Sacramento Sea Kayakers (formerly Sierra Sea Kayakers) was the vision of our Founder and first President, Kathy McCarley.  SSK started out as an informal group getting together for paddles, but the numbers grew rapidly and in 2003 we started to formalize the group into a club, and wrote up the by-laws and club policies.

                                          Our Mission Statement was created:

“To promote the Sport of Sea Kayaking in a manner that places emphasis on Safety and Personal Responsibility.” 

 … And our first Logo was created by Cyndi Murdoch.

The first Board members were as follows: 

Kathy McCarley, President

Bob Shertz, Vice President

Richard Welch, Treasurer

Krista Harvell,  Secretary

John Terry,  Member at Large          

Kathy moved out of state, so the next year was in constant change with Richard Welch being President for a couple of months, and Jeff Bedford took over for him for awhile, and finally Krista Harvell moved into the Presidency. All the Board Members switched positions around during the year. John Terry remained as Member at Large through all the changes, and Bob Shertz became our Webmaster. After settling, the new board members were as follow:

The Board members in 2004 were:

                Krista Harvell, President

Marty Dibble, Vice President

Richard Welch, Treasurer

Murdoch, Secretary

Terry, Member at Large

In 2008, SSK was due for another major change. We officially changed our name to Sacramento Sea Kayakers to better identify us with our geographic area and to avoid confusion with another kayaking group. This led to designing our current web site and logo for the new SSK.  Bob Shertz retired, but did the templates for the set up of our site and Doug Jensen took over the  Webmaster position. The current logo was designed by Marty Dibble and Joyce Bayer.

Also in 2008, two Board Members’ terms were up, so a new treasurer and secretary were voted for.     

                                                                     The new Board Members as of  2008:                                                                  

Justine Bunnell, Secretary

Joyce Bayer, Treasurer

Krista Harvell, President

Marty Dibble, Vice President 

John Terry, Member at Large