Update #1: make your RSVP's for both Deer Harbor AND Port Ludlow (*if you need a PL slip 6/3) Immediately Plz!
(*contact Kristina 206-999-0609 for Deer Harbor special RSVP instructions...)
ALSO... Mandatory Skippers meeting for ALL (!!!!) boats on this cruise, Thurs, June 26 at Fisheries, 1900 N Northlake Way, Seattle at 6:30 pm
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STYC's First San Juan Island Cruise!!!
July 3rd - 6th, 2025
*Mandatory* Skippers Meeting - June 26th 6:30 pm,
with & by the Commodore's
*Kristina will reach out to each of the skippers with further instructions.
Please join us for Sloop Tavern Yacht Club's first time ever 4-day cruise to the San Juan Islands for the 4th of July. We will be heading up to Roche Harbor for their weekend full of events & their Fabulous Fireworks Display. Plan on dropping multiple anchors for a raft-up both July 3rd & 4th. We will then continue onto Deer Harbor Marina for July 5th. If you choose to carry on elsewhere on your own please feel free to do so. All boats should approach this cruise as Self-Reliant.
We are posting this exploratory Island Cruise 3 weeks earlier than we normally do in order to have a solid boat list by June 2nd, and to simply give everyone time to arrange taking Thursday July 3rd off. If you cannot....we have reserved a handful of slips in Port Ludlow for the night of July 3rd. (You must call & make your reservation yourself - say you are with the July 3 STYC San Juan group).
This would strategically put slower boats or those stuck in Seattle until 6 pm 7/3 ample time to tuck into Port Ludlow (on the 1st leg North-bound) by Twilight. Then carry on across the straits the following day, July 4th to meet those already on anchor in Roche Harbor. Use your AIS to locate the raft-up. And fly your Burgee!
Again Please be aware that we NEED to have a total boat list *No Later* than Monday JUNE 2nd !
Because we will be accommodating for different skill levels, variable straits conditions, & differing to no-familiarity of the San Juan Islands, there will be a *Mandatory* Skippers Meeting held by the STYC Commodores on:
Thursday June 26th at 6:30 pm Fisheries Supply,
1900 N Northlake Way Seattle.
This will be a Mandatory meeting for ALL planning to go North. And because boats move quickly from the waitlist to the "go" list, those on the waitlist are requested to be present at the June 26th meeting as well. We still urge you to sign-up on the Waitlist. We will give out Much more detailed information then. Much of this cruise is being strategized as we post this announcement...
To Register: https://www.styc.org/event-6188296
So.... To the Islands We Sail!!! We are Super excited to take this yacht club up to the Northern Salish Sea. Absolutely hoping You will join us for our very 1st San Juan Island Cruise!!
See you on the 26th of June!
Cheers!
Kristina Southard, Cruise Chair
