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Celebrating 91 Years of Boating Clubs and Organizations Working Together - For Better Boating for All!

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In this Issue:

Instructions for October 15th 7pm Zoom General Meeting bottom of page:

Upcoming Events:

Practice Session for 2025 Opening Day Route - Oct. 18th
Please help in providing your clubs history for the Daughter's of Neptune Program.
PYC Halloween Party - Oct. 18th - Open to member clubs!
The Christmas Ships are Coming - Will you join them?
WOOO Annual Dinner - Nov. 2nd at CRYC
CRYA Annual Dinner - Dec. 3rd at Old Spaghetti Factory

In The News:

The Quarterly Edition of the Excrement Gazette Available Now.
Boat US new Life Jacket Loaner App./ Choosing a Pet PFD
WOOO Annual Dinner Invite
ODFW October Newsletter - Updates on the Outdoors!

Daughters of Neptune need your help!

Our Director Alicia Robinson has been working to gather information from all the clubs on the history of the Daughters of Neptune. She is looking for Pictures, past Daughters of your clubs, and stories of events that have taken place in the 70th year of celebrating the program. If you can help, Please contact Alicia at Alicia@CRYA.us.

The Christmas Ships are Coming - Will YOU Join Us This Year?

Christmas Ships Season is coming!

Join us!!

Now is a great time to join the longest continuously operating illuminated boat parade in the US.

It’s our 70^th year and we start parading on December 5, 2024, with the Combined Fleet parading by the Vancouver Waterfront. Join the opening celebration of Christmas Ships parade and stick around for the rest of the season – you will be hooked! This is a great opportunity to parade at night in vastly different conditions than you are used to, safely!, while learning new skills, becoming more confident, and joining a new boat family! Join us for one night or multiple nights, it’s totally up to your schedule, but you do have to SIGN UP prior to SHOWING UP. Read the New Skipper Information at Christmas Ships-New Skipper Info

Check the Christmas Ships website for a complete list of schedules and viewing locations for both the Willamette and Columbia. You can find all that and more at www.christmasships.org.

We look forward to welcoming you to the parade!

Still not convinced?

Here are a few of the benefits of being a Christmas Shipper:

It's fun, addicting, and rewarding!

· Free to join, no membership fee

· Be part of a select group of boaters who participate in a cherished 70-year Northwest Tradition

· Entertain your family and friends and start your own holiday tradition

· Improve your boating skills with dozens of experienced boat captains

· Make new friends – it’s great camaraderie

· Belong to a non-profit that gives back to the community you love

· Receive advice and assistance on display making

· Flexible schedule – you choose which and how many nights you parade

· Various complimentary meals for fleet members provided by local restaurants and community partners

· Free or reduced rate convenient moorage on the Columbia and the Willamette for fleet members during the parade season

· Free or reduced rate dock electricity during the parade season when visiting another moorage

· Fuel discounts-member pricing at various docks on the Columbia and Willamette during the parade season

· Reduced rate for repairs and haul outs during the parade season

Go to Christma sShips.org and sign up! (Deadline November 1, 2024)

Contact me if you have questions.

Kat Pettersen

President & Columbia Fleet Leader

Christmas Ships, Inc.

kat@christmasships.org

360-430-8562

CRYA Annual Dinner December 3rd at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Bancroft

Please plan to attend our annual dinner for a celebration of our 2024 officers and a great year of events. We will be introducing Bernie Bacon (NOTS) as the 2025 President of CRYA, along with the introduction of our new Vice President - Tracy Robinson (CRYC). We will have a 3-course dinner, beverage and tip included in the cost of $35. Last year it was ranked as one of the fun things that we did for the year so please plan to attend. All are welcome.

For more information you can contact Bev Hamlik @ Bev@crya.us

You can sign up today for the dinner on our PayPal link Here

The Fall Edition of the Excrement Gazette is Available Now!

Find the latest Edition HERE

BoatUS Foundation, National Safe Boating Council Launch Pilot Program to Make Borrowing a Life Jacket Easier

To read the article and find out more information about this

program - click HERE

Congratulations for your involvement with CRYA and for your energy and enthusiasm for the Oregon waterfront we all love.

CRYA and WOOO are sister organizations supporting each other and synergizing off our common efforts. Doug Romjue and I both agreed the relationship was so important we made two positions on the WOOO Board for the CRYA Exec Director and the President.

We are preparing our slate of Director candidates for election at our Annual Meeting and Dinner 11/2 5pm at CRYC to which you are welcome to attend. The meeting and dinner are exceptional and a great way to meet others from parts of the waterfront you might not meet otherwise.

Let us know if you or someone you know would love to participate in a lot of discussions and decisions that affect our waterfront by being a WOOO Director or participating on one of our workgroups. Some of the issues we are addressing are DSL dredging permit rates and rules, DSL submerged lands lease rates and rules, legislative oversight, social and more. But let us know soon as we need to formalize the slate of candidates.

We are proud to have several of our member yacht club's representatives on our WOOO Board including:

Randy Phillips Columbia River Yacht Club

Harry Braunstein Portland Yacht Club

Bob Wilson Tyee Yacht Club

We are thankful for the contributions of these and all Directors and workgroup members and know that our synergy can make the Oregon waterfront an even better place to live, work and recreate. Come join us!

See you on November 2!

Best regards,

Ron Schmidt

President, WOOO

Co-Chair, Membership Committee

503-539-6817

Ron@ThePlanningGroup.Org

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Content in your Club's Newsletters that all Boaters should read?

We can't see every club's internal communication, but we have to think some of the articles would be great information for all boaters. If you find that article of interest, please forward it to cryanews@gmail.com after getting approval to share. We can all be more informed.

Links of Interest - Or at Least Should Be!

St Helens City Dock Camera Port of Camas Dock Camera

Report Dock Damage Here Report a Boater OSMB Here

Report a boater incident to MCSO River Patrol Here

NEW - Pumpout Nav App for iOS for Android

Oregon Loaner Life Jacket Locations

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CRYA Facebook

Marine Services Directory

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Americas Boating Club Classes

General Member Meeting Information 7pm

Zoom Meeting Details - Here

Previous Meeting Minutes - September

Agenda for Meeting - Here

Treasurer's Report - September

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