New England
New England
The New England District is in the Northeast region and encompasses Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island.
Our active fleets in Massachusetts are located at Rockport (Sandy Bay Yacht Club), Duxbury (Duxbury Bay Yacht Club), Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield (Quannapowitt Yacht Club), and Lake Massapoag in Sharon (Massapoag Yacht Club), as well as at Harwich Port (Stone Horse Yacht Club) and Chatham (Pleasant Bay Community Boating) on Cape Cod. Our New Hampshire fleets are located at Lake Massabesic in Manchester (Massabesic Yacht Club), Spofford Lake in Spofford (Spofford Yacht Club), and Lake Sunapee in Sunapee (Lake Sunapee Cruising Fleet).
Our District Governor is Dennis Dobe from Fleet 196, at Massabesic Lake in NH. The New England District is the home to FSSA Chief Measurer Roger Sharp, FSSA Web Editor Diane Kampf and Scots 'n' Water Editor Tim Mallette
The New England District has a Facebook group here.
Follow Massapoag Yacht Club's Fleet 76 on Facebook here.
by Richard Obst, Fleet 196 Captain
The New England District event was hosted by the Massabesic Yacht Club at Lake Massabesic in Auburn, NH and was planned early in the year (for us Northerners). This may be one of the reasons the event was lightly attended. Often you have to choose race dates early before the race calendar is completely booked and the thought was to make this a tune-up race for upcoming Northeast events including the North American Championship in Connecticut.... Read More 
New England District winners Peter and James McAvoy! Thanks to Jack McGowan and Stone Horse Yacht Club for hosting. We had 5 awesome races in 15-17 MPH North Winds for the first few races then laying down to about 12. There was a yummy cookout with lots of fixings, it was mostly sunny and in the 70’s - just awesome! Full results here.
Looking for Wind - by Chuck Nicolosi, FS 5122
Lake Champlain is an awesome sailing venue that provided an excellent playground for our Flying Scot cruise. Jan Reimers (4134) and Tim Mallette (1777) were on the planning committee that organized one of two cruising options, the other being in Michigan.
There were four boats in our flotilla. We met at the launching ramp in Colchester, VT on Sunday, rigged our boats and sailed around a small peninsula to our home dock. The... Read More 
Massabesic Yacht Club in Manchester, NH, hosted the 2021 New England Districts on 8/28/2021. It was a bit cloudy with highs in the 70's so we dresed in layers to be ready if it warmed up. It warmed up a little but the clouds stayed. With mostly easetrly winds 5-10 MPH, with Larry Christian as PRO, we had 5 great races, and could have done more with the conditions we had! There were 11 boats, 4 from Massapoag and 7 from Massabesic. In the end, the Massapoag teams took the top 4... Read More 
Flying Scot 2021 Wife Husband - 4 races today and we're calling it a regatta before Hurricane Henri gets here. We had a great sunny, pleasant day in the 80's with SW winds 5-8 occasionally 10. Winners of the Championship Division are Jeff and Amy Linton and the Challenger Division winners are David and Marilyn Archibald. I want to thank Massapoag Yacht Club for supporting this fun regatta and we hope to see some of you at the NERD in a little over a month!
Results are here
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