slips available for 2012
Community Rowing & Sailing
Participate in New Bedford's Water Borne Community Programs
Whaleboats & Rowing
Row in replicas of the very same 28-foot whaleboats designed and built in New Bedford during the 19th century or choose modern day shells.
Azorean Maritime Heritage Society
P.O. Box 40942
New Bedford, MA 02744
(508) 997-3941
www.azoreanwhaleboats.com
Victor Pinheiro
vcp@luzoauto.com
Buzzards Bay Rowing Club
P.O. Box 86
Fairhaven, MA 02719
(508) 961-5955
www.buzzardsbayrowing.org
Heidi Hacking
hacking@southcoast.org
New Bedford Community Rowing
New Bedford is partnering with Community Rowing Inc. of Boston to help bring the sport of rowing to the Acushnet River, benefiting the lives of the city’s school children and residents and reconnecting New Bedford to an important part of its history. Launch ramps have been built and groundbreaking for the boathouse, which will be based on designs by MIT students, is expected in 2011.
Quest Center
1213 Purchase St.
New Bedford, MA 02740
508 717-4013
www.newbedfordcommunityrowing.org
Carolyn McGonagle
Carolyn@communityrowing.org
Whaling City Rowing
This local rowing club is a non-profit organization dedicated to making open water rowing accessible to people of all ages and income levels. Club members row 28-foot long fiberglass whaleboats - replicas of nineteenth century whale boats. After school programs and summer day camps provide instruction to the region’s young people throughout the year.
P.O. Box 40625
New Bedford, MA 02744
508.517.1251
http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/
Liz Labelle
whalingcityrowing.row@gmail.com
Youth & Adult Sailing Programs
Community Boating Center of New Bedford (CBC)
Community Boating Center of New Bedford provides instruction and access to recreational boating for all, with an emphasis on children, without regard to financial situation. Our instruction promotes water safety, navigation, boat handling, seamanship, and knowledge of the “rules of the road” within a safe boating environment.
1641 Padanaram Ave
New Bedford, MA 02740
(508) 992-6219
www.communityboating.org
Peter Durant, Executive Director
pdurant@communityboating.org
Youth Boat Building
Green Fleet, Inc.
122-124 North Front Street (boat shop)
46 Pearl St. (office)
New Bedford, MA 02740
(508) 971-6598
www.greenfleetonline.org
Christian Smith
christiansmith@greenfleetonline.org
Yacht Clubs
Low Tide Yacht Club
Meeting facility with full kitchen
Fort Taber
1000B Rodney French Blvd.
New Bedford, MA
(774) 451-5748
Racing Events:
(813) 545-2789