meetings

Crew overboard rescue is an important concern to all Pacific NW boaters. Fortunately, today there are several techniques and resources to make overboard rescue easier. Margaret Pommert will discuss practical lessons learned from several overboard incidents, and demonstrate/discuss various pieces of MoB equipment.

Margaret has been doing sail training from Puget Sound to the East Coast where she worked with Navy Midshipmen. She has taught women Diesel Maintenance at Skagit Valley College and the Cruisers College program, and worked with the Sailing Foundation and the US Sailing International Offshore Safety at Sea hands-on training.

• When: November 15 2024 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!

• When: October 18 2024 at 7:00pm PDT.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
• Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting

Presenters:

• Sailing on the Adventuress and the Pacific Swift Tallships
  One of our young members will talk about his
  summer sailing on these classic schooners
• Cruising Princess Louisa Inlet, BC and San Juan’s
  A couple cruised to this idyllic location aboard their Catalina 36

 

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’s “calendar cycle” resumes with monthly meetings in September, and with that we also have a new Commodore to announce!  PSCC member Jim Shutt will be stepping into the Commodore role. Thanks Jim for volunteering!

September 20 meeting – Cruiser Panel (3 short presentations) + Q&A:

• When: September 20 2024 at 7:00pm PDT.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
• Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link: TBD

Presenters:

• Jim Shutt will present on his Gulf Islands trip, on SV Apropos, a Hans Christian 43T.
  Summary from Jim: “My summer cruise was 2 weeks in the Gulf Islands aboard our Hans Christian 43. We went as far north as Thetis Island and visited some of our favorite anchorages on Salt Spring, Galiano, North Pender as well as a few stops on Vancouver Island. U.S. ports included Port Townsend, Stuart Island, and San Juan Island.”
  

 

• John & Gerri of SV Charlie will present on their trip to Alaska in 2024. In their own words:
  “We left Ballard May 15th 2024 on S/V Charlie and returned to Ballard Sept 8th. We learned a lot about our boat, what works and what needs to be addressed and one very unexpected breakdown with cascading consequences.”
  
  

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• Chris & Julie of SV Morning Star, a Catalina 36, will present on their trip to Princess Louisa Inlet, BC and the San Juan Islands.
  
  

  

  

 

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!

We’ll be skipping the June 21 club meeting this month, but hope you can join us for the salmon bake cruise at Port Madison on June 29-30!

Full details on the salmon bake can be found on the email list – please RSVP there by Monday June 24.

The salmon bake will be at Hidden Cove Park on Bainbridge Island (Port Madison) on Saturday June 29th.

By boat:
We raft-up South of Treasure Island, in Port Madison, on Bainbridge Island and dinghy in to Hidden Cove Park. From the water, the park is between the Seattle Yacht Club outstation and the Port Madison Yacht Club docks. If you need a ride, someone with a dinghy will help. Call on VHF 16 or 69 We will be rafting up for those comfortable with it. We try to get a spot towards the south end of SYC. Some of us may be there Friday night and stay through Sunday. We’re going to have pot luck breakfast at 9:30 on both Saturday and Sunday.

By car:
The park is reserved Saturday from 3 to 7 pm. Show up anytime you want. We will start setting up from 3 to 4; happy hour will be 4 to 5, dinner will be 5 to 6 pm and clean up 6 to 7 pm. Any one traveling by car or truck to this event and doesn’t mind picking up something let me know.

 

 

Come hear the details from newlyweds Daniel and Rebecca Lewis of their journey aboard Gypsy a 1979 36 foot Islander Freeport, designed by Bob Perry. It has a fin keel and a skeg hung rudder.

• When: May 17 2024 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!

Know Before You Go: Using Networked Ocean Observing Data to Plan a Safe Trip

Join us for the April 19 PSCC meeting where Rachel Wold will be presenting on the NVS online portal which helps plan your marine passages with charts and weather information.

 Speaker Bio: Rachel Wold has taught navigation, participated in USCG Auxiliary safety cruises, and piloted boats through the Inside Passage. She works in ocean science at the UW Applied Physics Lab leading cruises to monitor water quality. Combining her boating and science backgrounds, she is currently Outreach Chair for the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS), demonstrating the NANOOS Boaters App to recreational boaters and collecting feedback to enhance usability.

