I have been a member of the Tacoma Yacht Club since 1994.

I have a Life Membership, but was not active in club activities for several years, except on an occasional basis. I served on the House and Grounds Committee, the Daffodil Committee, and in 2010 and 2011 on the Education Committee. I served as TYC Education Officer in 2012 through 2015, chairing the Education Committee. This committee provides monthly programs on topics of interest to the boating public. These range from hands on fire extinguisher practice and anchoring skills to classroom sessions regarding marine electronics and navigation, weather, or boat maintenance and operation issues. Club membership becomes a lot more meaningful as one gets more involved!

In 2012 and 2014 I participated in the Commodore's Summer Cruise. The 2012 cruise through the Canadian Gulf Islands culminated at the Big Splash in Victoria. Tourmaline was one of 40+ boats participating, and I enjoyed making many new friends.
Here we are in Montague Harbor anchored in a wagon wheel formation.

My grand daughter, Olivia Anderson, was chosen by the Tacoma Daffodil Festival to be Daffodil Queen in 2008. She was honored by TYC in their annual daffodil banquet and boat parade. I participated as an escort for one of the princesses at the TYC banquet in 2008 and have participated in the boat parade in 2006, 2010 and 2011, representing the Catalina Association of Tacoma and South Sound (CATSS).

2010 float entry won third place trophy for theme float category (Carousel in Springtime). This is Tourmaline sauntering along in the spring.

I moor my boat in the TYC basin, which was formed by the Asarco Smelter slag dumped into the bay for the first half of the 20th century. The surrounding bay has been a mega ecological clean up site through the last decade of the century, following the demolition of the smelter facility itself, which once boasted itself to be the tallest smoke stack west of the Mississippi. The water and air pollution levels have been remarkably reduced, and are constantly monitored by the EPA to keep it that way. Tacoma Yacht Club owns a handsome facility located at the outside end of this artificial peninsula. TYC has been in existence since 1889, the year Washington became a state.