NMEA Training April 1-3 at NMTA Office

	Outstanding NMEA Training Opportunities Coming to Seattle April 1-3 Please join us at our upcoming Educational Training Sessions: Location: Northwest Marine Trade Association 1900 N Northlake Way, # 233 Seattle, WA 98103-9087 (206) 634-0911 New Basic Marine Electronics Installer, Wednesday, April 1st NMEA 2000 Network Course, Thursday, April 2nd New Advanced Marine Electronics Installer, Friday, April 3rd The courses run from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. with an exam given at the end of the session. Pre-registration is required.  Please visit our website at www.nmea.org to register or complete the form below and fax it to our office at 410-975-9450. Course materials are sent out in advance, please sign up early. We hope to see you there! You won't want to miss out on this opportunity! Click here for Educational Training Registration Form

Youth Sailing Open House of Puget Sound - March 28

Bring your friends and family, invite your neighbors, tell your classmates! The public is invited to the second annual Youth Sailing Open House on Saturday, March 28 at theMt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center on Lake Washington. Puget Sound area residents live in in boating paradise, with what is arguably the largest variety of boating in the world at our back door and an abundance of programs and opportunities for kids to learn how to mess about in sailboats.  From local after-school programs to day camps to multi-week voyages to Desolation Sound, on boats as small as eight feet and as large as 133 feet, the options are endless.  

More than a dozen organizations have teamed up to put on this year's event, so that parents and kids can come learn about the variety of options available. Programs are available for children as young as five years old all the way through high school. The all-day event is FREE and will include activities ashore and on the water. There will also be a BBQ and prizes!

Activities Include:

Face painting

Sailing Video/Slide Show

Burgee Decorating

Knot Tying

Sailing Lesson Raffle 

Sailing Trivia

Points of a Compass 

Sailboat Oragami

Land Demos 

High School Regatta Spectating

Sailboat Rides!

Free BBQ

Programs In Attendance:

Beach Camp at Sunset Bay

Center for Wooden Boats

Corinthian Yacht Club  

Green Lake Small Craft Center  

Mt Baker Rowing and Sailing Center

Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club

​Northwest Interscholastic Sailing Association

Northwest Outward Bound School

Port Madison Yacht Club

Queen City Yacht Club 

Renton Sailing Club

Sail Sand Point 

Schooner Zodiac 

Sea Scouts of Puget Sound

South Whidbey Yacht Club 

Sound Experience/Adventuress 

SSS Yankee Clipper 

Tacoma Yacht Club 

The Sailing Foundation

YMCA Camp Orkila

For more information, visit: http://www.nwyouthsailing.org/youth-sailing-open-house.html

Boating Event Producers Encouraged to Attend U.S Coast Guard Marine Permit Meeting on March 12

Boating Event Producers Encouraged to Attend  U.S Coast Guard Marine Permit Meeting on March 12

U.S. Coast Guard Marine Permit Meeting 6:30 pm March 12^th at the 48° North office.

48° North will be hosting its annual meeting between the Coast Guard and organizations planning to conduct a marine event in the Puget Sound area. Marine event permits are required for any event that meets one or more of the following  critera:

• The event takes place on or near navigable waters of the US.

• The event takes place in or near an area designated as environmentally sensitive.

• The event involves inherently hazardous competition (example speed boat race with vessels traveling greater than 30 mph).

• The event could cause any obstruction to a navigable channel or change customary presence of commercial vessels.

The purpose of this meeting is to allow event organizers the opportunity to meet face to face with the members of the Coast Guard that administer marine permitting in sector Puget Sound. The Coast Guard will present a program covering who must have a permit, why the permits are required and how to obtain and file the proper forms, followed by a question and answer session. There is typically time to informally meet with the Coast Guard crew after the question and answer session.

Please drop by the 48° North office (6327 Seaview Ave. NW – behind West Marine) any time after 5:30 to mingle with other event organizers and the 48° North staff. The presentation will begin at 6:30.

RSVP encouraged but not required – joe@48north.com michael@48north.com or (206) 789-7350