Reasons for Not Attending a Rendezvous

Attending club rendezvous is probably the best way to get to know your fellow boaters and to begin to feel like "one of the gang". Al & I have been members of NYCE for less than a year (October 2006). It seems like longer as we feel we have made so many friends in the club.

That said, we will be hosting our first rendezvous September 7-9 at Port Orchard. We are excited about all the fun times we are planning. At the recent Ice Cream Social, held on the Party Dock at Navy Base Everett, we accosted people about their expected participation in the upcoming Port Orchard rendezvous. Much to our consternation, there were many excuses for not attending. This is just a sampling..... (names have been withheld to protect the innocent).

1. I'll be in Hawaii on business
2. Cruising to Canada on their boat
3. Been to Port Orchard recently
4. Will be attending a Wooden Boat Show in Port Townsend
5. Will be cruising on a BIG cruise ship
6. There is a competing rendezvous that date
7. Have their car entered in a car show that weekend

It is good to see that we are all such busy people and that boating is just one of the activities that we enjoy. I am glad that we can all get together as often as we do. Even so, I do hope we will have a good turn out at Port Orchard because I am planning SUCH a fun time :-)

Kathy Felker

Webmaster

NYCEinfo.org

NYCE August Get-Togethers

We attended the August rendezvous in Bell Harbor, downtown Seattle, on August 10-12. It was a great time and we had a record turn out of boats to fill C Dock at Bell Harbor Marina. It was a wonderful event with time to visit Pike Place Market, celebrating it's 100th Anniversary, and great food prepared by Sharilyn Howell, cruise captain. She prepared Frogmore Stew which has to be seen to be understood. (If someone has a photo they can send me of this, I'd appreciate it).

One of our members who rarely misses a rendezvous, claims to have attended by virtue of being near enough to see his fellow boaters. He also claims to have brought the largest boat. See photos.

Bell Harbor has some very nice facilities and is always open for visiting boaters as there is no permanent moorage here. Al & I think we will definately be back here again.

Kathy Felker

Webmaster

NYCEinfo.org

Major Website Change --- Please READ

Hopefully you have been reading the posted info about upcoming changes to the website navigation tabs. As of today I have removed the redundant tabs in the main navigation bar.

Don't panic... Everything is still there! Check out the MEMBERS ONLY tab which now contains the former pages as follows:

2007 Club Calendar
2007 Cruise Schedule
Newsletters
Reciprocals

Membership list (from the About the Club page)

This will allow more flexibility in adding items of interest to members and will give you one tab to find most things you will be looking for.

As always, I welcome your comments.

Kathy Felker
Webmaster
NYCEinfo.org

A Few Noteworthy Website Updates

Whenever I get a spare moment, it seems like there is always a change or two to make to our website. Here are the latest changes:

1. Our Home page is updated to feature a link to this Blog. I want to make sure everyone is reading it. Don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of this page and subscribe to the RSS feed so you'll know new articles are posted.

2. The 2007 Cruise Schedule is updated with intrigueing information about upcoming September and October cruises. Be sure to click on the link to the cruise captains to let them know you are coming.

3. There were several minor updates to the Reciprocals page. Don't leave home without it. Note the NEW Canadian reciprocal at Schooner Cove Yacht Club.

4. Under Local links on the Resources page I added a link to my favorite boating blog, BitterEnd written by Capt. Richard Rodriguez of Vessel Assist in Friday Harbor. If you want to see all the stupid things that unprepared boaters can do, check it out. This is real life stuff.

As always, leave your comments below.


Kathy Felker
Webmaster
NYCEinfo.org

Where Did July Go?

Have I missed writing a post here for over a month? Guess that means we've been out boating, and so we have. Working and boating, boating and working..... where does the time go?

We were able to get enough time off work to join our July NYCE rendezvous in Deer Harbor where Rico and Carolyn put on a very nice steak and salmon supper and a well planned event. From there the group headed north to several great Canadian ports. Click here for photos. Maybe someone who attended the whole cruise can fill in some details in the comments.

On our way home we stopped off at Fisherman's Bay for a night. We were cruising around the bay in our dinghy when we caught Vessel Assist "Remedy" moving a huge sailboat to the dock. It had lost it's engine and was drifting in the channel into the bay. Capt. Rodriguez of "Remedy" writes an excellent blog called "BitterEnd" that is worth daily reading. I sent him pictures of "Remedy" with the sailboat and he published them HERE.

We just returned from 5 days in the San Juan and Canadian Gulf Islands. We joined the Bellevue and NorVan Power Squadrons annual joint rendezvous in Maple Bay. It was our first time to Canada and we had a great time. We met so many new Canadian boating friends. See the map of our trip. As we have a "go fast" boat, this is a long one day, or shorter 2 day trip for us. We stopped at Oak Harbor (in 30 knt winds at 10pm.... what were we thinking?) on the way up, and Roche Harbor on the way home.

Sooooo, 3 days at work and then back in the boat headed to Seattle's Bell Harbor for our August NYCE rendezvous. It promises to be a good one! Hope to see you all there.

Kathy Felker

Webmaster

NYCEinfo.org