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48° NorthAmericasEditor’s Letter: Halcyon Days Advertisement October 2026, the sailing community is going to miss you. November, we love you too, and you’ve got some things we’re really looking forward to. But dang.

10.29

48° NorthAmericasEverett’s Harbor Marine Changing Hands After Nearly 50 Years After nearly 50 years of serving the boating community of Everett and beyond, Harbor Marine founder Lauren Bivins is passing the baton to a new owner, Steve Carver, who plans to continue the legacy…

10.28

48° NorthAmericasRace Recap: J/105 North American Championship Top Class Competition, Top Class Camaraderie Randy Hecht’s Niuhi won their fourth J/105 North American Championship.

10.27

48° NorthAmericasInaugural Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta Coming to Seattle Coming up on November 13-15, for the first time, top collegiate sailors from around the country will gather in Seattle to race on local J/105s in the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta.

10.26

48° NorthAmericasDestinations: Company’s Coming, Where Do We Go? In our latest Destinations installment courtesy of our friends at SalishSeaPilot.com , we get tips on having guests aboard and where the best places are to take them when cruising in British…

10.23

48° NorthAmericasNecessary or Nice: Diesel Heaters Electric space heaters combined with cozy carpets do wonders for keeping your boat comfortably toasty and dry at the dock in the winter.

10.22

48° NorthAmericasBNSF Closing Salmon Bay Railroad Bridge for Maintenance For racing, cruising, and day sailors looking to exit the Hiram M. Chittenden Lock, please be advised of the following maintenance announcement that the Salmon Bay Railroad Bridge will be closed in…

10.21

48° NorthAmericasOctober Products News UPDATED: Spinlock Deckvest Vito Building on several years of research into buoyancy performance, the updated Spinlock VITO features a new revolutionary integrated flotation construction.

10.20

48° NorthAmericasVan Isle 360 Reports Strong Early Response to 2027 Black Wolf Edition The Van Isle 360 recently announced that the response to the 2027 Black Wolf Edition of the Pacific Northwest’s premier offshore and adventure race has been strong.

10.19

48° NorthAmericasRace Report: Moore 24 Nationals A huge fleet (including many PNW teams), lots of breeze, and friendly competition made the 50th anniversary Moore 24 Nationals in Santa Cruz one for the books.

10.16

A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay