Dispatches: A Captivating Photo Essay Sailing the Puget Sound

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Relatively speaking, we were never far from civilization, but it didn’t feel that way. Living on a sailboat is like exploring another planet: awe-inspiring and isolated, cramped and freeing at the same time.

A three-day voyage in the Puget Sound marked our second excursion aboard TRUE, a bright red 44-foot Pearson Countess designed by world-renowned naval architect John Alden and captained by our friend, Ben Doerr of Sail Bainbridge. Departing from a small harbor on Bainbridge Island, Washington, we wove south through a maze of landmasses and channels under the prestigious, cloud-skirted silhouette of Mt. Rainier.

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As Ben taught us how to manage ropes and steer the 38,000-pound vessel, we spotted sea lions and jellyfish, eagles and porpoise, crab and fish. Each day we stopped at a secluded anchorage and rowed ashore in a small dinghy to stretch our legs on wooded trails. Ben is a singer and songwriter—he also helms the band St. Paul de Vence, an homage to his grandfather—so nights were filled with music, communal cooking, and card games.

Here, Andy Cochrane and Johnie Gall share dispatches from a sailboat in the Puget Sound, near Seattle, as the sailboat became a basecamp for their three-day adventure to the southern end of the waterway.

Sailing charters get a reputation as the domain of the rich and famous, but our three-day trip to the southern end of the Puget Sound and back was filled with enough night swimming, trail running, deck dancing and SUP wake surfing (it’s a thing, if you can pull it off) to make a convincing case that sailing is for everyone, especially those looking for a little tomfoolery.

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