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Many Seattle Yacht Club members cruise the waters of the Pacific Northwest in powerboats.  Whether touring the Club’s 10 Outstations, located from Gig Harbor in the south to Cortes Bay in the north, or exploring the fresh water lakes, our members tend to enjoy their time on the water. SYC has a number of interesting and exciting events for members with powerboats. These include formal events with fun interactive themes, local and long-range cruises from Puget Sound to the Canadian Gulf Islands, and monthly dinners with exciting and informative speakers. Our monthly club dinners include topics about boating in the Northwest and adventures from around the world. These dinner are also a fun way to meet with fellow Club members and share boating experiences.

Seattle Yacht Club also hosts Navigational Rallies (aka Predicted Log Racing) around Puget Sound. These navigational contests are a great opportunity for members to improve their knowledge of their boat and skills of predicting the boat’s performance around a designated course.

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SYC is recognized among the leading yacht clubs of the world with a renowned comprehensive junior sailing program, in which the Junior Race Team is an integral part.  Our Junior Race Team draws upon a broad base of young sailors (open to the public) primarily from the SYC Summer Sailing School, SYC’s Northwest Interscholastic High School Sailing Team (HS Sailing), and community outreach programs.  The SYC Junior Race Team and HS Sailing provide youths, from ages 8 to 18, the opportunity to reach for competitive success at all levels while developing athletic skills, leadership, sportsmanship and a lifelong love for boating.  SYC has given rise to numerous generations of successful Pacific Northwest sailors, including multiple Olympic champions.  The SYC Race Team continues the Club’s legacy of achievement, representing SYC in local, regional, national and international competitions.

Race Team Mission

Progress juniors from participation to development to the highest levels of youth racing achievement.

• Provide a fun and supportive environment for junior racers of all abilities
• Provide coaches exceptional in their sailing accomplishments and their abilities to train and inspire our racers
• Maintain facilities and equipment equal or superior to leading yacht clubs around the world
• Promote interest and participation in sailing and racing with an active, adaptive outreach program
• Prepare racers for Collegiate Sailing providing an opportunity to leverage individual racers’ sailing skills and racing achievements in the college application process
• Develop  a lifelong interest and appreciation of sailing and racing in all Race Team members while promoting SYC junior membership in a family oriented, supportive environment

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Cameron has been the SYC Jr Race Team coach since 2011. Originally from Upstate NY, Cam has lived on both coasts, but has come to call the NW home.

Cam has been a sailing coach for the better part of 20 years. He has worked for various yacht clubs and sailing programs in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle. 

The SYC Jr Race Team does most of its year-round training on Shilshole Bay (Puget Sound), however Cam and the team travel all over the country competing in over 25 regattas every year. A busy training and regatta schedule is what makes the SYC Jr sailors the best in the North West!

The team has found lots of success under Coach Cam with SYC sailors winning national championships, qualifying for international regattas, and dominating the NW Youth Racing Circuit. It’s exciting and fun to work with such committed, talented, and hard working Jr sailors representing the club. 

2017 was a big year for the team and the sailing department! They were honored to receive the Captain Joe Prosser Award, from US Sailing, for excellence in sailing instruction. The Jr sailors list of accomplishments is far too long to list here, so please stop Cam in the hallway or on the dock to hear about it all! Or join them at the SYC Jr sailing awards held every January, to meet the team, celebrate an amazing year, and help them kick off the successful season ahead. Go SYC!

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Joining SYC

Seattle Yacht Club welcomes applications for membership from Northwest boaters ages 10+ who would like to join our active community.

Members of the Club are entitled to use our Portage Bay Clubhouse with casual and fine dining restaurants, banquet and meeting facilities, guest moorage, and permanent moorage (subject to availability).  Members are also encouraged to participate in a wide range of regattas and cruises, and enjoy activities and dining events at the Club.  Membership with SYC offers use of our Elliott Bay clubhouse facilities and discounted Elliott Bay moorage (subject to availability), use of nine Outstations (listed below), and reciprocal privileges to more than 225 other yacht clubs around the world.  

