Welcome to the South Sound Sailing Society!
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Membership Benefits
The South Sound Sailing Society has a year-round racing and cruising program, and meetings are held most months of the year. We’re a friendly group committed to sharing our love of sailing.
Membership also provides you with a wide range of reciprocal moorage opportunities on Puget Sound and Canadian waters. Take a look at our list of reciprocals — your SSSS membership pays for itself!
SSSS is a PIYA club, and members are eligible to race at most races run by other clubs on the Sound.
Most of all, your membership affords you the opportunity to learn, grow, and share with some of the nicest people we know.
SSSS Fisheries Discount
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A Light History of the South Sound Sailing Society
By Ted Brien and Bill Sheldon
Once upon a time in 1970, six or seven boats met at the Olympia Shoal. Someone called out, “Last one around the reserve fleet is an old oil derrick.” Off they went! One fouled on the anchor of a Liberty Ship; one ran headlong into a baby flat top he said he hadn’t noticed; the Reserve Fleet patrol yelled at them, took their names, and told them never to come back; on the way in, two went aground on the spoils bank, one man went over board. When they were safely tied up at their slips all agreed it had been a great afternoon and that they should do it every weekend. So began South Sound Sailing Society.
After a summer of racing without much organization, someone – usually said to be Dick Moe – suggested a meeting of those interested forming a new sailing club. Apparently Dick also suggested the meeting should take place at Gerry Carlstrom’s house rather than his own. Shortly before Christmas, more than 100 people filled two floors of the Carlstrom’s house in what became our first meeting. Roughly half of those in attendance disappeared immediately after, the rest became our founding members.
First, we would be a Society, not a yacht club. There would be no aspiration to bricks, mortar or docks of our own, no G&T’s at the bar when the sun was over the yardarm. We’d be a beer swilling crowd, like real sailors everywhere.
Click here to read the rest of the story.
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Use the Online Membership Application. This costs a couple of dollars more to pay PayPal for the service, but it is quick and easy.
- Fill out the online application form.
- Click on the “Pay Now” button to send payment via PayPal.
Or… print the Membership Application (which can also be used to renew your membership), fill it out and:
- Bring it to the next meeting with payment
or - Send it, along with a check, to:
SSSS, PO Box 1102, Olympia, WA 98507-1102
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