Welcome to the Tacoma Power and Sail  Squadrons home page.  Inside you will find information on classes, rendezvous and meetings.  We are a unit of the United States Power Squadrons.® Sail and Power Boating. A national non-profit organization dedicated to safe boating through education.

The Tacoma Power Squadron was chartered on August 22nd, 1939.  Tacoma was the first Squadron in the Pacific Northwest, and the first Squadron on the west coast.   Tacoma was responsible for sponsoring three new Squadrons within District 16.   They are the Bremerton Power Squadron which received their charter on June 4th, 1952.  The Olympia Power Squadron which received their charter in 1954.   Agate Pass Power Squadron which received their charter on January 9th, 1956.   District 16 is made up of 17 Squadrons, Agate Pass-Bellevue-Bellingham-Bremerton-Columbia Bend-Deception Pass-Everett-Friday Harbor-North Olympic-Olympia-Possession Sound-Poverty Bay-Point Wilson-Seattle-Skagit Bay-Spokane and Tacoma.   The United States Power Squadron® (USPS)® is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.  USPS® oversees 33 Districts and 440+ Squadrons located through out the United States.  The Tacoma Power Squadron celebrates their 70th birthday this August.

If you would like further information, please E-Mail us and let us know how to get in touch with you or contact our message line at 253-383-1400.

Webmaster P/C Mark J. Hafterson, AP

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02/05/2010