SYC OUTSTATIONS

• Cortes Bay – Desolation Sound, B.C. 
• Eagle Harbor – Bainbridge Island 
• Elliott Bay – Seattle 
• Friday Harbor – San Juan Islands 
• Ganges – Saltspring Island, Gulf Islands, B.C. 
• Garden Bay – Pender Harbor, B.C. 
• Gig Harbor – South Puget Sound 
• Henry Island – Roche Harbor, San Juan Islands 
• Ovens Island – Dunsmuir Islands, Gulf Islands, B.C. 
• Port Madison – Bainbridge Island 

Several levels of membership are available based on the age and marital status of the candidate.  For an individual membership, the initiation fee is determined by the age of the new member on the date the application is completed.  Monthly dues adjust throughout the life of a membership as it advances from one class to another.  We encourage married couples to apply for joint membership.  There is one initiation fee, which is determined by the age of the older spouse on the date the application is completed.  The monthly dues are determined using the birthdate of the older spouse.  To request a chart of the current fees and dues, contact SYC's Membership Director.

Each membership application needs one primary sponsor and three other members to serve as recommenders (all must be voting or Surviving members of SYC).  The application process begins when a voting member of SYC checks out an application packet and becomes the applicant’s sponsor. 

Interested In Learning More?

If you are interested in exploring membership and receiving an invitation to SYC's next Open House (date TBD), please complete and submit a Prospective Member Interest Form . 

Membership Brochure & Benefits Of Membership Video

For an overview of the Club, download SYC's Membership Brochure . Enjoy the video below about the benefits of membership with SYC featuring the Club, our Outstations, activities, and some of the people who make the Club special.

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Seattle Yacht Club on Henry Island

Address: 273 Front Street Friday Harbor, WA 98250

Website: http://www.seattleyachtclub.org/

Phone: (206) 325-1000

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Seattle Yacht Club on Henry Island is located at 273 Front Street Friday Harbor, WA 98250. They can be contacted via phone at (206) 325-1000 for pricing, directions, reservations and more.

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• October Racing at its Best: SYC Grand Prix

Seattle Yacht Club’s autumn classic delivers on every level for all three days!

Seattle Yacht Club’s venerable Grand Prix Regatta is really unique in the variety it offers each year — falling in late October over three days, you’re sure to get varied conditions. The committee’s decisions to mix distance and buoy racing nearly always makes it an excellent test of sailors’ skills and versatility. In 2023, conditions could not have cooperated more splendidly, with all race days pairing brisk fall temperatures with sun and, most importantly, breeze! 

As ever, Grand Prix is an event that tends to draw out many of the biggest, fastest yachts in central Puget Sound. That was certainly true this year in Class 1 where I was sailing, with three TP52s — Smoke , Glory , and Mist — and the Reichel/Pugh 55 Zvi . But Grand Prix is not just a big boat event; there were also one design fleets of J/80s and J/105s, and four other classes racing under either ORC or PHRF handicap systems. In all, 42 boats were out for three terrific days of fall racing. 

I have always held that October is the best sailing month in the Pacific Northwest, an opinion I share with many others. And boy howdy if Friday wasn’t perfectly October! Sunshine splashed through broken clouds while 12-18 knots of chilly north wind whipped at flesh we allowed to peek out of our foulies. The northerly was paired with a flood for the afternoon’s race, which kept the water mostly flat. With such ideal conditions on Friday, pre-race rumors were confirmed, and we found a distance course displayed on the board of SYC’s stately Portage Bay committee boat. 

The race committee must have been feeling a little creative, because in all the races I’ve sailed in central Puget Sound, the course was new to me — a trapezoid bringing Class 1 boats upwind to a temporary mark near Richmond Beach, reaching west to a mark near Jefferson Head, downwind to Blakely Rock, reaching back east to Duwamish head, upwind to round the finish mark (presumably to allow for a shortened course, if necessary) downwind to West Point and a final beat across Shilshole Bay to the finish. There were a lot of marks to remember! And a lot of the race was sailed perpendicular to the breeze in trim-to-course reaching mode. 

Under sunny skies, we got underway and charged upwind in some of the day’s more moderate breeze. For this race, and throughout the weekend, the general consistency of the wind meant that on Glory we spent more time evaluating which side of the race course had more breeze or current advantage, and less time playing shifts. This generally paid on Friday, and we had good speed, rounding the top mark in first and bearing away to the reach. As soon as we were making westward progress toward Jeff Head, it was clear we were going to have a close call with a southbound commercial ship. We had to trim upwind for a minute or two, and cut narrowly behind the massive freighter before bearing away again and hoisting the kite around the mark. 

