The USCGC Eagle arrived in Seattle on July 9. The Northwest District reports that dozens of Auxiliary boat crew members provided an escort to the Eagle. The Auxiliary teams came from the various flotillas in the Puget Sound including our Flotilla to provide the escort, and then performed training in the area for the rest of the day. The Eagle was open for public tours the next day.
Sector Puget Sound is establishing an Auxiliary Emergency Management Team to support contingency exercises, ICS training and contingency planning, coordinated by Auxiliarist Stephen Hueffed.
Pam, Peter and Leslie taught boating safety topics to the Bellingham Yacht Club’s youth program at the club’s request.
Flotilla boat crews spent the summer verifying science buoy locations, running search patterns, supporting the WA360 race and joining the USCGC Eagle escort.
Pam helped instruct an eleven-student Boat America boating safety class in Anacortes for Division 2.
Command of the Bellingham-based 87-foot cutter USCGC Terrapin passed from LTJG Katya L. Armbrecht to LTJG Jane A. Alandydy.
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.
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.
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.
Manny Eusebio completed the requirements for AuxOp, and a hybrid Core Training Blitz is planned for the fall.
Two flotilla AVs have begun 2025 PATON verifications, completing 12 of 44 with two discrepancies reported.
Flotilla members recognized in 2025 for years of membership, AUXOP qualification, operations service and public education service.
A surprise occupant of a kayak, photographed by Coast Guard Station Seattle.