Woman Boater Inspiration

The Pink Boat Regatta began with a sailor, daughter, and scientist  wanting to do more. Ashley Bell had recently fallen in love with sailing  when she learned her mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer - for  the second time. Open to men and women! Races in Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma in 2019. Since it's inception, the Pink Boat Regatta has raised $464,000 for breast cancer research.  

What one woman can do: 

What is Knot  A Boat?

It is a 8’ BY 8’ bow of a fiberglass boat outfitted as a knot-tying  station. It offers a 3 dimensional  opportunity to learn and practice  tying the many knots that we as boaters need to or should use to make  our boating lives safer and easier but which we are often out of  practice with or have never learned.

Where did the idea for Knot A Boat come from?

It came from the creative imagination of the co-director/creator of  Northwest Women in Boating, Vivian Strolis, who needed a hands-on three  dimensional way of making knot tying stick. It took the focus of  Northwest Women in Boating on helping improve boating skills for greater  safety. It took the supportive community of boat-loving gals to adopt a  unique idea.

Where did Knot A Boat come from?

It came from ‘the depths of the Puget Sound’. Yep, creative Vivian  asked herself, “Where can we get a boat and someone to cut the end off  for us? It turned out that the Derelict Vessel Removal Program were the  perfect source. These are the folks who drag up derelict, sunken boats  from the depths and gather other abandoned boats from around the Sound.  They were so thrilled that someone actually wanted to take one of the  boats off their hands, or at least part of one, that they did the actual  cutting off of the bow to Vivian’s specifications.