Our next PTYC Boating Experiences workshop will be on Saturday, February 7, 2026 from 10:00AM to noon, in the upstairs classroom (to the left of the stairs, not the main meeting room) at the Northwest Maritime Center. We will be learning more about the USCG’s search and rescue operations.
Our speaker is Captain Peter Joseph, USCG (retired). Captain Joseph graduated from the Academy with the Never Outdone class of 1961. Peter had a sea-going career interspersed with faculty positions both at the Academy and the Naval War College. He also served as the Deputy Director and then Director of Intelligence & Security in CG Headquarters. He has had the privilege of helping his shipmates with several life-saving open ocean rescues and illicit drug interdictions throughout the maritime domain. As the Commanding officer of the high endurance cutter, USCGC Boutwell, Peter and his crew experienced two unique rescues in the Bering Sea. In both cases had Boutwell not conducted the rescue, there would have been a total loss of nine lives.
If you are a secular person it will seem like a series of fortuitous events, but if you are faith-based this story will only serve to strengthen it. Some of the events leading up to the rescue are hard to believe. Joseph with the help of three videos of the rescues will describe the challenges that were countered in very poor winter weather conditions, including the rest of the story when he met one of the survivors 25 years later. It should be an interesting session!
No reservations needed and the public is welcome, so bring a friend. See you there.
Contact point is: DaleMoses@aol.com.