Contributor Kimball Livingston explores the blossoming of private teams and their impact on the youth sailing landscape.

If you are on a boat, that is the only boat you really care about, and you call it “the” boat. Whether skiff, seiner, or scow, it is “the” boat.

From mending wear to creating custom sails, their Ballard loft has outfitted Northwest boats since 1958. Schattauer Sails was founded by their father Franz, a master sail maker from Germany. "In the ...