Alert 11 — Summer 2025

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In this issue

• Emergency Management Team

  Sector Puget Sound is establishing an Auxiliary Emergency Management Team to support contingency exercises, ICS training and contingency planning, coordinated by Auxiliarist Stephen Hueffed.

• Auxiliary Escorts USCGC Eagle

  Dozens of Auxiliary boat crew members from Puget Sound flotillas, including Flotilla 11, escorted the USCGC Eagle into Seattle on July 9.

• Bellingham Yacht Club Class

  Pam, Peter and Leslie taught boating safety topics to the Bellingham Yacht Club’s youth program at the club’s request.

• Boat Crew Patrols

  Flotilla boat crews spent the summer verifying science buoy locations, running search patterns, supporting the WA360 race and joining the USCGC Eagle escort.

• Division 2 Public Ed Class

  Pam helped instruct an eleven-student Boat America boating safety class in Anacortes for Division 2.

• Terrapin Change of Command

  Command of the Bellingham-based 87-foot cutter USCGC Terrapin passed from LTJG Katya L. Armbrecht to LTJG Jane A. Alandydy.

• Sea to Ski

  Manny Eusebio, Jeff Shaw and Moti Krauthamer crewed the flotilla’s safety patrol for the race, which went smoothly with no kayak leg rescues needed.

• Sandy Point Vessel Safety Checks

  Auxiliarist Steve Bell performed four Vessel Safety Checks at Sandy Point Marina for its Opening Day and the start of National Safe Boating Week; two boats passed.

• FEMA Geospatial Damage Assessments

  Auxiliarists trained on FEMA’s mapping system help record disaster damage; a flotilla member’s team identified damaged buildings in Ruidoso, New Mexico, supporting a federal disaster declaration.

• Member Training

  Manny Eusebio completed the requirements for AuxOp, and a hybrid Core Training Blitz is planned for the fall.

• Navigation Systems

  Two flotilla AVs have begun 2025 PATON verifications, completing 12 of 44 with two discrepancies reported.

• Awards in 2025

  Flotilla members recognized in 2025 for years of membership, AUXOP qualification, operations service and public education service.

• Parting Shot

  A surprise occupant of a kayak, photographed by Coast Guard Station Seattle.