MBYCA - Massachusetts Boating & Yacht Clubs Association, Inc.

10/11/2026

10/11/2026

Wouldn’t this organization be good candidate as an MBYCA member?

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https://www.hinghammaritime.org/events/55th-anniversary-celebration

09/25/2026

Well that was quick :). We look forward to coming back together at our first fall meeting this evening at Squantum Yacht Club. Thank you to the Squantum team for hosting us this evening and for stewarding The MBYCA Lipton cup so beautifully !
Here is a link for SQYC and one of thier past MBYCA lipton cup events :

https://mbyca.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=810794&module_id=748889

Remember one does not need to be a delegate to come to MBYCA meetings and events.. Look forward to seeing you all again this evening

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09/22/2026

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I hope you will take a few minutes to read this thoughtful article by Chris Van Buskirk, which ran on the front page of the print and e-editions of yesterday's Boston Globe. I definitely support the creation of a dedicated fund for land and water conservation, but I am not sure that cannibalizing ex...

09/22/2026

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Satellite imagery showed how the sprawling bloom had 'dramatically intensified' a week ago.

09/18/2026

One long lasting association works with another
To support one another.

A double Boston light swim( The oldest open ocean swim in our nation) With a pair of athletes who we dubbed - the synchronized swimmers for how closely they paced and made this 16 plus mile swim together was a first for a few of us

A excellent and fun support crew with fun and knowledgeable swim offical Rena from Massachusetts Open Water Swim Association capped of another great long distance swim for what was a wonderful season for MOWSA and these athletes

So Well done to these and all the athletes and to the the Mowsa team for making this possible 🙂

09/16/2026

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On February 18, 1952, four Coast Guardsmen took a thirty six foot wooden boat rated for about a dozen people out over the Chatham Bar in a nor'easter. They came back with thirty two men aboard. 🌊

Two tankers broke in half off Cape Cod that same day. The Fort Mercer managed to get a distress call out. The Pendleton did not, because it split so suddenly that nobody had time to reach a radio. Its bow and its stern drifted apart in the dark with most of the crew alive inside the stern section and nobody ashore yet aware they were there at all.

Bernard Webber took out the motor lifeboat CG-36500 with Andrew Fitzgerald, Richard Livesey, and a fourth man who happened to be at the station that day waiting for a ride to his own posting. Crossing the bar the windshield went in and the compass went over the side, so Webber ran the rest of it on dead reckoning through seas reported at forty feet and more. They found the stern in the dark, held the boat under it as it rolled, and took men off a rope ladder one at a time. Thirty two of the thirty three aboard came off. The ship's cook did not. Then they turned a boat built for twelve, carrying thirty six, back toward shore with no compass, and made it.

All four crewmen received the Gold Lifesaving Medal. The boat itself was eventually retired, left to rot, then recovered by volunteers in the 1980s and restored. It is still afloat on Cape Cod, and you can go and stand on the deck that carried thirty six men home. 🚤

Have you come across the Pendleton before, or is it one of those stories that never quite leaves the Cape?

09/10/2026

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09/05/2026

Our friends at Pleasant Park Yacht Club have an amazing band playing tonight, The Local Ward go and check them out!!!