Powerboat

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.

Seattle Yacht Club Sailing

2019 SYC RACE BOOK

YOUTH SUMMER SAILING SCHOOL

ADULT SAILING LESSONS

REGATTAS

JUNIOR RACE TEAM

HIGH SCHOOL SAILING

OPTI GREEN FLEET PROGRAM

Junior Race Team

Race Team Vision

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

JOIN THE TEAM

RACE TEAM SCHEDULE

Race Team Coach: Cameron Hoard

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!

QUESTIONS?

Contact Coach Cameron Hoard.

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.