Day 1: Attached are some photos I took from today’s leg from Lopez Island to Ganges Harbor. We had a great sailing day with 15 knot winds and current in our favor. The morning clouds burned off around 9am and we had beautiful sunny weather the whole day! -Melissa DayContinueContinue Reading
Ahoy Mates, This year the Commodore’s Cruise will take us to Roche Harbor in June. You might wonder: Why in June? Initially, it seemed to me that it should be very easy to choose both a date and a destination for the Commodore’s Cruise. However, as my time to decideContinueContinue Reading
Ahoy! The 2023 LIYC North Cruise is ~3 weeks away, and I hope you all are excited about it as much as I am. If you haven’t already notified me, please let me know if you will be joining us for the cruise, so I can add you to theContinueContinue Reading
The LIYC 2023 Summer Cruise is only a few months away, and I hope you are excited as I am about it! If you are or may be interested in participating for all or some of it, please let Melissa Rohde know by email (melrohde@gmail.com). There are several destinations on the cruiseContinueContinue Reading
Blog log #1 Port of Sidney is a lovely destination and we had about 10 boats arriving between Friday 7/8 and Sunday7/10. Customs was our biggest challenge. For those of us that tried to clear customs on Friday we hadthe additional challenge of a national phone service outage that affectedContinueContinue Reading
Greetings Yacht Club Members, I would like to begin with wishing everyone a very happy 4th of July, I hope you will all be able to spend some time with friends and family during the holiday. This years Clambake was a real treat, the weather turned out nice and itContinueContinue Reading
We sent an email out yesterday to everyone that we had listed attending the North Cruise. If you didn’t receive the email, please contact us so we can include you on future correspondences. We will be putting a list together of all the ports and attendees so everyone will haveContinueContinue Reading
North Cruise Update Ahoy! From your Rear Commodore, BJ Christensen . . . DATES: Sunday, July 10, 2022, through Saturday, July 30, 2022 Come join us for a long-awaited northern cruise to Desolation Sound. This year we are planning on splitting the cruise into two parts: Leg 1 will includeContinueContinue Reading
Ahoy sea faring club members! What has normally been the North Cruise has been turned upside down and has become the South Cruise. Old timers in the club, talk of how the “South Cruise” was the norm for many years, then in need of fresh experiences, the club started cruisingContinueContinue Reading
Hello Lopez Island Yacht Club Members.I want to open the Commodores Corner by thanking everyone involved in a great opening day. Dusty and Michelle Forster, Sam and Adria Alhadeff, for coordinating the whole thing and cooking a couple of hundred smash burgers. Russ Johnson set up the sailboat race, LaneContinueContinue Reading
Our October 21st General Membership Zoom meeting was well attended with over 50 members joining in. John Zaborsky arranged for an excellent speaker, Glen Wagner, who presented: “Anchoring with Confidence and Tips for Determining Where To Drop Your Anchor When in Small or Crowded Anchorages.” With a saturated title suchContinueContinue Reading
It shouldn’t be a surprise that many of us were able to enjoy cruising despite this summer’s Covid restrictions. Isn’t boating all about navigating changing conditions? We’re used to watching the weather, double-checking the anchor, wearing life jackets and following Rules of the Road. Still, this summer was different. “OfContinueContinue Reading
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