A small cabin day boat moving through calm foggy water off a fir-covered island.

San Juan Islands · Washington

Turn Point

Day boats from a working harbor. No sunset package. No champagne ritual. Just a hull, a chart, and the day.

Harbor Friday Hbr
First lines off 08:00
Season Apr to Oct
Skipper On call

The company

Four boats. One harbor.

We keep a small yard in Friday Harbor and send people into the San Juans the way locals go: early, with a paper chart, and no itinerary that needs a toast.

The water here is cold and close. Islands sit near enough that a single day is a real voyage. You pick a boat. We handle fuel, lines, and whether the weather is lying.

Wet teak deck, a bronze cleat, and a coil of rain-beaded line.
Deck, after last night’s rain

The yard

What we send out

Small enough to nose into a quiet rockpile. Big enough for a cooler and the people you actually like.

Clew, a small open cream runabout tied to a wooden pier.

Clew

Open 22-foot runabout. Six people, a cooler, and any cove you can see from the breakwater.

Length
22 ft
People
6
Day
$390
Osprey, a modest cabin boat tied to a working wooden dock.

Osprey

Classic cabin. A dry wheelhouse when the weather turns. The boat we take our own families on.

Length
26 ft
People
6
Day
$560
Narrows, a small cabin cruiser moving through fog.

Narrows

More deck, more people, still short enough to tuck behind a point when the fetch builds.

Length
28 ft
People
8
Day
$740
Afterglow returning toward harbor under cool evening light.

Afterglow

Leave at four. Come home when the nav lights look better than the bars on Spring Street.

Length
24 ft
People
6
Day
$510

On the water

How a day runs

01 · Morning

Cast off

Meet at the visitor dock. We walk the boat with you: fuel, radio, where the crab pots sit. Lines off by eight if you want the water to yourself.

Varnished wheelhouse with a compass, worn wheel, and rain on the glass.
02 · Midday

Find a cove

Reid Harbor. Prevost. A nameless notch on Lopez. Eat on the engine box. Swim if you are braver than the water.

A quiet island cove with kelp, rock, and a small boat at anchor.
03 · Evening

Come home

Back before dark, or later if you took Afterglow. We take the lines. You keep the day.

A day boat returning to harbor at dusk with navigation lights on.

Yard rules

What is on the boat

Fuel for the islands

A local day is included. If you want to stretch for Sucia, we top you up and settle the difference.

A skipper if you want one

Two hundred eighty more. Required if no one aboard can handle current, ferry wake, and a 22 to 28 foot boat.

Chart, VHF, wool blanket

Paper chart, working radio, PFDs that fit. July still lies up here. Bring lunch. We do not stock a bar.

We cancel for weather

If the strait is ugly we say so the night before and move you. Forty-eight hours for a change of mind.

Harbor copy

Request a day

We answer the same afternoon. If the weather is a bad idea, we will tell you before we take your date.

This sends a slip to the yard. We confirm by evening.

Slip received

We have your date. Someone from the dock will write you this afternoon.