2025 Chesapeake Bay SSCA GAM at the Maryland Yacht Club, Pasadena MD
September 26 to 28, 2025

Come by car or boat to hear from cruising services leaders and wide-ranging cruisers. There will be ‘hands-on’ sessions, plus social and happy hour events! New this year will be an option for Safety for Cruising Couples. The Gam is open to SSCA members and non-members. Simply register through the website at ssca.org/2025ChesapeakeGAM.


The Chesapeake Bay GAM is the biggest event of the SSCA calendar. Held before the fall Annapolis Sailboat Show every year for many years, the Gam has become a remarkable opportunity to listen to and meet leaders of the boating services. Gam with cruisers from circumnavigators to those with long seasons in the Bahamas and Caribbean and those who gunkhole the US east coast. The Gam program runs from Friday evening pot luck through Saturday and Sunday mid-day presentations, interest groups and gam time. For 2025, the Gam will include options on Friday for the Safety for Cruising Couples training program from CCA (nearly full day) and American Heart Association CPR/AED/First Aid certificate course in the afternoon. The Gam keynote speaker is Nigel Calder, wizard of boat mechanics and electrics, and author of the essential Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual, the Guide to Fixing Everything on Your Boat. Other speakers include marine weather expert Chris Parker, boat broker Curtis Stokes and representatives (and some principals) of Aquamaps, Predictwind, and Landfall Navigation among others. There will be a special focus on opportunities for groups to gather casually to exchange experience about areas of special interest including the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the Bahamas, Eastern Caribbean and Panama.