Stay tuned for Registration to open AND take Thursday July 3rd off if you can....

STYC's First San Juan Island Cruise!!!

July 3rd - 6th, 2025

*Mandatory*  Skippers Meeting - June 26th 7pm,

with & by the Commodore's

Greetings!

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. Just let us know what you would like to do after the 4th.

We are posting this exploratory Island Cruise 2 weeks earlier than we normally do in order to have a solid boat list by June 4th 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. 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 portion Northbound) by Twilight. Then, carry on across the straits the following day, July 4th, to meet those already on anchor in Roche Harbor.

Again Please be aware that we NEED to have a total boat list *No Later* than JUNE 4th ! 

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 7 pm at a location yet to be determined (with a zoom option available). 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 will give out Much more detailed information then. Much of this cruise is being strategized as we post this announcement...

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