Meetings - Women's Sailing Association of Santa Monica Bay

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Monthly Membership social meetings are held the 2nd Monday of every month (2nd Tuesday, when Monday is a holiday), except in December when the annual Installation & Awards Banquet takes the place of the regular social meeting. We normally have dinner together, conduct a business meeting, and then hear from a guest speaker. All year long! It's a good time!

Happy Hour and networking starts at 6:00 pm and meeting starts at 7:00 pm. Dinner is a catered affair, and reservations are a must! Come early to have some food and drink and hang around with other sailors. Members may bring a guest!

How To sign up for a meeting:

Visit the Events Calendar on the website to see register for upcoming events and meetings. Through the calendar, you can register for the meeting with or without joining the catered meal.

You can also register for a meeting directly by selecting it from the upcoming meetings window below.

September 8-

Speaker Captain Marie Rogers

"Giving Back by Mentoring Women Sailors"

Please RSVP for Dinner by/before Thursday, September 4th

Dinner Menu: Pizza, wings, breadsticks and salad from Fresh Brother's Pizza

Marie Rogers was the second woman in 118 years to be the commodore of the historic Los Angeles Yacht Club (LAYC); where she established a sailing school and LAYC Community Sailing. Marie competed in the 50th TransPac race, but she didn’t see the diversity she was hoping for, so she recruited a diverse offshore team for future races. That effort became the nonprofit Offshore Racing Outreach, which competed in the 2023 Transpac as Team Good Trouble.

Marie also races close to home on her J/29 Rush Street, and does coastal racing on Marie, a Nelson Marek 55, that she shares with her husband Bill. Rogers loves doing deliveries, cruising, and teaching sailing.

She is the 2021 BoatUS/National Women’s Sailing Association (NWSA) Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award recipient and the Southern California Yacht Association (SCYA) Peggy Slater honoree who “best demonstrates outstanding contributions to the enhancement of women’s participation in the sport of sailing.” She serves on the board of US Sailing and the National Women’s Sailing Assn. and is also a Director at SCYA where she chairs the Inclusive Boating Committee.