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Advancing maritime education on Martha’s Vineyard ~~ www.sailmv.org
FALL 2019
Sail Mobility MV: New Initiative Launches
A ndy Nutton, director of programs
at Sail Martha’s Vineyard, spent some
of his early years as director of sailing at the
Royal Hospital School in Suffolk, England,
and he came away from that experience
with lasting memories of the sailing
center next door. It was the Wolverton
Project, one of what are now more than
200 recognized sites in the Royal Yachting
Association’s Sailability program, which
enables people with disabilities to try
sailing and to take part regularly.
It wasn’t long after his arrival on the
Vineyard in the summer of 2017 that
Nutton started looking for ways to bring a
similar program to Sail Martha’s Vineyard.
“At the disabled sailing center right next
to us,” he recalls, “I would see kids and adults
from the most able to the least able, going
out in boats and having a great time. It was
such a positive thing, their favorite thing.
And for the families, two things happened:
They were elated to see their loved ones or Out for a summer sail with Sail Mobility MV.
friends getting out on the water and having
a wonderful time, and they would also have was to see whether the campers enjoyed it, and whether our
time to be with like-minded people, people with similar life staff would be comfortable doing it. It was a big success. Then
experiences, and this sense of community was built. I had the we did a little tour of the Lagoon on a power boat with kids
utmost respect for that whole program.” from Island Autism, and they loved it.”
At Sail MV, Nutton learned the organization’s genesis The next step was to see whether such a program could be
story—how a small group of people saw that too many Island scalable for Sail MV. Over the winter of 2018 and in the spring
children lacked access to on-the-water experiences, and started of 2019, the organization found grant money from the Tower
a program of free summer lessons in 1992. Expanding that Foundation. Both Camp Jabberwocky and Island Autism
program now to include another under-served group in the became corporate members of Sail Martha’s Vineyard. And
Island community makes perfect sense, he says: more funds specifically for this new program were raised at this
“Coming here that first summer, I saw how our operations summer’s Seafood Buffet & Auction.
were run and the people we were reaching. I learned about In the summer of 2019, Sail Mobility made its debut with 16
Camp Jabberwocky, and I learned about Island Autism Group, free two-hour trips out on the water with Island Autism, and
and I thought: We should be doing something. This would be eight with the campers of Jabberwocky. “And everyone,” says
really simple for us to do.” Nutton, “had the most wonderful time.
The program now named Sail Mobility MV began modestly “The boat would heel over and someone would go, ‘Ahh! What’s
in the summer of 2018, with a few trial-run outings with wrong?’ and somebody else would go, ‘Wheee!’ It was great.”
campers from Camp Jabberwocky and young people from the
Kevin McGrath, who serves on the board of Island Autism and
autism group. It was clear from the very beginning, Nutton
is librarian at the high school, says Sail Mobility MV has been a
says, that Sail MV was onto something powerful and positive.
great addition to the after-school and summer programs his group
“We started with Camp Jabberwocky with two test
offers for about 20 young people with autism on the Vineyard.
afternoons on our Rhodes 19 that summer,” he says. “The idea
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A Fine First Summer for Sail Mobility MV
— from page 1 and he loved it. It was so great to see him gain that confidence.”
“A lot of times,” says McGrath, “autistic kids would “I think Sail Mobility MV is the most exciting thing
just be sitting at home if they weren’t given these kinds of that’s happened at this organization in 2019,” says
opportunities. There’s nothing else like what Sail MV is John Kettlewell, executive director of Sail MV. “This
offering—it’s just a wonderful program.” organization exists because almost thirty years ago, some
He recalls one boy who refused to get on the sailboat on his people thought it was just wrong that here we are, living on
first outing to the harbor this summer. “He was so nervous. He an Island, and some kids only get to experience the water
ended up watching from shore with one of our staff, and the when they ride the ferry here. Sail Mobility MV is the
whole time he was saying, ‘I want to go!’ We said, ‘Hey, we tried perfect extension of that idea, giving new groups the chance
to get you onboard. Next time!’ That Friday he got on the boat, to experience and enjoy the water.”
Rowing Club: ‘We’re Crazy About Rowing’
I f you’re on the ferry at any season, than a dozen years. The club has about
you’ve seen them: teams of six or seven 40 active rowers, who take the rowing
rowers, rhythmically gliding across gig out on the water every morning,
boats, built in a workshop near Five
Corners and launched in 2005 and 2006.
