Photos by Tag: sailboats

May 22nd, 2020

Summer’s eve Fidalgo Bay: 2011

Sailboats on Fidalgo Bay, August 2011, as evening sun reflects off of the stern of an oil tanker on Fidalgo Bay.

May 14th, 2020

Under the flight path

Migrating cormorants fly over a pair of sailboats on Fidalgo Bay, as viewed from Cap Sante.

August 18th, 2011

Sitting it out

Wednesday evening drew many crews for racing on Fidalgo Bay, but at least one sailboat decided to sit this one out.

April 10th, 2011

Old & new

A new view from an old vantage point. New in the foreground at Seafarers’ Memorial Park is the rock breakwater. In the background are sailboats, the shore of Guemes Island and the tip of Cap Sante. The location where this photo was taken will one day soon feature parking spots and a new stretch of […]

March 11th, 2009

Lake sailing

Maurice Fink and Joe Gleason are among 10 or 12 owners of the “Soling 1 meter,” a semi-scale remote control sailboat modeled after the Olympic sailboat. Fink (holding boat) and Gleason spent part of Wednesday afternoon at Heart Lake, but they said this is usually a Saturday activity. The 39-inch boat sports 600 square inches […]

August 15th, 2007

Summer sail

Wednesday evening was beautiful … a great night to sail on Fidalgo Bay. Wind was lacking, but everyone who gathered for the weekly race went home a winner.

July 8th, 2007

Racing to sailboats

A city parks and recreation department staffer races out to re-join young sailors after running one of the teens in to Cap Sante Boat Haven. Young sailing students applied their new skills on a windy afternoon that provided both challenges and thrills.

June 27th, 2007

Barely Baker

Students from an Anacortes Park and Recreation class sail toward Cap Sante, with a barely visible Mt. Baker looming on the horizon.

May 9th, 2007

Littles sail by

Small training sailboats from the Anacortes Parks and Recreation Department sail by Anacortes Marina.

June 5th, 2006

Minutes from home

Today’s photograph is uploaded from my laptop computer, where I have stored some of my favorite Fidalgo Bay photographs from a recent Anacortes Yacht Club sailing event. Mt. Baker’s been in and out of cloud cover in recent days, but the mountain was shining on this Wednesday evening.

September 22nd, 2005

Summer’s end

These sailors motored up Guemes Channel over the past weekend, making the most of remaining summer days. The shore of Guemes appears in the background.

August 4th, 2005

Big and small

It was interesting Wednesday evening to see a one-person sailboat glide across Fidalgo Bay with Mt. Baker and a massive oil tanker in the background. The tanker brought a shipment of crude oil to the Shell Refinery.

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