Greetings and Welcome to the 2025 Bell Harbor Rendezvous to be held on June 13-15, 2025.
This e-mail contains sign up information and important details. Please click above to register, let us know if you are joining the Friday Parade, add boat details, and sign up for the Saturday night dinner. Please read this message carefully – it has lots of information and this is a complicated event to coordinate. Most of your questions, if not all of them, will be answered if you carefully review this material. The registration form has several questions and a lot of information for you to fill out. Please fill it out carefully and completely.
The 2025 Bell Harbor Rendezvous is a first come, first served event. Registration is open until the marina is full or May 23, whichever first occurs. Dinner reservations will be taken until there are 70 signed up, with a wait list started after. The maximum number of boats that we can usually take is 45 – so do not delay – sign up NOW!
Here are event details:
Marquee Class: For our 28th annual Bell Harbor Rendezvous, our featured or “Marquee Class” of boats will be boats which served in WWII. We are thrilled to announce that “Air Snipe,” a 1943 110’ US Navy wooden hulled subchaser and her owners, new CYA members Matt Levy and Kelly Thynes, will be joining us this year. There are many other boats in our fleet which served in WWII, be sure to identify yourselves in the registration material so we don’t miss a mention of any Marquee Class boat in the program.
ITINERARY
FRIDAY, JUNE 13: Join the annual Bell Harbor Boat Parade off of Elliott Bay Marina at 1400 hours (2 PM). Look for the parade leader, Maranee, and listen to the “CYA Parade Director” on Channel 68. Boats will parade down the waterfront and will gather off of Bell Harbor Marina to be directed in by the harbormaster. Our new harbormaster this year is new CYA member and Captain of the Blue Peter, Scott Gienow. The dock plan will be distributed to registered participant boats a week before the event. Please indicate in your registration whether you will participate in the parade. Once you have arrived, please pick up your welcome/goody bag from aboard Maranee. Our primary sponsor, the Port of Seattle, has provided our complimentary bags this year, and you are going to be thrilled with their contents! At 5:30 on Friday, we will gather at the end of Dock C for private tours of the Air Snipe. After that, at approximately 6 PM we will gather at the tents at the bottom of the stairs to enjoy the “Port of Seattle Chowder Bar” with two types of chowder, bread and an ice cream social. The chowder and rolls are generously hosted by the Port of Seattle.
SATURDAY, JUNE 14: Continental breakfast at the head of the dock provided by Husky Deli. Breakfast will run from 0800 to 0930 and will include coffee, pastries, fruit, and protein items.
Boat Show – Open to the public from 10-4. You are expected to open your boat for public tours and to complete at least one volunteer shift. Thanks to our generous sponsors, we are again providing this fabulous weekend free of charge (except for the dinner Saturday night) and in exchange and in support of the CYA’s mission of education about classic boats, public interaction is required and it is essential. Registered participants will be receiving instructions about their volunteer shift in confirming e-mails for event participants. Also, if you want to stay at Bell Harbor Marina on Thursday night or Sunday night you will have to make a reservation directly with the marina and pay your moorage. Call Mike to reserve at 206-787-3951. Make your reservation early – once the dock plan is available it will be provided to Mike and he will try to put you in your assigned slip if you decide to arrive on Thursday.
Dinner: Our festive Bell Harbor Celebration Dinner will again be provided by Anthony’s Homeport Restaurant in the upstairs private dining room. Social hour at 5:45; dinner to be served at 6:30. To look at the menu, click here. No need to select menu choices in advance! You can buy dinner tickets for $100 per person. There is a strict 70 seat limit on our dinner, therefore only members with boats in the marina for the show can attend the dinner. If we get more than 70 dinner requests, we will start a wait list. Beverages will be available from Anthony’s by order at your own expense. Entertainment will be a presentation provided by the owners of Air Snipe and others who own Marquee Class Boats will be invited to tell us about their boat’s military service. Dinner, like registration, is on a first come/first serve basis.
SUNDAY, JUNE 15
BREAKFAST: The Sunday breakfast will run from 8:30-9:30 at the head of the dock. We anticipate providing a hot breakfast Sunday morning with Breakfast Burritos and other goodies from On Safari Food Catering. There will be a Mimosa Bar on Sunday morning as well.
Throughout the weekend look for the auction table where the items that are frequently raffled at this event will be auctioned this year. Make your bids on Saturday during the day and early Sunday morning! Winners will be announced on Sunday morning at 9:30 with all proceeds going to the PNW Fleet of the CYA to help offset the cost of this event. Watch your e-mail for auction updates! There will also be some items that will be raffled.
Boat Show: Show hours are from 10-4.
Awards Ceremony: Will take place at 4 PM on Sunday at the bottom of the stairs. Award for Best Engine Preservation, and People’s Choice and two People’s Choice Runner Ups will be given. Unless you have arranged to stay on Sunday night with the Bell Harbor Marina, please depart after the Awards Ceremony and not before. No early departures please!
Post Bell Harbor Cruise: Rear Commodore Pete and Helen Leenhouts are organizing our Post Bell Harbor Cruise. The first stop with be the former Ed Monk historic cabin in Port Madison. Full itinerary and sign-up details will be available soon. Watch for a separate e-mail to sign up for the Post Bell Harbor Cruise.
Reminder – This is a CYA event. Display your CYA Burgee on your flagstaff and remove other yacht club burgees from display on your boat. Signal flags are encouraged! Wear your CYA name tag and be sure to welcome the public to your boat!
Event Costs: The cost for our event goes up every single year. We are so fortunate to have so many generous event sponsors. Even with the 25% discount that we have for moorage from the Port of Seattle, the moorage alone is nearly $9,200 for the weekend. With all of the other costs, the weekend costs the PNW Fleet around $15,000 total (not counting the partially subsidized dinner which you pay for!). Be sure to thank our sponsors if you see them. Many of them will be joining us on Friday for the Port of Seattle Chowder feed.
Signs: You will be asked in your registration if you need a new Bell Harbor Sign. If you retained your sign from last year, please re-use it and tell us that you do not need a sign.
Participation Plaque: If you want a participation plaque you can request one. We will no longer make enough to all boats since not everyone has room for them or choses to display them.
- Boats for Sale: If your boat is for sale, new this year, in addition to listing the boat as a boat for sale in the program, we are going to have a separate section in the program where all for sale boats are listed in one place. There is no leaving your slip during the run of the show.
If your boat is for sale, be sure that all participants know that so if they get questions from the public about what boats are for sale they can direct potentially interested people to you.
If you have any questions contact event chair, Diane Lander, dianelander@outlook.com and/or 206-919-5099.
We are looking forward to having you attend the show!