Each fall Grace is hauled for maintenance
Vineyard Haven Harbor. And if you’ve sometimes twice in a morning, and on and Cassie serves as the club’s winter
thought to yourself, “I’d like to do that several afternoons each week. rowing boat. “Sail MV takes care of the
someday,” you’re not alone. Rowers dress for the weather and go out maintenance,” says Villa, “and we’re really
Terre Young has been rowing with Sail at all times of year, except on days when grateful for that.”
Martha’s Vineyard’s Row MV group for it’s especially cold or windy. The club’s It’s a diverse group of Islanders who
nearly four years now, share a love for
ever since retiring as their weekly
director of Hospice rowing trips—for
of Martha’s Vineyard. some they’re thrice-
Over breakfast with weekly outings
crewmates after a and more. And
Saturday morning for most rowers
outing in mid- it seems to be a
October, she recalls habit that endures.
driving to and from “We’ve got people
work, looking out at like Jean Lewellyn
the harbor and seeing who actually
the 32-foot Cornish helped build the
pilot gig Grace on the boats,” says Villa.
water in summer and “Aase Jones is in
its sister gig, Cassie, Rowing across Vineyard Haven harbor with Jude Villa at the tiller. her eighties and
in the winter. still rowing with
“I’d see the rowers,” she says, “and I’d say thresholds for cancellation are 20 degrees us—she helped build the boats, too.”
to myself, ‘I’m going to do that.’ Joining the or 20 knots of wind, but Villa emphasizes, And Wendy Gray, who’s been rowing
rowing club was one of the first things I did “It’s the cox’s call on the beach.” since Grace was launched in 2005, leads
when I retired and had the time.” Crewmate Ulrike Wartner, who joined a youth rowing program with the club’s
It’s great exercise, an encounter with the rowing club when she moved to the gigs for the Charter School.
nature and the changing seasons, a Island year-round in 2015, says that rowing Jude Villa says the rowers have a ready
nourishing social experience, and an with five or six teammates involves an answer for folks who wonder at them
important element of structure to her element of commitment that’s powerful. for venturing out on chilly mornings in
week, Young says, adding: “One of the “At 5 o’clock in the morning when you’re in January and February. “People say to us,
things I missed most after retiring from a warm bed in the wintertime and you have ‘You go out in the winter when it’s below
Hospice was being part of a team. This to get up to row, truthfully, you would not freezing? You’re crazy!’ And we say, ‘Yes,
satisfies that completely for me.” go out on the water if you weren’t letting we’re crazy—we’re crazy about rowing.’”
Jude Villa, coxswain of the Saturday down the other members of your team. But If you’re interested in joining the adult
morning boat, chairs the rowing you do go, and once the boat starts moving rowing program or going for a free trial
committee for Row MV of Sail MV, there are no regrets.” row, please contact the Sail MV office at
and has been with the program for more Grace and Cassie are classic wooden 508-696-7644.
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Sail Martha’s Vineyard’s new Teras arrived this summer, and had an immediate effect supporting the Sail MV syllabus.
Additions to Fleet Advance SMV Programs
T he enrollment numbers from
Sail MV’s summer 2019 program
tell a fascinating story. In 2018, Island
to teach sailing, Nutton says, has been
transformative.
Each sailboat is a teaching platform
harbor work boats, says Nutton, but
far from ideal as safety craft: “Having
worked in the watersports industry for
kids accounted for just 24 percent of the that needs to be appropriate for the 20 years, I’m aware of the importance of
students enrolled in the first levels of paid learning child, he explains. And without safety boats that are maneuverable, boats
courses in the summer syllabus. In 2019 the Fevas and Teras as stepping-stones that are quick and safe at the same time,
that number jumped to 76 percent—even along the way, the jump from entry-level boats that are easy to handle and resilient
as overall enrollment was up for the year. Optimist prams to racing 420s (raced in to the conditions they’re put in.” The
“That was a huge change,” says Andy competition by the high school varsity Whalys are quick and maneuverable with
Nutton, director of programs for Sail team) was just too big for many kids. one or two people on board, safe and
Martha’s Vineyard. “People were seeing Sail MV now puts a fleet of sailboats out stable with eight. They’re stackable in the
that their kids had an absolute ball in the on the water every summer day that offers off-season, they cut Sail MV’s fuel use by
free introductory classes, and they were a natural progression for children as they a third this summer, and the faculty and
saying, ‘This is worth $300 for two more learn. “We saw development in children students love them. And by selling skiffs
weeks.’ I think it shows that people on this summer who started with Messing to fund their acquisition, Sail MV even
the Vineyard are now seeing our program Around in Boats in our prams, and at the saw a modest profit.
as so much more than a summer child end of two weeks were doing things in the The Whalys, says Nutton, are “both
care option.” Teras that they never could have managed. terrific safety boats and teaching
Much of this change is thanks to the They go out in these boats—they might platforms. We used them for programs
new syllabus Sail MV has introduced, fall over but they get right back up again, like our introduction to marine ecology,
which takes a rigorous approach to the climb in and sail off without bailing, taking kids out to see the osprey nests and
instruction of sailing skills without losing without worrying about the boat sinking. the shellfish hatchery. And our teachers
the element of sheer fun—“for the kids to And they go faster, which of course is what took them out to work with kids in the
participate,” says Nutton, “it has to be cool.” the kids want to do.” windsurfing classes.”
