Serving the Independent Cruising Community since 1973
Sorry No July or August PSCC Meetings or Raft-ups Planned - we are off cruising!
Look for a PSCC Burgee, and you are sure to find a boat and crew you'd enjoy dinner with! Create your own raft-ups and potlucks, and you will have meet-up stories for the Fall.
Sept. 1-3, 2018 PSCC Labor Day Raft-up in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island
Join us in the San Juans for a fine, warm summer raft-up in protected Garrison Bay. Back when the windblown Americans were living in tents and chasing pigs over by Cattle Pass, the Brits were snipping their roses and sipping their tea in Garrison Bay. Join us if you can, there is plenty of space to anchor in shallow water, we are sure to have some good potluck meals and a fine time. Relax. There are no sign-ups, no one to rsvp, so just show up and surprise us, a fun way to finish off the summer cruising season.
Sheryl and Mike, the new commodore, will be at Garrison Bay for Labor Day, and Mike reports "The activities available at Garrison Bay are: Hiking, Fishing, Crabbing, Touring English Camp, a National Park, and Westcott Bay Shellfish Co., which is accessible by hiking trail or dinghy. The anchorage is protected, has good holding, and very large." Join us on your way home from your summer cruising! See you in September. . .
PSCC Meeting September 21, 2018 Friday 7:30pm at North Seattle College
Behan and Jamie Gifford, have sailed more than 50,000 nautical miles, cruising around the world, with their three children, Niall, Mairen, and Siobhan. Leaving from the PNW in 2008, aboard their Stevens 47, s/v Totem, they've visited 48 countries and territories, from Mexico to Martinique.
Behan, a UW graduate with a career in consulting, marketing and advertising, chronicled her families adventures at www.sailingtotem.com, and with cruising families wrote Voyaging with Kids, a guide to family life afloat. Jamie Gifford, a recovering racing sailor and experienced offshore sail designer, has returned to work as a sailmaker and rigger for offshore and regional sailors. Behan and Jamie provide coaching services, to mentor hopeful cruisers towards a successful life afloat.
While you may have seen the Giffords on Good Morning America, or at another event, for the Puget Sound Cruising Club, Behan will talk about Hidden Treasures. She'll talk about positive experiences that occurred in unexpected ways or places along their route. She will have plenty of pictures and experiences to share with the Puget Sound Cruising Club. Everyone is welcome at our meetings and events, so don't miss this first Fall meeting!
See Events page for future meetings and cruises.
PSCC Club Meetings are held at North Seattle College, 7:30pm, on the third Friday of most months. We meet in the Library Building (LB) lower Concert Hall, Room #LB1142, with tiered seating and better audio visuals. Access is off College Way North at N 97th Street.
A map to the campus, and the Library Building in which we meet is located on the images below. You can also check out the
NSC Map Site.
North Seattle College is West of Interstate-5, between Northgate and 85th, just 4 miles north of downtown Seattle. If you are coming to the college from the 520 or I-90 bridges, you will be taking Interstate-5 northbound.
Park in the West Lot, between 95th and 97th, North West of the Library building.
The room we meet in is shown in red below:
