Blue Water Sailing Club

Prospective Members please check out the Membership Info section!

About Blue Water Sailing Club

Founded in 1959 by a group of ardent sailors, the club dedicates itself to safe cruising, racing, boating education, and good fellowship among sailors. We are a family organization with members from Maine to the Chesapeake. The club, which is run entirely by members, is an affordable way to belong to a recognized yachting organization. Our wide range of activities appeal to new boat owners as well as to more experienced sailors and serious offshore racers. The club has no clubhouse, docks, tennis courts, swimming pools or restaurants, but offers its membership a wide array of cruising, racing, informational and social events year round. Currently, our membership includes more than 200 boats from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New York, Connecticut, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Membership

Do you enjoy making new friends who share your interest in sailing? Learning new skills from fellow sailors in a supportive environment? Sailing to new harbors in the company of qualified skippers?

If you’re looking for camaraderie with people who share your love of sailing, and you own a sailboat with a waterline length of 20 feet or longer, we invite you to consider membership in the Blue Water Sailing Club.

Club Activities

Blue Water Sailing Club’s activities include:

All-women’s cruise for one week in June, to refine your existing skills and acquire new ones in a relaxed environment.

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Southern Cruise for two weeks in July to visit warm-water ports and interesting historic areas south of Cape Cod.

Maine Cruise for two weeks in August to explore intensely scenic ports along the Maine coast with lobster bakes, festivals and solitude.

Rendezvous and weekend events throughout the sailing season to gather informally, afloat or ashore, in convenient locations along the New England coast.

Awards banquet in November to acknowledge members' contributions to the club and recount events of the sailing season.

Educational seminars in Boston during the winter months to sharpen your nautical skills. Topics have included CPR, preparing to cruise, sail trim and electronics.

Ski weekend in Northern New England, to maintain friendships while enjoying outdoor activities.

Spring dinner gala in April to learn plans for the upcoming season and greet old and new members.

Group charters overseas to explore the culture of areas such as Greece, the French Riviera, Croatia and the islands of the Caribbean.

Marion-Bermuda Race (co-sponsor) with responsibility for pre-race symposium, sanctioned by US Sailing, to prepare skippers, navigators and crew for an offshore passage.

A Typical BWSC Year

Blue Water's season begins in January. Throughout the winter and spring the Club sponsors a variety of educational programs such as diesel maintenance, electronics, handling medical emergencies at sea, offshore cruising requirements, racing skills, etc. In addition there is a ski weekend and a spring dinner meeting.

Sailing activities begin with the spring race regatta, and continues with cruises to Maine, the southern New England coast and several 3 day weekend events on the 4th of July, Labor Day and Columbus Day holidays. There is also an annual women's only cruise in coastal waters such as New Hampshire, Nantucket and Buzzards Bay.

Blue Water Sailing club is one of the three sponsors of the Marion to Bermuda Race held in odd-numbered years, and often sponsors offshore Canadian cruises in even-numbered years. These have included a cruise to the Gaspe Peninsula in 1986, to Newfoundland in 1991,a Scituate-to-Campobello Race in 1992, cruises to the St. John River in 1994 and 2000, to Passamaquoddy Bay in 1992 and 1998, and several cruises to the Bras D'Or Lakes, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the most recent in 1996.

Occasionally the BWSC has sponsored group sailing charters to places like Turkey (1995), the British Virgin Islands (1997), France (1999), Croatia (2002), and Greece (2005).

The annual meeting and Awards Dinner in November concludes the season.

Contact Information

Postal address: BWSC, c/o Liz Stott, 2253 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA 02466
Electronic mail: General Information: Info@bluewatersc.org
Webmaster: Webmaster@bluewatersc.org