meetings

Please join us in person this Friday May 19th at 7:00pm at the Puget Sound Yacht Club for our monthly club meeting and presentation by Scott and Donna Hansen who will share their experiences getting to and from our closest tropical destination.

Club members Scott and Donna Hansen will cover their last 4 winters on their yacht Celestial in Mexico. Their talk will have an emphasis on the options and tactics of sailing from the NW to warm Mexican waters – “the easier part,” and back again – “the harder part.”

Scott and Donna are blue water circumnavigators with over 150 thousand nautical miles sailed over the past 40 years.

• When: Friday May 19th at 7:00pm PST.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
• Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link

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!

Please join us in person this Friday April 21st at 7:00pm at the Puget Sound Yacht Club for our monthly club meeting and presentation by Lee Youngblood on the Coho Ho Ho Rally!

 

Coho Ho Ho Rally

Long term PSCC member Lee Youngblood has been involved with the Coho Ho Ho Rally from the very beginning.  He will talk about the Coho Rally to get to the Baha Rally. The passage to San Francisco can be difficult, so the Coho Rally provides seminars, raft-ups, field trips and rig surveys, an educational approach to help cruisers prepare and make the “Big Left Turn” for their first serious passage.

Lee has been involved with the Coho Ho Ho Rally since the beginning, when Doug Lombard returned from his first trip with Kelly and John Wanamaker in 2013 and said “We have to have a rally, to get to the rally!” Doug’s enthusiasm has led to years of Coho Rallies, with seminars, field trips, rig surveys, raft-ups and line cutting parties. Lee and Doug started in Angelia’s Dockside Solutions and quickly out-grew the space. With the support of Fisheries Supply, they now meet in their training room, and with the annual kick-off at the Center for Wooden Boats . Lee has worked behind the scenes, wrangling speakers and sponsors, chairs, food and photos. He gets shots of the participants, their boats, and helps produce a fleet directory.

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.

• When: Friday March 17th at 7:00pm PST.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
• Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting

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!

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
  • Google Maps directions
• 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!

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.

• When: Friday January 20th at 7:00pm PST.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
  Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting

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!

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.

• When: Friday November 18th 7:00pm PDT.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club
  2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
  Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting  | Zoom Passcode: 681536

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!

 

Join us in person this Friday for our October meeting – Puget Sound Cruising Club’s Princess Louisa Flotilla!  Club member Jeff Johnson and crew will be presenting on last summer’s flotilla to Princess Louisa Inlet. Four boats with several PSCC members organized a 16 day sailing trip to beautiful Princess Louisa Inlet in late June and early July 2022.  The flotilla was joined by several additional club boats during stops at 10 locations in British Columbia and Washington.  Jeff and crew will show photos and discuss some great sailing destinations!

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.

Join us for the September meeting, where we’ll resume in-person meetings for the first time since pre-covid! Club member Elsie Hulsizer will give a presentation on cruising the west coast of Vancouver Island. The meeting will be held at a new location (Puget Sound Yacht Club) and also broadcast to Zoom for those unable to attend in-person.

Whether you’re planning a circumnavigation of Vancouver Island or a two-week trip to Barkley Sound, this presentation will show you how to meet the challenges of wind, waves, fog and rocks in order to fully enjoy the region’s intriguing history, people, and scenery.

Elsie Hulsizer is the author of “Voyages to Windward: Sailing Adventures on the West Coast of Vancouver Island” and “Glaciers, Bears and Totems: Sailing in Search of the Real Southeast Alaska.” She and her husband Steve own an Annapolis 44 sloop and have cruised extensively in Northwest Waters including 7 trips to SE Alaska, two trips to Haida Gwaii and 20+ trips to the West Coast of Vancouver Island. In 1978, they sailed from Boston to Seattle via the Panama Canal and Hawaii in a 32ft Chesapeake 32 sloop. She has a master’s degree in oceanography and a certificate in fine art photography and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Wooden Boats.  Elsie will have her books available for purchase after the presentation.

• When: Friday September 16 7:00pm PST.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club,
  2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
  Google Maps directions
• Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting, Meeting ID: 864 9552 1818, Passcode: 544934 (Required)

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.

Steve and Judy Dauzenroth left Seattle in Code Blue, their Caliber 40 LRC, on September 20, 2012 for a 25,000+ mile trip across the South Pacific. They’ll share some of their favorite places and memorable moments over their eight year trip. They were in Scarborough Marina near Brisbane, Australia in early 2020 when Covid hit all over the world. It was difficult to renew visas for tourists so they opted to fly home and leave Code Blue in the marina. They never imagined it would last this long.

Finally Australia has opened up again. Steve is headed back to the boat in early April to get ready to continue the trip. He’ll be looking for crew to finish a circumnavigation since Judy has decided to give up the long passages for health reasons.

• When: Friday April 15 6:00pm Pacific Time.
• Where: Zoom meeting (virtual)
• Join Zoom Meeting, Meeting ID: 885 1440 5225, Passcode: 773479

Reminder: Club meetings have a suggested $5 donation to support club expenses, which you can send by Paypal or credit/debit card here. 

Join us for the March 18 club meeting on Zoom where club members Ginger and Peter Niemann of s/v Irene will share tales of their world-wide voyage in the northern hemisphere. They’ve recently been awarded the Cruising Club of America Blue Water Medal and the Ocean Cruising Club Vasey Vase.

Ginger and Peter sailed around the world aboard their ketch Irene (homeport Ballard).  They took an eastabout route in the Northern Hemisphere via the Northwest Passage, Europe and SE Asia. They left Ballard in 2016, completed the Northwest Passage in 2017 (the ice part) and then sailed the eastern seaboard of the US, crossed the North Atlantic and cruised the Baltic and Mediterranean seas.

COVID hit the world while they were in Turkey, and they decided to try to sail home directly and as quickly as possible via the Suez Canal, Indian Ocean and North Pacific (the germs part). They found themselves in the Red Sea in high summer (the fire part) and did indeed (despite surprises and misadventures) return home to the Salish Sea in August 2021. This is their story.

• When: March 18, 2022 @ 6pm PST
• Where: Zoom (virtual)
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Reminder: Club meetings have a suggested $5 donation to support club expenses, which you can send by Paypal or credit/debit card here.