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PSCC Annual Haul-out Auction

March 17, 2023 / Uncategorized

It’s time for the annual PSCC haul out and bottom paint auction!  Every boat needs a haul out and bottom paint from time-to-time.  Support your club and bid on this year’s gift certificate from CSR Marine.  Here are the details:

  • Free haul and block
  • Free pressure wash
  • Free lay days (3)
  • 20% off bottom paint labor and materials
  • Discounts applied up to 36 feet. Boats over 36 feet receive the maximum discount at 36′.

Auction rules:

  1. Minimum bid is $500
  2. All auction bids must be submitted by midnight Pacific time on 3/31/2023.
  3. Submit your bid to Andy at direction09@gmail.com. In the subject line of your bid please use “PSCC 2023 haul out auction bid”
  4. The winner will be notified in early April. Payment by check or PayPal must be received by PSCC within 10 days of notification of winning bid.
  5. In the event of two equal bids, the first one received shall be selected as the winner.
  6. This auction is open to all PSCC members. If you are not currently a member, you can join PSCC for a $50 lifetime membership.

Please share this far and wide.  All proceeds benefit PSCC.

PSCC appreciates the annual support from CSR Marine!

PSCC March Meeting: Recreational Boating Association of WA, “The Voice of Northwest Boating”

March 14, 2023 / meetings

Please join us in person Friday, March 17th at 7:00pm at the Puget Sound Yacht Club for our monthly club meeting and presentation. Andrea Pierantozzi, Vice President of the Recreational Boating Association of Washington (and avid PNW boater) will speak to us about RBAW’s history and what they’re working on to amplify the voice of the recreational boater and create boating opportunities. RBAW has been involved in NW boating for over 60 years, their first act was to buy Sucia Island in the SJI’s before it was developed as private vacation cabins – and donated it to the state to become a marine park to be enjoyed for generations. RBAW is a volunteer, membership organization.

The meeting will be held at our new location at the Puget Sound Yacht Club. Zoom is also available for those unable to attend in-person.

Meetings are held every third Friday of the month at the Puget Sound Yacht Club. The meeting is open to all, but we do ask for a $5 donation at the door to help pay for the venue and club expenses. Zoom attendees can make a donation by Paypal or credit/debit card here. We look forward to seeing you there!

PSCC Cruise to Brownsville (Mar 31 – Apr 2)

March 13, 2023 / cruises

The March cruise is to Brownsville Marina the weekend of Mar 31 – Apr 2 (moved back a week from original calendar due to marina availability).  Charlie O’Hern on SV Tangent is cruise leader and has reserved 6 slips so there should be plenty of room for everyone who is able to come. The guest moorage rate is $1.50/ft plus $4.00/day for power.

Although there is a good deli at the marina, Brownsville does not have a town with restaurants so we will be on our own for meals.  There is an activity shelter where we can have a potluck dinner on Saturday evening and perhaps a followup brunch Sunday morning.

On this weekend the ebb tides are in the afternoon, so to arrive via Rich Passage or Agate Pass the currents are most favorable around noon.

 

PSCC February Cruise to Port Orchard

February 19, 2023 / cruises

The February cruise will be to Port Orchard marina on February 25-26.

Scott and Donna (SV Celestial) are cruise leaders. Some notes from Scott: It looks like a very easy entrance and tie-up with picnic tables and a covered gathering pavilion right next to our boats. We are planning 5pm dinner at Brick House, 2 blocks away and potluck Sunday breakfast.

Please let Gabbie Garland at the marina know if you are coming (360-876-5535). The cost is $40 nightly for 40 ft and $1 a foot beyond 40 ft. If it is last minute, just come, as there lots of empty spaces right where we all will be and the marina is ok with tying up and then checking in.

Marina entrance 47° 32′ 40.212″ N 122° 38′ 22.158″ W

PSCC February Meeting: “Off the Beaten Trail” in Southeast Alaska

February 14, 2023 / meetings

Elsie and Steve Hulsizer, veterans of 7 trips to SE Alaska will share their favorite off-the-beaten-track destinations and show you how to cruise safely among glaciers, ice and bears, and why you should visit Alaskan Native villages.

Elsie Hulsizer is an author and photographer of the books Glaciers, Bears and Totems: Sailing in Search of the Real Southeast Alaska and Voyages to Windward, Sailing Adventures on Vancouver Island’s West Coast.

The meeting will be held at our new location at the Puget Sound Yacht Club.  Zoom is also available for those unable to attend in-person.

  • When: Friday February 17 at 7:00pm PST.
  • Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
  • Zoom Link: coming soon (check club email list)

Meetings are held every third Friday of the month at the Puget Sound Yacht Club.  The meeting is open to all, but we do ask for a $5 donation at the door to help pay for the venue and club expenses. Zoom attendees can make a donation by Paypal or credit/debit card here. We look forward to seeing you there!

