Squadron Activities
Spokane Sail & Power Squadron members get involved in a whole gamut of activities related to our three-fold mission of Civic Service, Self-Education, and Fraternal Boating Club. You are invited to explore many of these on our web site - just click on the links of special interest to you. As you look at what we do to serve others, teach and take courses and seminars of boating interest, and just have fun, consider how getting involved as a member of Spokane Sail & Power Squadron will help you
Civic Service
Self-Education
Fraternal Boating Club
Prime among the squadron activities not discussed elsewhere on this web site are the monthly squadron dinner/ program meetings at the squadron clubhouse and the cruise/rendezvous we take on various local lakes and rivers.
Spokane Sail & Power Squadron is always on the lookout for new program ideas for its monthly dinner/program meetings. We typically have 11 such meetings a year - the 2nd Tuesday of every month (except November, when we schedule Casino Night for a Friday just before Thanksgiving). The regular monthly dinner/program meetings cost just $5.00 per person (plus a salad or dessert to share) for a full sit-down dinner. Casino Night features "heavy hors d'oeuvres" plus wine and beer, all for just $10.00 per person. In the past we've even gone "off campus" for something special, like a planetarium visit to Eastern Washington University or a trip to the U.S. Weather Bureau station in Airway Heights.
Programs over the past several years have included: * Emergency Preparedness and CERT; * Marine Insurance; * Mexican Boating Adventure; * Spokane Water Rescue Team; * USACE Albeni Falls Dam; * Lake Roosevelt Houseboating; * Great Spokane Flood; * MedStar - Medical Transport; * Spokane River White Water Park; * Get What You Really Want for Christmas; * New electronic toys; * Trailer tire safety; * Raft & Kayak Float Trip Down the Spokane River; * Looking Ahead - Boats & Boat Shows; * Around Cape Horn & Beyond; * Boating in Arctic & Antarctic Waters; * Cruising the Southern Half of the Northern Hemisphere; * The Whole Dam Story (Snake River Dams); * Choosing Your Own Adventure; * Invasive Marine Species; * Diving the California Coast; * Boating on the Edge-Unlimited Hydroplanes; Fishing in NW Waters; * "Transpac" Race to Hawaii; * SSPS Members' Latest Year's Boating Adventures; * Boat Docks; * Marine Surveys; * Taking the Mystery Out of Celestial Navigation * Columbia/Snake River Dams Lock Repair/Replacement * Cruising Vancouver Island Waters * Fishing North Idaho's Big Lakes * Stormy Weather - Lightning, Thunderstorms * Walleye Fishing * Cruising the Inside Passage to Alaska * Coastal Cruise Planning Q & A
Spokane Sail & Power Squadron members' boats are scattered among the many lakes and rivers in the Inland Northwest, plus some moored in the Puget Sound and San Juan Islands areas. Other boats, of course, reside on trailers at their owners' homes and go wherever they are taken. Thus, any given cruise/rendezvous typically sees only a handful of members' boats show up. To accommodate other members, these outings are always planned for venues where people can drive to them and participate in shore-based activities. Recent trips have been to Sandpoint and Garfield Bay, on Lake Pend Orielle, and Harrison and Coeur d'Alene on Lake Coeur d'Alene.