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November 17th meeting at a new time (6pm) for sit down dinner together!

• When: Friday November 17th 2023 at 6:00pm PDT.
• Location: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103 (Google Maps directions)
• $10 admission only this meeting.

As your commodore, Sheri is hosting the party potluck style to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this talented group of sailors.

• Ham as the main dish.🐷
• Potluck for the side dishes. Consider some of our group is vegan.🥗 Please tell me your side dish when you RSVP.
• Of course there will be cake – Carrot and chocolate. 🍰Feel free to bring your own dessert if you’d rather.
• Beer and wine will be available.🍻🥂

This is a great time to bring new friends in to gather with us (recruiting event for sure) and see why we are the best cruising club in the region!

We will also have another family of sailors come and talk about their very recent adventure in Mexico for 4 years. More details on this to come.

I am grateful to hold the position of commodore and I look forward to celebrating PSCC with you.

Please RSVP to sv.pangea2022@gmail.com as soon as possible so I can buy enough ham.

Please join us on Friday October 20 at 7:00pm at the Puget Sound Yacht Club for our monthly club meeting with a presentation by Tor and Jess Bjorkland on their family’s thorough servicing/rebuilding of SV Discovery, interspersed with cruise highlights every summer: Salish Sea to Glacier Bay, AK.

• When: Friday October 20th 2023 at 7:00pm PDT.
• 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!

Please join us in person on Friday June 16th at 7:00pm at the Puget Sound Yacht Club for our monthly club meeting followed by a presentation by Mike Reese discussing all things marine canvas.

Quality marine canvas is an important part of our vessel’s equipment list, which can add beauty, protect expensive equipment, and help ensure safe and comfortable cruising. Unfortunately, it can also be expensive and difficult to replace with long lead-times and few suppliers from which to choose. Mike from SeaBound Canvas will be discussing steps cruisers can take to prolong our boat’s canvas, as well as material and design considerations when replacing or upgrading marine canvas.

Mike has spent decades in the marine industry, including owning SeaBound Canvas since 2016. He teaches a variety of subjects, including do-it-yourself marine canvas, boat electrical, solar power, and heating systems to boaters at area boat shows, and is an instructor for Skagit Valley College’s “Cruisers College” program.

• When: Friday June 16th at 7:00pm PDT.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
• Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link – Click Here

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 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.