
PORT TOWNSEND HARBOR, JULY 4, 703 
YACHTING IN THE NORTHWEST 
Where Fast-Sailing Craft and Their Masters Rival the Best 
Product and Ability of the East 
BY F. M. KELLY 
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY J. G. MC CURDY 
TERY young in the 
| Northwest, and in 
===) yachting especially; 
| for it is the most ex- 
| pensive of all play, 
2A| with the possible 
=| exception of horse 

leisure as well as 
considerable money to follow. For our 
youth in play there are reasons. What 
was this vast territory bordering on the 
North Pacific the half of a century ago? 
Inland a wilderness of mountains and 
valleys known only to the fur traders; 
coastwise, a labyrinth of waterways cut 
only by the keels of the traders’ craft and 
the sliding dugouts of the aborigine. 
Scarcely dreamed of were the vast potenti- 
alities of this immense territory, an empire 
in itself. To it came the restless folk of the 
East, who left the broken ground of their 
fathers, seeking to break the newest lands 
beyond the great divide for the weal of the 
world. Their axes swinging. thev tonrled 
the ojant Deuelas and the cedar: and where 
these had stood were reared the walls of 
the homesteads. Labor, most forceful of 
all influences, made the West, as it has 
made, and will continue to make, all places. 
Our swift waters were harnessed, the 
forests cut into lumber, and vessels built 
to traffic it in the marts of the world; from 
the sea, the yearly harvest was gathered to 
feed the stranger afar off; while from its 
deep storehouses the earth was forced to 
gorge its coal, its base and precious metals. 
The result of faith and energy is worldly 
success, which in most cases is synonymous 
with wealth. Having attained it, the next 
best thing is toput wealth togoodadvantage; 
in other words, to enjoy it. A good medium 
is clean sport. Of such is yachting; and, 
then, what a fascinating sport it is. 
As we know, great strides were made in 
winning the land and the sea in a brief 
space of time. As it was with regard to 
work, so it has been with play. Twenty 
years ago there were a number of boats 
afloat in British Columbia and Washington 
waters. These boats were styled yachts. 
To call them such was gross flattery; for 
the term could have heen arnlied with as 
reasonable coancistency ta a Dutch aalint. 
or even a catamaran. A vacht sienifies a 
