Sailing Seattle
When the temperature rises around Seattle there is no place better to be than on the water. Sailing Seattle offers a fun, convenient, inexpensive and easy wat to get out on the Puget Sound. Sailing Seattle offers both 1.5 hour day cruises and two hour sunset cruises most days and is unique in they allow you to bring your own food and drink aboard for your enjoyment.
Once you set sail from Pier 56 you glide past the Seattle Great Wheel and head toward West Seattle’s Alki beach. Immediately you get that classic Seattle skyline made famous by many a television show. With the city as your back drop for the remainder of your sail there are plenty of photo ops at every turn. For the quintessential Seattle experience sit back and enjoy your view of white sails against blue skies.
If you want to feel like you have the sailboat all to yourself it is best to go in a bigger group so you can occupy a majority of the boa or go midweek or on an earlier sailing for less occupied sailings. The 1.5 hour day time cruise provides great views of the Olympic Sculpture Park, Alki, and downtown Seattle just to name a few of the sights you will see. Although we were not fortunate enough to see any wildlife our sail, I have heard they have seen everything from a pod of orcas to bald eagles.
If you want to experience something new for yourself, come up with a fun date or friend get together or if you have out of town guests you want to impress, either way an afternoon or evening with Seattle Sailing is the way to go. The ride was smooth, there was that very fleeting warm Summer breeze and on a clear day you will be able to catch some gorgeous glimpses of Mt. Rainier.
If you are feeling extra adventurous you might even try your hand at helping to lower the sails or steer the boat like Jasper did. However, once he had the opportunity to steer the boat he didn’t want to stop. I think I might just have a future captain on my hands!
website: https://sailingseattle.com
Located at Pier 56: 1201 Alaskan Way Seattle, WA 98101
COVID update: Currently sailing at 25% capacity, face masks required at time of check in and on their dock. All guests were respectful and stayed in their “area” of the boat during our sail.