PSCC January Meeting – Bouncing around the Western Atlantic by Ross and Kam

January 20, 2023 / meetings

Please join us in person Friday January 20th at 7:00pm at the Puget Sound Yacht Club for our monthly club meeting and presentation: Bouncing around the Western Atlantic! by Ross Mahon and Kam Boulle

Ross Mahon and Kam Boulle will recount some of their adventures while cruising the US East Coast, Bahamas, and beyond in their Malo 40, s/v Spindrift. They bought a boat, quit their jobs, rented out their houses and headed out on a great adventure, which of course didn’t turn out as planned. Come join us as they tell their story about sailing, visiting new places and cultures, and of course boat maintenance.

The meeting will be held at our new location at the Puget Sound Yacht Club. Zoom is also available for those unable to attend in-person.

Meetings are held every third Friday of the month at the Puget Sound Yacht Club. The meeting is open to all, but we do ask for a $5 donation at the door to help pay for the venue and club expenses. Zoom attendees can make a donation by Paypal or credit/debit card here. We look forward to seeing you there!

2023 Cruise Schedule

January 2, 2023 / Uncategorized

The 2023 cruising calendar for PSCC is now posted here. We have many exciting trips coming up in the new year! If you’re interested in being cruise leader for a cruise that doesn’t have one yet, please contact us.

Just a reminder that you can always find the current year’s cruising schedule on the homepage to the right of the upcoming events list, under the heading “2023 Cruising Calendar.”

New Year’s Cruise to Blakely Harbor

December 29, 2022 / cruises

The New Years Eve cruise to Blakely Harbor will be taking place this Saturday December 31 at Blakely Harbor (Bainbridge Island).

Shez and Michel aboard SV Red Hot will be there and any other boats arriving can use VHF 69 to communicate or contact Shez by email or phone in advance.

November Meeting: Hard Lessons Learned from Ocean Cruising by David Content & Roslyn Steward

November 15, 2022 / meetings

Ros and David will tell stories from dropping the anchor to the helicopter hoist and the practices they have learned to try to stay out of trouble.

The meeting will be held at our new location at the Puget Sound Yacht Club. Zoom is also available for those unable to attend in-person.

David and Roslyn started sailing together in 2011 on the 2nd Barefoot, a 43ft custom-built aluminum sloop, designed by Angelo Lavranos and built by Dearden Marine in Gibsons, British Columbia.

David has ocean-sailed more than 110,000 nm over the last 30 years in the North and South Pacific, including high latitude sailing in Chile, Fjiordland and Stewart Is. New Zealand and Tasmania, crossing Bass Strait six times.

Roslyn started sailing in Australia 40 years ago. She has ocean-sailed about 45,000nm over the last 30 years, in the North and South Pacific and North Atlantic. Roslyn sailed and lived aboard her cruising yacht in Darwin Australia and in Papua New Guinea for 6 years.

On this cruise they departed Shilshole in September 2011 sailing down the coast, through Mexico to the Galapagos. From there to the Austral Islands, then north to the Society Islands, then NW to Pukapuka in the northern Cook Islands. From there to American Samoa, Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand. They circumnavigated New Zealand, and sailed north to the islands each season, spending the annual cyclone seasons in Australia or New Zealand.

From March 2020 they were restricted to New Zealand with the onset of Covid, along with many international sailboats. In June this year David, with one crew, sailed directly from New Zealand to Port Angeles, with a 4-day refueling stop in Fiji, an approximately 7,200nm passage.

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Meetings are held every third Friday of the month at the Puget Sound Yacht Club. The meeting is open to all, but we do ask for a $5 donation at the door to help pay for the venue and club expenses. Zoom attendees can make a donation by Paypal or credit/debit card here. We look forward to seeing you there!

PSCC October Pumpkin Cruise to Port Madison

October 25, 2022 / cruises
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Join the Puget Sound Cruising Club for our October Pumpkin Cruise to Port Madison, October 29th and 30th.

We’ll raft up in Port Madison Saturday afternoon, then dinghy to the Port Madison Yacht Club for pumpkin carving and a potluck dinner. Bring your pumpkin and tools if you have them. If you can’t make the raft up, consider driving over for the pumpkin carving and potluck. We’d love to see you there! Directions here.

Members of the PMYC are invited to join as well. The plan is to start carving pumpkins at 4:30pm-ish and start dinner prep around 5:30pm-ish.

Sunday morning, Mike and Nita have graciously offered to host a potluck breakfast at their house again this year. We’ll walk a short distance to their house from the PMYC dock and arrive at 9:30am.

Monitor VHF Channel 69. First to arrive, put your hook down, fenders out, and fly your burgee.