SYC Dock Zero - Opening Day 2026
Seattle Yacht Club & Trio Welcome the World to Opening Day 2026!
For moorage on Dock Zero, please communicate with the coordinator for your yacht club and submit a waiting list request through this event form to share your contact and boat details and agree to the rules for Dock Zero below.
Our goal is to communicate approved moorage to every club’s dockmaster by March 31, 2026 and communicate additional boats accepted off the waiting list if additional space becomes available throughout April 2026 until May 1st, 2026.
Additional resources:
Opening Day 2026 - Seattle Yacht Club, includes
Overview and details of the event
Log Boom
Parade Registration
If you have questions, please email [email protected]. Our goal is for our volunteers to respond to emails within 24 hours.
Note, all boats are initially waitlisted, so please do not be concerned if the event says no spaces available.
Dock Zero Rules & Regulations
All yacht clubs must provide a dockmaster - Please Email name and cell number to [email protected].
The rights and privacy of others must be respected.
All boat owners must complete a pre-registration application prior to arrival.
All boat owners must have insurance of a minimum of $500,000.
All boats must check in upon arrival, no earlier than Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Radio VHF 68 to coordinate docking before final approach to Dock Zero. We need a contact name and phone number as well as the number of people on board.
All skippers must fill out a fire plan that must be kept on the boat and all on board must be made familiar with the fire plan. Part of the fire plan is that skippers will have fire extinguishers on their boat and will spend the nights on their boats while on Dock Zero. It may be possible to have a skipper who is rafted to you monitor your boat if that plan is arranged with and approved by the Dock Zero moorage director. No open flames are permitted on Dock Zero! This includes barbecues, tiki torches, blow torches, flame throwers, etc.
As a courtesy to other boaters, generators and diesel furnaces shall not be operated before 0700 or after 2200 hours.
Skippers of each boat with pets aboard will be held responsible for the actions of their pets at all times aboard and ashore. Dogs MUST be kept on a leash at all times while off the boat. This includes floats, docks, lawns, etc. No pets are allowed in the clubhouse, rest rooms or showers at any time. Skippers will clean up after their pets.
Use of conventional marine toilets with overboard discharge of untreated waste is prohibited.
Boats moored on Dock Zero cannot leave cars parked in SYC parking lots.
All boats must be off Dock Zero no later than 6pm Sunday, May 4, 2025.
Communications on VHF 68.
Rafting:
Boats 60’ or longer are not allowed on Dock Zero
Unless an exception is explicitly granted, all boats must stern-tie to the dock
Boats 40’ or longer must put down a bow anchor