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.

  The 2016 Flying Scot North American Championships are just a few weeks away, July 16-21, but don;t worry, there's still time to sign up!  There's not a much more beautiful place to sail than Newport, Rhode Island and we are fortunate to be holding our regatta there.  We'll have a chalk talk sponsored by North Sails every day after racing and we'll have some great dinners together.  There are still some  rooms avaialble at reasonable prices at hotels within a few... Read More
The Massabesic Yacht Club in Manchester, New Hampshire, hosted their annual Regatta on September 19th and 20th. The regatta was open to Windmills, Lightnings and Flying Scots. The racers were graced with excellent wind speed of 7-12mph and gusts up to 18mph on Saturday. If you are a lake sailor you know wind shifts can be a challenge and on Saturday the shifts were greater than normal. All fleets completed 4 races on Saturday and many finishes had multiple boats coming across the... Read More
                   Massabesic Yacht Club in Manchester, NH, hosted their first New England Districts with 15 boats from 4 New England fleets - Massabesic, Massapoag, Quannapowitt and Rockport.  We elected our new District Governor, Ned Jeffries and said thanks to our outgoing Governor Skip Miontello who had senved us well for 6 years in the role. After a forecast of thunderstorms threatened to put a damper on things, the weather and... Read More
Here are a few words from Norm and Jane Wainwright, lucky winners of a BRAND NEW Flying Scot in this year's raffle.  The boat has been built by Flying Scot, Inc., and has been picked up at the factory.  The picture is the winners with Harry in their new boat when they picked it up!  Congratulations Norm and Jane! "I'm about to pick up my new Flying Scot next week, and I would like to express my thanks to the FSSA. While this is the first Flying Scot I actually own, our... Read More
  WATCH THEM BUILDING YOUR FLYING SCOT!   Did you ever wonder how Flying Scot, Inc. builds your boat?  Well there's a video that gives you an idea of how the core is built. After watching you will know for sure that it is built piece by piece with tender loving care!     View the video here.     Read More

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