Now available! - The December edition of our award winning newsletter, The Helmsman. Go to our Newsletters page or click here.

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   Just in! - Photos from our Annual Coast Guard Holiday Party. Go to our Gallery page or click here.

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President's Message

Broward Council Members and Friends A Happy 2026 for everyone. It was a busy 2025 for our Council with Fleet Week coming back to Port Everglades. Fleet Week was an outstanding series of events put together by J.W. and his team of volunteers (led by Shelley) that our Council was proud to support. Unfortunately, there will be no Fleet Week 2026 in Port Everglades due to the world activities limiting the availability of US Navy ships and Navy commitments in other ports as part of the celebration of our Nation's 250th anniversary, but we look forward to Fleet Week 2027 coming back to South Florida. We also had a great turnout in December at our annual Coast Guard Holiday Party at the Quarterdeck that we jointly sponsor with the Fort Lauderdale Council and Broward Navy Days, and good times were had by all. We started 2026 with our January dinner meeting where we installed our officers for 2026 and heard from CWO2 Brad Bishop, the Commanding Officer of the USCGC BERNARD C WEBBER, one of our four adopted Fast Response Cutters at Base Miami Beach. Brad was able to fill us in on the many missions of the cutter that have kept them very busy off our coasts and in the Caribbean. Our Council also formally adopted the USCGC WINSLOW GRIESER, a Fast Response Cutter that recently moved to Miami to take the place of the USCGC PAUL CLARK that is now in the shipyard for a major overhaul. Our next dinner meeting will be on March 12th at Tropical Acres, with Joe Farrell, Jr., US Coast Guard Vietnam veteran and owner of Resolve Marine, as our guest speaker. Also, please mark your calendars for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Barbeque for Coast Guard families on Saturday March 28th at Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale. More to follow on both events as the dates gets closer. It is also that time of year when we ask our members to pay their voluntary local dues. All local dues go towards supporting our adopted unit and youth programs, so please do consider a contribution. In closing, this is your Council, so please do let me know if you have any questions, comments, or ideas on what we should focus on. Best regards, Glenn A. Wiltshire Capt. USCG retired Council President

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Local Dues Have you sent yours in yet?     Each year, we ask our members to pay local dues for our Council and if possible make an additional donation.  Your local dues provide direct financial support to the Council which enables us to carry on our mission here in South Florida. As we have done in the past, we are providing a registration form that enables members to designate additional funds to be used for Council activities. The form lists the names of the military units we support as well as several major events we host. We hope that you might consider making a donation along with your dues in order to help us to continue these activities.  The form for this purpose is available by clicking here. New! - This year in addition to writing a check, our Treasurer has set up the means to send in our dues using the internet and a credit card. To take advantage of this new feature simply click here! However you decide to contribute, we hope you will be able to complete this New Year's chore soon. With the pandemic and other changes, some of the traditional revenue sources we have enjoyed over the years are no longer available to us. Thus making local dues more important than ever.

   All of our Newsletters are available online! - Past and present editions of our award winning newsletter, the Helmsman, are available on our newsletters page.

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