Skippers, Rosemary Lake has become heavily weeded, so it was decided to check out Buckmaster Pond, in Westwood, MA, as an alternate sailing site.  Paul Mercer, Herb Dreher and I went there last Friday to decide if it was acceptable.  We found a large pond with about 30 yards of pebbly beach.  The pond was largely weed free (much, much better than Rosemary).  There is a parking lot next to a large lawn area which is between the parking lot and the beach where we will said.  You will have to wade-in to launch, but the pond bottom is firm.  We think it is a good place to try out next weekend for the double DF95 Series regattas.  

Again, next Sunday, starting at 10:00am, we will be racing DF95’s at Buckmaster Pond, not Rosemary Lake.  See you there!

Buckmaster Pond is on Pond Road off of Route 109 in Westwood.  It is a little over 2 miles from where Route 109 intersects with highway 95/128, if you want to come on the highway.

Cliff Martin,
Commodore

Skippers, the US1M Series regatta last weekend encountered unprecedented amounts of weed all around the pond.  The green mark on the left side of the course is completely surrounded for several feet by weed, and has been for a couple of weeks.  What caused the most problem was the amount of weed that was present below the surface of the water and couldn’t be seen or avoided.  Every boat got burdened with weed multiple times, to the point where sailors felt they no longer wanted to race if this was going to be the weed situation going forward.  Our only recourse seems to be to find another venue.

Tomorrow, Paul Mercer and I (and possibly Herb Dreher) will be checking out a site called Buckmaster Pond in Westwood, MA.  I’ve gotten permission from the Town of Westwood to use the pond, and if it looks passible we are going to try and hold our twin DF-95 Series regattas there on the 23^rd of this month.  I’m hoping this will be a good site and it doesn’t cause any skipper problems getting to the site.  After we check out the site, if it’s “good-to-go” I’ll send out directions to the site.

Let me know if you have any other ideas.

Thanks,

Cliff Martin,

Commodore, MmMYC