The run was as pleasant as it gets with some of the best breeze of the day, 14-18 knots. There was a small compression breeze advantage the farther west you were so, as the fleet made its way down the Sound, that was the game. 

Glory and Zvi stayed tight through the run, while increasing a slight margin ahead of Smoke and Mist . We waited until the last second to get the kite down at Blakely and didn’t manage our best douse or transition to the next reach. 

It was an uneventful trip east to Duwamish head, where we were met with more commercial traffic at the turn, necessitating an immediate tack around the mark to avoid a tug and tow. The trip north through Elliott Bay got very fluky. Big shifts, surprising holes, and monster growlers coming through the Interbay cut. For the first portion, it didn’t seem to pay to be well inside, but by the time we neared Elliott Bay Marina, the closer to shore you were, the more favorable the current, breeze, and shifts. On the final lap in Shilshole Bay, Glory was able to extend a bit on the competition, taking line honors and the first race of the long weekend. 

With the distance race in the books, we knew we’d likely be sailing buoy races the rest of the weekend. We headed out on the water for the second day of Grand Prix, and found zero breeze. After a brief postponement, things got cookin’ again with a cold northerly hovering around 10 knots and sterling visibility. The day’s courses were set long — at least one as long as 14 miles in total for Class 1 — but the race committee was able to score three excellent races for all fleets. The committee really did a great job, with square starting lines and fair courses. 

Saturday’s Class 1 battles saw TP 52 Smoke find good form and consistency, sailing cleanly to finish the day with the best score line. They carried a one point lead over Glory into Sunday.

The second day of Grand Prix saw a few great battles brewing in other fleets. The group of boats in Class 2 has seen some of the tightest, most fun racing all season long, and this event was the latest in a riveting string of closely fought regattas. By the end of the day, Iain Christenson’s Farr 36 Annapurna and Abbey Norris’ King 40 Hydra had traded leads atop the class, and were each looking formidable. As Regan Edwards commented after a full day of racing on Farr 30, Nefarious , “We sailed until the sun went down. Literally.”

Sunday dawned with more of the same: autumn sun and champagne sailing in a brisk northerly breeze. With two more well-run buoy races on the docket, there was still lots to play for and it was moving day in many fleets — with boats ascending to podium positions thanks to double bullets. In fact, six of seven classes saw the same boat win both races on Sunday. These top performances launched J/105 Peer Gynt from third at the end of Saturday to first overall in that hotly contested one design class, and helped Farr 39ML Absolutely and Sunfast 3600 Rush secure the third podium spots in their competitive classes. 

In Class 1, Sunday was a tour de force from Smoke . They started well, positioned themselves perfectly, had plenty of speed, and just didn’t give Glory or anyone else a real shot at their regatta lead. They sailed very well and deserved their win — hats off, Smoke team! 

In the end, it was a classically great weekend of autumn racing at what is always one of the best events of the year. In addition to Smoke , around the fleet class wins went to Annapurna , John Hoag’s 1D35 Shrek , Dan Randolph’s Farr 30, Nefarious , Paul Viola’s Peer Gynt in the J/105 fleet, Herb Cole’s Melges 24 Judo Chop taking the top spot in PHRF Class 6, and Lek Dimarucot topping the J/80 one-design class on Underdog . 

Full results here . 

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Joe Cline has been the Managing Editor of 48° North since 2014. From his career to his volunteer leadership in the marine industry, from racing sailboats large and small to his discovery of Pacific Northwest cruising —Joe is as sail-smitten as they come. Joe and his wife, Kaylin, welcomed a baby girl to their family in December 2021, and he is enjoying fatherhood while still finding time to sail, make music, and tip back a tasty IPA every now and again.

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A henry island weekend – shrimp, oysters, and an isthmus in the san juan islands.

So much of our personal experience of the Pacific Northwest involves lush green forests and mountain ranges where we've hiked and played for years. We haven't spent much time on the coasts and we forget how beautiful and important the Pacific Ocean is to the identity of the region. Recently, we got the chance to spend time on the edge of the Pacific. We spent time on the water in the San Juan Islands, Washington and then again on the coast in Pacific City, Oregon. In this post, we'll talk about our few days on Henry Island in the San Juan Islands and in a future post about our time in Pacific City.

From ski to sea

A prawning life.

