Renee Hanks is new to sailing, but eager to learn. Although she has some experience with wind sports through the sport of kiteboarding, her experience on sailboats is limited. Learning one step at time every time we go out on the water. She enjoys exploring the islands with Mats onContinueContinue Reading
Chuck and Janet have owned their Lopez house for 33 years. The saying being ” we bought a dock,and a house came with it.” Being on the water is a lifestyle for them which includes commercial fishing in Alaska, river running, cruising and day sailing. You will find Chuck outContinueContinue Reading
Rick began sailing with a trip to the San Juans in a 27’ Thunderbird; plywood sailboat in 1970. He and a friend left Shilshole Marina early in the morning and rounded Iceberg Point on LopezIsland about 20 hours later. That was a big adventure. Tracey learned to sail in an all-women’sContinueContinue Reading
Lyn and Katherine Sorensen both grew up in the Pacific Northwest. Katherine moved to the PNW at age 12 when her father retired from the air force and returned the family to Washington state where he grew up. Lyn’s ancestors (Weeks) homesteaded on Lopez in the 1800’s, which makes himContinueContinue Reading
Paul grew up sailing in the Texas Gulf near NASA and Kemah and later on Lake Michigan and then the Chesapeake Bay. He has also done some racing both classic wooden boats and J boats, including attending J School in Newport. Some of the boats we had growing up includedContinueContinue Reading
We retired to Lopez Island in 2019 from Bainbridge Island where we lived for 21 years. While on Bainbridge Island, we enjoyed enjoyed being members of Eagle Harbor Yacht Club. We also had some fun adventures on our own to the San Juan Islands and Gulf Islands.Pamela lived on LopezContinueContinue Reading
Steve and Becky met in Southern California where they grew up in neighboring towns not far from Newport Beach. Steve began sailing at age 8, his family purchased a Cal 25 called “Fiel Amigo” in 1972, and he remembers weekend day sailing out of the Balboa Yacht Club and annualContinueContinue Reading
Aaron loves to be in, on, or at the water’s edge. As a boy, he learned to sail on motorless small sailing vessels such as: Sunfish, Lasers and Hobie Cats on lakes in Northern Lower Michigan. As a young man, he graduated to crewing larger sailing monohulls in the earlyContinueContinue Reading
I grew up in Southern California around water but never owned a seaworthy boat . My first boat was a Zodiak which I bought to zip back and forth from Lopez to Friday Harbor when I was going after my prize catch, Amy. The Zodiak has moved on and AmyContinueContinue Reading
We both grew up around the water in Alameda, CA. We left it for 7 years when we moved to Dallas, TX, but were happy to return to the West coast when we moved to Lopez in 2021. Roman’s parents live on Center Island and so the connection to LopezContinueContinue Reading
We fell in love with Lopez when we first moved to the PNW from the East Coast. We bought ourLopez house in 2002 and we were never going back. As my kids were growing up we spentsummers on Lopez before cell phones and Wi-Fi. We crabbed and shrimped with ourContinueContinue Reading
Lopez ConnectionJohanna’s Lopez ties go back to her childhood. Her folks, Lynn & Marlys Waller,bought property on Lopez Sound in the mid 1960’s. The Waller kids grew up camping,canoeing, clamming and cutting firewood on Lopez. Once retired, Lynn and Marlys builta home on the property where they lived year-round forContinueContinue Reading
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