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The Seattle Yacht Club used Terry Anglin from GSI Executive Search to conduct our General Manager recruitment and we were very happy with the process and results. He worked very hard to identify candidates who best fit our needs, vet them against our criteria, and was especially helpful during the tumultuous COVID period. He checked references to gain deep understanding of candidates skills, personality and working style. He really knows the industry and has extensive contacts in the private club world through his years in the search business and his leadership role in the CMAA. As a former GM, he has experience with the club issues and challenges and knows how to customize his search based on unique factors of the client. GSI provided excellent value for money and we couldn’t be more satisfied with Terry and GSI. 

Tom Captain and Brian Urback, Search Committee co-chairs

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Seattle Now & Then

Seattle now & then: seattle yacht club clubhouse, 1926.

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(Published in the Seattle Times online on April 23, 2020 and in the PacificNW Magazine print edition on April 26, 2020)

Yacht club’s 1926 Montlake reception had a crowning touch

By clay eals.

Royalty fueled the roar of the 1920s in Seattle on Nov. 4, 1926. That day, the city welcomed a woman whom The Seattle Times called the “most beautiful and gracious of all Europe’s feminine monarchs,” Queen Marie .

For the 51-year-old regal representative of Romania (then spelled Rumania), Seattle was but one destination on a cross-country tour. Accompanied in an open touring car by our first female mayor, Bertha Landes , the queen zipped through an afternoon of stops initially intended for a full day.

She drew record crowds, and the city delighted her: “In all the towns I have visited, I have found none so beautiful as your Seattle. In each corner today, I have found a place where I should like to live.”

The fitting finale was the home of the Seattle Yacht Club . Its clubhouse, perched on Portage Bay, south of the University of Washington and north of today’s Highway 520, had opened six years earlier, on May 1, 1920. For a reception put on by “club women of the city” to honor the queen, the building burst with autumn blooms, its veranda rails draped in dahlias.

Only 200 of the 1,500 assembled women could greet Marie, however, because what was to be a one-hour stay lasted “scarcely more than 15 minutes.” This did not prevent 60 women – bonneted, like the queen – from posing outside with three youngsters, as our “Then” photo shows.

It’s no accident that a lighthouse-shaped cupola topped the clubhouse, which The Times called “the finest on the Coast and one of the finest in the United States.” Famed architect John Graham, Sr. , certainly intended for the Colonial Revival/Shingle Style structure to complement the recently opened Lake Washington Ship Canal, including nearby Montlake Cut, which connected Portage Bay to the lake.

The parcel, formerly marshland and a landfill for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at the UW campus, became available for the club’s purchase after a casino proposed for the site fizzled. The club deemed the calm, freshwater setting a buoyant change from the rough weather, railroad noise, oil dumping and swells of passing steamboats that its boaters and craft had endured at saltwater bases on Elliott Bay and along the West Seattle shore since its founding in 1892.

Today, with 2,800 member families and myriad programs for all ages, Seattle Yacht Club is the oldest and largest such local organization.

The coronavirus scuttled its traditionally sponsored early-May merriment for Opening Day, but the club optimistically has rescheduled an elaborate celebration of its clubhouse centennial for Sept. 26. Sailing and motor vessels from the 1920s are to be on display, including one that participated on Opening Day in 1920.

One might envision the pending party as fit for a queen.

To see Jean Sherrard ‘s 360-degree video of the “Now” prospect and compare it with the “Then” photo, and to hear this column read aloud by Clay Eals , check out our Seattle Now & Then 360 version of the column, when it is posted!

Below are a “Now” identifier photo and two other photos as well as 11 clippings from The Seattle Times online archive (available via Seattle Public Library) that, among others, were helpful in the preparation of this column.

And at the bottom, see a book excerpt relating to Queen Marie’s visit to the Seattle Yacht Club clubhouse on Nov. 4, 1926, plus a 1954 club menu!

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Meet Patrick Harrigan, Anacortes Boat & Yacht Show Committee Member

Patrick is the General Manager of  Seattle Yachts . Seattle Yachts is an Anacortes-based company with operations in sales, manufacturing and service. They have a nationwide presence with locations in Washington, California, Florida and Annapolis.  Seattle Yachts is also the proud manufacturer of Tartan, Legacy, Bullfrog, Seapiper and Northern Marine. 

What are you most proud of as it relates to the Anacortes Boat and Yacht Show? It’s a serious show representing a wide variety of yachts, services and marine-related accessories in a laid-back setting. But what I am most proud of is how the show also gives back to and supports the community. The show committee is composed of folks from the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, NMTA and the Anacortes Marine Trades Committee. 

Over the years the Marine Trades Committee has donated proceeds from the show back into the community. Last year the Anacortes Waterfront Alliance (AWA) received $18,000 to buy three new Tera sailboats which will allow them to get more kids and families out on the water. Previously we had donated a chase boat. The Skagit Valley College Marine Technology program was allocated $10,000 to purchase outboard motors dedicated to training purposes.

Personal boating history I have lived in the Puget Sound area my entire life. I grew up boating off the shores of Mukilteo, first in an eight foot rowing skiff, and then in an El Toro sailboat. My first motor boat was a 14’ Starcraft my Dad brought home with a 1958, 18hp Evinrude Fastwin. Just to be clear this was not in 1958 —I’m not that old!

What do you most appreciate about working with NMTA?   I love working with like-minded people, working together towards the common goal of getting people out enjoying the beautiful waters of the Pacific Northwest.

As a teenager I worked at McConnell’s Boat House in Mukilteo renting boats and weighing in fish. I once weighed in a 55-pound king caught off of Clinton!  

After sailing four years in Pacific Mexico and the Sea of Cortez with my wife and son, we settled in Anacortes. We recently purchased a 1975 Roughwater 35 and look forward to many adventures to come, including spending more time in the Queen Charlottes/Haida Gwaii.

When not boating, what do you like to do?

When I’m not sailing, boating, fishing or crabbing you can find me in the kitchen making pizza. Currently, my favorite pizza is potato, rosemary and pistachio.

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