The focus of our few days staying on Henry is prawning. It's prawning season and our friends are hardcore. Day one is a crash course for us in how to use bait to attract prawns, how and where to set the pots (traps), how to clean the captured prawns, and then how to enjoy them. It's fascinating and exhausting. After one hour on the water on day one, I'm ready to go back. But alas we have several more hours to go and a second day of prawning ahead of us.

Isthmus time

An isthmus is a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land. On Henry Island the 21-acre salt-marsh isthmus is a preserve at the crossbar of the “H” shape of Henry Island. The island was named by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841 for Charles Wilkes ' nephew Henry Wilkes, who was killed in 1840 in Fiji, earlier on the expedition. As much as I felt out of my element on the water, I feel that much at home in the soft grasses and green woods around the salt marsh and shoreline. Hunting plants rather than shrimp is more interesting. The preserve is home to an abundance of wildlife and native plant communities. As a natural system, the area features both high quality and high diversity, including a shallow mud-bottomed bay, an intertidal zone, a coastal beach, salt-grass meadows, and natural dunes. The rare accretion beach on Nelson Bay has been identified as one of the most important habitat sites of this type in Washington State. It's in the accretion area behind Nelson bay that we encounter the gorgeous Carex macrocephala , big head sedge and the halophytic Salicornia virginica , pickleweed. In the cool surrounding woods, we walk shoulder to shoulder with foxglove, Digitalis , and below ocean spray, Holodiscus discolor .

Spieden Island

Over the two days of prawning, we did so around the northwest end of Spieden Island . The island has a split personality and an interesting history. The island is about 2 miles long and a half mile wide at its widest, and runs approximately east to west. The north side of the island is lush and green while the south side of the island is brown and mostly barren. The dividing line between the two halves runs along the spine of the hill that more or less runs the length of the island. On the brown side, there are scattered boulders called glacial erratics . We keep motoring off the shores of Spieden Island, dropping traps, picking up traps, and then vainly searching for one that got lost. The island calls to be explored. We would have loved to, but it's private. Spieden Island was also named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, to honor William Speiden, the purser of the expedition's Peacock.   In the 1970s, the island was briefly a game reserve, a venture that didn't last long. But a number of exotic animals were imported to the island. In one of the lull times between setting traps and going back to collect them (about 1-2 hours), we spot deer and then sheep that we can't easily identify. Left over exotics? Their identity will have to remain a mystery for now just like the island.

A boating life

One day we head into Roche Harbor to gas up our tooling-around Grady White boat. (The boat we sleep on is much larger, with state rooms.) The boating life runs on fuel. As we pull in slowly to the harbor – to avoid creating a wake – our friend refers to the collection of boats as a "fiberglass farm". She refers specifically to the power boats. There are handsome boats and there are ugly boats. Sleek boats and bloated boats. Big boats and small boats. All run on some form of fuel, even sail boats. Our fuel fill up comes with a sobering bill of four hundred dollars. Ancient fossils power our traipsing around. Roche Harbor sits at the north end of San Juan Island and is an official point of entry into the US. The Canadian border is a stone's throw away. Roche Harbor is also a popular destination-wedding location for it's accessibility (nearby airport), natural beauty, and things to do.

  Parking your boat in Roche Harbor, you can easily reach the nearby roadside attraction called the " Afterglow Vista ", formerly known as the John S. McMillin Memorial Mausoleum. The mausoleum was completed in in 1936 and is full of masonic and biblical symbols important to McMillin. A little farther from Roche Harbor is the Westcott Bay Shellfish Company. We instead arrive there one day by boat, lazily motoring through the serene Westcott Bay looking at the real estate we probably can't afford. You can eat at Westcott, but we buy a couple dozen oysters and take them back for dinner on the boat. The Oysterater site says of oysters, "[t]hey are as close as you can come to eating the sea and getting away with it." All the Wescott Oysters we buy are called High Beach Sweets but are essentially Pacific oysters ( Magallena gigas ), an introduced species from Japan. The Pacific oyster was imported in the 1930s to save the West Coast oyster industry after the native Olympia oyster ( Ostrea lurida ) was nearly wiped out. The Pacific oyster is the main oyster used today worldwide, from France to China. The different types of Pacific oysters can be chalked up to cultivation and merroir .

Coda: sea as it glides

The day has been melting away We've been lying on the shore for a while And the sun is still And you are the sea as it glides

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