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.
Photo provided by Diane Kampf - Massapoag Yacht Club Teams - Eckarts, Sharps, Kampf, Gary Werden and Brandon Dickerman
Photos by Diane Kampf and Wanda Visnick are here. Full resullts are here.
Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport, MA, hosted the 2023 Flying Scot New England Districts on 7/30/2023. Rockport is a charming New England Town with lots of shops, restaurants, bed and breakfasts and lots of fisherman. It is always fun to visit Rockport and we are lucky that they hold Flying Scot... Read More 
COngratulations to long-time FSSA Member Hank Sykes for being names Sail Newp0ort VOlunteer of the YEar!
From Sail Newport's Facebook Page on 12/9/2020:
"Hank Sykes is one of our most beloved and hardest working volunteers," says Matt Duggan, Sail Newport's regatta director. Hank was presented with the Volunteer of the Year award at tonight's Sail Newport virtual Annual Meeting.
Hank is at nearly every event and often times can be found at Sail Newport helping make improvements to the... Read More 
The day started with a postpone on shore with light and squirrily winds. PRO Gary Werden and crew kept a watchful eye on the weather and we did finally have one race before lunch It was a shortened windward- leeward course and after lunch there just was not enough wind to race. At 4PM the wind filled in from the south and we got in 2 great late afternoon races before calling it a day.
We had a cocktail party followed followed by a round table with BIll Draheim from Quantum Sales and Ryan... Read More 
Photo by Bob Gaffney
We had our practice race tonight for the 2019 FS Women’s NAC at Massapoag Yacht Club in Sharon, MA. Nice breeze and stiff competition with 12 boats registered from 7 different states. Melanie Dunham and Stacey Rieu won the race. We start tomorrow at 9:00 skippers meeting. Can’t wait! 
We have 12 women's teams from 7 states registered to date and we have room for more! There are 5 teams coming from Texas - yeehaw! The Massapoag Yacht Club and Fleet 76 are getting things ready for all of you and we cannot wait to see everyone. If you have not signed up yet, there's still time - the link for registration is here
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