Future Tides is a new media service covering maritime innovation and the future of the maritime community in Washington State and Pacific Northwest.
Intended for recreational boaters, professional mariners and all who share the region’s waterways, the Future Tides newsletter launched in October 2021.
Issues include original articles, digestible data and research prompted by reader’s questions. See past issues for examples and original articles are featured below. New website at futuretides.org coming soon.
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All Future Tides articles:
- Our old boats
- When safety boats go electric, small boaters benefit from the silence
- Major maritime stories unfolding
- Behind-the-scenes: How I’m building Future Tides
- Batteries and Bristol Bay: What the Future Tides community is reading
- Endurance rowers and paddlers prepare for the Northwest Passage
- On the radar: Dockworkers’ automation issue, cruise ships return to Seattle and wind farms off the Oregon Coast
- A Future Tides map: The maritime infrastructure of tomorrow
- Why they wing foil
- A Future Tides interview: Boating safety advocate Margaret Pommert
- Team Sail Like A Girl selling boat, not competing in R2AK this year
- After mishap, NOAA completes buoyancy engine tests for underwater glider
- Four small steps to boat safer this spring
- Seattle-based Vakaros marks milestones with second generation of GPS device
- Future Tides receives first grant to report about technology and safe boating
- NOAA’s active uncrewed underwater glider mission near Shilshole Bay
- No more NWICSA: A shift for college sailing in the region
- Pedal power: America’s Cup and R2AK advance cycling sailors
- A perspective on passenger-only ferries
- Report outlines technical details of King County Water Taxi expansion, detailed costs to come
- Book recs to gift boaters (or for you)
- Oregon’s undersea cables generate both collaboration and controversy
- New subsea fiber network underway on the Alaska peninsula
- Not there yet: The absence of autonomous ships in Washington waters
- Maritime sector funding, especially in Alaska, in newly signed infrastructure bill
- The Shilshole liveaboard community: ‘demand continues to escalate’
- USCG icebreaker Polar Star departing Seattle on Saturday for Antarctica
- Washington’s maritime workforce
- Keeping the Canadian Coast Guard busy: MV Zim Kingston’s ongoing disaster
- ‘It’s really different’: In the field with Maritime High School students
- Photos: Washington State’s new maritime high school
- Tuned in: Port of Seattle’s 2022 maritime budget briefing
- Spotted on the Sound: MarkSetBot
- Database: PNW maritime startups
- Sensing tsunamis now and in the future
- Funding for climate tech is surging, including opportunities on the water
- What if smoked salmon, WA pinot noir or hops were exported by cargo sailboat?
- A Future Tides interview: NOAA’s system update and the next era of electronic charts
Cara Kuhlman 