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USCGA San Ramon Valley Flotilla - 11N1291

Welcome to the San Ramon Flotilla of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary!

[Updated Feb 1, 2022] If you are interested in protecting the California maritime environment and in ensuring the safety of people and wildlife within that environment, there's a place in our Flotilla for you! We are volunteers who support the US Coast Guard in their mission to safeguard the United States' maritime environment. We are regular people like you: teachers, nurses, scientists, engineers, students, business people, parents, grandparents, retirees. 

“Flotilla” might be an unfamiliar word for you. The traditional meaning is a group of boats, typically on a joint mission. In the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the “Flotilla” is the smallest organizational unit, typically with 20 to 100 people from a common local area. While our Flotilla is the “San Ramon Flotilla”, we have members from all over the East Bay region of San Francisco Bay, and some from even further afield. Our Flotilla currently has 44 members.

What sorts of things do we do?

The Coast Guard Auxiliary performs many missions in support of the Coast Guard, but our Flotilla is particularly strong in: 

• Maritime Safety Patrols on San Francisco Bay. Protecting and educating people boating, sailing, kite-surfing on the Bay.
• Marine Environment Protection. Cleaning up detritus and damage to the Bay's beautiful shoreline and tributaries. Keeping the environment safe for humans and native species.
• Vessel Examinations. Confirming that private vessels in the Bay are seaworthy and ready for emergencies.
• Public Education. Helping people know how to safely have fun in the marine environment, while also protecting the environment.
• Aviation Patrols. Conducting low-altitude patrols in general aviation aircraft to aid the Coast Guard by looking for and reporting environmental damage, illegal activity, pollution, or abandoned vessels on the California coastline and in the Sacramento River delta.
• Navigation Systems. Monitoring buoys, day marks, bridge lights, etc., especially those that are privately owned
• Auxiliary Chefs. We supplement and relieve Coast Guard Chefs on Cutters and land stations.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson