U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Santa Cruz

05/24/2025

Wrapping up National Safe Boating Week at West Marine Santa Cruz! Members of Flotilla 67 Santa Cruz and Flotilla 64 Monterey were on hand to give vessels exams and pass on boating safety tips.

05/19/2025

It’s one of our favorite weeks of the year!

Starting today is National Safe Boating Week, which is dedicated to demonstrating the importance of being smart out on the water!

Tune into our account this week for safe boating tips and fun facts!

🎨 Safe Boating Campaign.

02/08/2025

11/14/2024

Happy National Pajama Day! While we’re all snuggled up in our coziest PJs, let’s also remember to stay safe when we head out on the water.

A Lifejacket, like your favorite PJs provides a feeling of safety when we need it most.

Whether you’re lounging or boating, a life jacket is just as important as your favorite pair of pajamas! It’s always better to be safe than sorry—because safety never goes out of style. 🌊🛟

Stay tuned to our pages for more boating safety tips!

11/13/2024

SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard rescued a kite surfer north of Davenport Beach, Tuesday evening.

10/23/2024

You need the right gear for any sport, including paddling. Wearing the right life jacket and other equipment that is designed for your particular type of water recreational activity can make your time in and on the water even more fun, so .

10/16/2024

Always wear an engine cutoff device and a life jacket. If you capsize, stay with your boat, unless the shore is very close. The lake’s shore may look easy to reach, but often cold water, waves, current, exhaustion, or injury can make the swim deadly.

08/22/2024

The girl was wearing a life jacket, but the two men were not.

08/19/2024

We'd like to give a huge shout out to this heroic young man, Lazaro Perez.

While visiting Lake Nacimiento Resort on 8/18/2024 with his family, Lazaro observed a seven year old child fall off a tube near the shoreline. The child was not wearing a life jacket and immediately went under the water. When Lazaro did not see the child resurface he immediately jumped into action swimming out to the child, locating him, and then bringing him to the shoreline. Monterey County Park Rangers, Cal Fire Station 33, and San Luis Ambulance evaluated the patient and he was later transported by family members to a local hospital for further medical treatment.

Thank you, Lazaro, you truly saved the day!

07/18/2024

07/01/2024

🌟 Shout-out to Andrew Niquette 🌟, who is both AUXPA1 and AUXOP qualified, and currently serves as the National Division Chief – Publications, overseeing the Auxiliary’s largest national division, which produces the Navigator annual magazine and the Navigator Express e-magazine.

A proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, Auxiliarist Niquette was interviewed in June 2023 for a Coast Guard Auxiliary blog article and asked what Pride Month meant to him. He stated “to me, Pride Month is simply a highlighted extension of our mission to be all-inclusive to everyone that has taken the leap to become America's Volunteer Guardians. Our diversity efforts and commitment to showcasing this diversity at all levels of the Auxiliary never starts or ends on any particular day or month, because pride is absolute. But what Pride Month accomplishes for us all is showing our peers, our teams, and our leaders that no matter our pronouns, orientations, or identities, it will never negate any of our abilities to contribute our various backgrounds and talents to ”. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

📸 CGAUX.org

🔗 http://blogs-it.cgaux.org/member_news.php?title=title-48&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Note that the below is a historic photo taken during a time when we had to implement COVID-related mitigation measures for missions.