cruises

Our November cruise to Bell Harbor corresponds to the evening the Seattle Christmas Ships with the Dickens Carolers will be on Elliott Bay… and you can join the parade on your boat, or just enjoy them from shore. How perfect is that?!?

Christmas Ships and Carolers:

The Christmas Ships 1st sailing will be 2-3:30 PM from Pier 55.

• They will sail by Bell Harbor between 2-2:30 and 3-3:30. So if you’re already in guest slip, you could just watch them go by from the pier.
• The Dickens Carolers will be performing 2:35-2:55 PM at the Olympic Sculpture Park (0.6 mile from Bell Harbor; easy sail or walk)
• The Christmas Ships 2nd sailing will be 8-9:30 with the same carolers, going to Salty’s at Alki Beach Park (only 1.6 nm from Bell Harbor, but … probably for most of us past cruiser’s midnight)

Bell Harbor:

PSCC has 10 slips reserved for 1 night (November 25). Margaret is the cruise leader (see the pscclist for her contact and to RSVP).

• You MUST CALL BELL HARBOR AND RESERVE ONE OF THE PSCC SLIPS IN YOUR NAME BY THIS SATURDAY the 11th.
  No exceptions; this is a very popular time to be there and they will fill up.
• Bell Harbor contact is Michael Cink, (206) 787-3951, Cink.M@PortSeattle.org

The Plan:

• Make a reservation, send me an email (RSVP required) to let me (Margaret) know:
  1) Name of your boat, # on board, cell phone if you’re coming by boat. If you’re coming by land, that’s great too, please just give me a heads up.
  2) what you’d like to bring to a potluck dinner that evening (optional, but it’s impossible to get a group reservation for dinner that night)
• Arrive when you like on Saturday afternoon
• Anyone wanting to walk together to Olympic Sculpture Park to hear carolers: meet on dock 1:45
• Boats wanting to join/follow the Christmas ships: meet outside the harbor entrance at 2 p.m.
• (Optional) potluck dinner on board/dock 6:30 PM. Please bring your own eating utensils etc.
• Sunday Brunch choices: Café Opla (Vietnamese) across street, Pike Place Market, or on your own
• Depart late Sunday morning.

This is going to be a great holiday event; come join your PSCC friends!

Please join the Puget Sound Cruising Club for our Pumpkin Cruise to Port Madison, October 28th and 29th.

Those arriving by boat can raft up in Port Madison on Saturday and there will be a potluck party with PMYC and a pumpkin carving contest from 5-7pm. Directions here. Prizes will be awarded for the best pumpkin.

SV Bardo will be cruise leader. Please RSVP to grg2009dvnprt@gmail.com if you plan on joining us for this cruise. Please monitor VHF Channel 69 and fly your club burgee.

Please join us by car or boat Saturday June 24th for this year’s Salmon Bake! As always, this popular event is free for members but RSVPs are requested by June 17th. Please RSVP with the number in your party to pscclist@groups.io to keep count so we can order enough salmon. We’d love to have non-member guests as well! Fee is $10 for non-members (or join the club for $50).

What:

Annual Salmon Bake and potluck. Club volunteers will bring grills and will be grilling salmon. This is a potluck so please bring a side to share. Also consider the following:

• Please RSVP to pscclist@groups.io
• Bring a side dish to share!
• Help set up or tear down.
• Bring a plate, utensils, and drinks if you can (we’ll have some plates and utensils).
• Bring folding chairs and a blanket.

Other activities – Saturday late morning hike to the bluff on the north end of Port Madison and Sunday potluck breakfast for the raft-up. Field games during the potluck.

When:

Saturday June 24th from 3pm to 7pm. Roughly, happy hour is from 4-5pm, salmon grilling 5-6, and cleanup 6-7pm. Some people will arrive before 3pm to help set up.

Where:

Hidden Cove Park on the north end of Bainbridge Island.

By car: Google Maps location for Hidden Cove. Parking available

By Boat: There will be a cruise and raft-up in Port Madison. Arrive Friday evening or Saturday before the grilling. We’ll anchor just south of Treasure Island. Hidden Cove Park is just to the South between the SYC outstation and the Port Madison Yacht Club docks. Fly your burgees and hail the raft on VHF 69.

This will be a joint cruising event with Sloop Tavern Yacht Club (STYC) and Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle (CYC) from May 27 – 29 to go to Mystery Bay State Park on Marrowstone Island. A few years ago, we did this with CYC Seattle. This year we will have three great clubs participating.

Some of the organized activities for this event are:

• Saturday, May 27: evening welcome happy hour
• Sunday, May 28:
  • Mystery Bay Goat farm tour
  • Nordland tractor parade
  • Marrowstone winery tour (transportation help needed)
  • Human powered craft race (tender, paddle board, kayak, canoe –
    almost anything without a sail or a motor is fair game). There may be
    prizes for the race.
  • Potluck BBQ
• Monday, May 29: open / departure day.

All boats can anchor and/or raft up or use a state park buoy. It is also possible to drive over for this event. We are looking for 1-2 vehicles to help with winery transport.

Friday night option Port Ludlow.

Please fly your PSCC burgee. If you are in more than one club, fly all your burgees. Please monitor VHF 69 for the cruise.

Cruise leader for this cruise is SV Bardo. If you have any questions, please contact Greg
via the PSCC contact form. Also, if you plan to go on this cruise, please let me know
via the contact form.

Here are details for next weekend’s 37th annual Circumlocution of Bainbridge Island race and raftup (April 29 – 30).

Race from West Point to Liberty Bay. Choose the northern route or the southern route. After crossing under the finish line (the power lines entering Liberty Bay), we’ll raft up in the Northeast of Liberty Bay. As always the trophy goes to the SECOND PLACE. See this year’s hilarious race rules written by Steve Hulsizer below. Thank you Steve!

Too many barnacles slowing you down? No problem! There’s always the Perseverance Award. The Perseverance Trophy is awarded to the boat that just won’t give up. You might miss the Horrors D’Hoover competition, but at least you persevered!

Finally, after the race, we’ll hold the much anticipated Horrors D’Hoover competition. Yes, bring your best horderves and you’ll be immortalized on the club Horrors D’Hoover Trophy!

Below are some pictures from last year’s cruise and this year’s race rules by Steve:

• Race Rules 2023 (PDF).
  

Raft-up at Poulsbo, April 2022

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.

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

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.

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.

PSCC presents the annual Tequila Race on Saturday September 24th. The race starts between 9am and 11:30am-ish at West Point buoy. The course continues south for a circumnavigation of Blake Island. See the Tequila Race Rules 2022 (PDF) and check the PSCC email list for details and questions.

Following the race, there will be a raft-up in Blakely Harbor with a potluck dinner and award ceremony Saturday evening. Weather is looking fairly decent so far.  Good luck!