NVS Application Details: Weather and sea surface conditions in the Pacific Northwest are highly variable so mariners need accurate and up to date information when planning their next trip on the water. The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS), part of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), provides these near-real time observations and forecasts. The NANOOS Visualization System (NVS) is a free online portal with applications developed for the maritime community.

Learn how to use the NVS Boaters App’s networked ocean observing data and other tools like digital NOAA nautical charts, routing capabilities and marina information to safely navigate our waters.

• When: April 19 2024 at 7:00pm PDT.
• Where: Puget Sound Yacht Club | 2321 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98103
• Google Maps directions
• Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting
• Jeff (SV Boog) will be running this 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!

A family of five set out on a custom KHSD45 named GenM for a fantastic year or two of Mexico adventure in 2019. Then Covid happened and they stayed four years. Join us for our March meeting and hear all about their cruising adventures in Mexico.

• When: March 15 2024 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!

Jim and Barbara Cole own Complexity, a 36-foot Halberg Rassy. They sailed away from Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle on 21 June 2008 and have since been exploring the world from their boat. Complexity is enjoying a well deserved winter rest in a dry berth in Malta while they visit family and friends in the USA.

Barbara and Jim’s last PSCC presentation was about their passage from Southeast Asia to the Med via the Red Sea in 2020. They thought major challenges would be storms in the Indian Ocean, Somali pirates, uncharted reefs in the Red Sea, and crew relations on a tiny boat for such a long time. Instead, the biggest challenge was being “stranded at sea” for 78 days after all international borders along their route closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the PSCC meeting on 16 February 2024 Barbara and Jim will make a presentation about the next chapter of their cruising life. They spent the past three sailing seasons living and cruising in the eastern Med including Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Italy, and Malta. They explored ashore from their boat in all of those countries plus England, Scotland, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, North. Macedonia, and Kosovo.

• When: February 16 2024 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!

On January 19th the participants of the 2nd annual PSCC flotilla will be presenting the exploits of our 3 week trip from Seattle to Barkley Sound last summer. This was a big adventure for some of us, as it involved going out into the big ocean! Join us to see how it went, and maybe you will want to join us on the next flotilla!

• When: Friday January 19 2024 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!

Join us for the PSCC monthly meeting on December 15th for a talk by Captain Tuuli Messer-Bookman.

Capt. Tuuli Messer-Bookman grew up aboard wooden sailboats in picturesque Sausalito, California. Her parents, both teachers, lived aboard for over thirty years. In 1986, Tuuli graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. After several years of working as a ship’s officer aboard commercial cargo ships, she earned her U.S. Coast Guard Unlimited Tonnage Oceans Master’s license. She has sailed over 300,000 sea miles as a ship’s officer. She returned shoreside and earned her law degree at the University of San Francisco, School of Law and is a (non-active) member of the California State Bar. After law school she started teaching at California Maritime Academy, where she taught all aspects of navigation and was the lead instructor for U.S. Coast Guard license exam preparation for the Academy’s senior cadets. She was also a certified assessor for navigational watchstanding in the Academy’s state-of-the-art full-mission ship simulator. After 23 years at Cal Maritime, she retired in 2018 and moved to Gig Harbor, WA with her husband Barry.

She writes for various maritime publications and is the author of three books: Maritime Casualties: Causes and Consequences, the Master’s Handbook on Ship’s Business, 3rd ed. and Close Quarters: A Woman’s Guide to Living and Working in Masculine Environments. She has worked as a maritime consultant and expert witness on over 100 cases since 1995 and has testified on maritime matters in both state and federal courts. Capt. Messer-Bookman is a member of the Nautical Institute, the Propeller Club, the Navy League, the U.S. Power Squadron, and is the Education co-chair at Tacoma Yacht Club. She also teaches the 100 Ton course at Compass Courses in Edmonds, WA. Capt. Messer-Bookman and her husband enjoy boating aboard their trawler Gooso, playing with their two dogs, and fixing up neat old things together.

• When: Friday December 15 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!

 

Sheri shared photos from the December meeting which had a surprise visit by Santa!: