trickiest is Earles Cove Barge Terminal at Earles Cove.   When the current marches up and down Agamenenon Channel,  it really makes some landings tough.  You also have the BC Ferry on one side and the 200′ coastal frieghter [...]

Working the Estuary Tides

Alan Haig-Brown | February 9, 2009

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For mariners working inshore waters, tides can be either friend or foe. A fair tide can add speed or a falling tide can cripple a grounded vessel. In the estuary of the Snohomish River at Everett Washington, the tides are more than all that, they are essential to the work of moving [...]