And for the kids, going fast is One more change this summer was In their bright rescue-orange color, Sail
definitely cool. This is where the new fleet the replacement of Sail MV’s flatiron MV’s new safety boats are impossible to
introduced by Sail MV over the past years skiffs with bright orange safety boats miss. Sail MV’s director, John Kettlewell,
has made a difference. built by the Dutch manufacturer, Whaly. is as delighted with the Whalys as Andy
Sail MV added half a dozen RS Feva Five brand-new Whaly 370 rescue boats Nutton. “I think it’s neat,” he says, “that
sailboats to its instructional fleet in the were delivered to Sail MV in June, and we have safety boats that are actually
summer of 2017, and this year introduced they were out all summer patrolling the safety boats now. This addition has
eleven RS Teras. The effect of these new Lagoon when classes were underway. increased the safety of our summer classes,
boats on his summer faculty’s ability The heavy flatiron skiffs are great and that’s really important.”
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Varsity Sailing Team Piles up the Victories
A ndrew Burr, coach of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional
High School varsity sailing team since 2006, has enjoyed
watching his young sailors become the team that nobody wants
team’s consistent success, he says, is the farm team program also
operated by Sail MV, which cultivates young sailors who show
an interest in racing in their middle-school years.
to race. “Year in and year out,” he says, “we’re as good as it gets, On the last weekend of September, Sail Martha’s Vineyard
program-wise. We work hard to get those kids who do want to and the regional high school hosted some 80 student-athletes
race where they need to be in order to compete. And these kids from 11 schools on Lagoon Pond for the Arnold Brown
really know how to sail.” Invitational Regatta. This event, which honors the late Arnold
In his 14th year of coaching the Vineyarders, Burr can still Brown for his support of high school and junior sailing on the
wax rhapsodic describing a perfectly executed roll tack, or the Vineyard, is a qualifier for the ISSA Mallory Doublehanded
sequence of moves that wins a team race. But he sounds even Championship, the premier racing event of the fall. The
happier describing the group of young people he’s working with Vineyarders won, qualifying for the Mallory for the first
on the water this year. time ever. And thanks to a second-place finish in a qualifying
“This is one of the best teams I’ve coached,” he says. “It’s not race at Sail Black Rock in Bridgeport, Conn., on Sept. 14,
the Vineyarders are also
headed to New Orleans, the
week before Thanksgiving,
to sail in the Great Oaks
Invitational Regatta, a
national one-division event
limited to 30 schools and one
boat each.
Hosting the Arnold Brown
Regatta, says Coach Burr, was
“a good day, a lot of work, a
lot of fun.” Two members of
Burr’s team, Zach Ward and
Miles Wolff, took turns that
day racing and helping out
with Sail MV’s work hosting
the event. “Having a second
safety boat out there all day
was huge, a big help,” says the
coach. “I’ve never had kids
before who were licensed and
capable of doing that work
with me.”
The Vineyarders’
convincing win at the Arnold
Brown Regatta also gives
the team confidence as it
looks toward the spring high
Rounding the first mark: High school varsity sailors in team racing competition against Sharon on the Lagoon. school racing season of 2020.
Last year Martha’s Vineyard
just the competition. First and foremost, I’d say it’s that they all finished the season with a number 11 ranking in New England.
love hanging out together. They all get along very well. They all Looking ahead, says Coach Burr, “We’re aiming to qualify for
love sailing.” the Mark Trophy (now called the President’s Trophy).” That
And the results of that chemistry have been impressive. In event is reserved for the top eight racing teams in all New
two weekends of competition this May at the Hyannis Yacht England.
Club, the Vineyard varsity first won the Cape and Islands Team “All of us at Sail MV are proud of the Vineyard high school
Racing title, and then the Cape and Islands Fleet Racing title. team and its accomplishments,” says John Kettlewell, the
It’s something the Vineyarders have never done before, and director of Sail Martha’s Vineyard. This organization provides
that accomplishment helped qualify them for entry in the Terk the sailboats and the Boston Whalers that chase after them, the
Trophy competition in Maine later that month. gear from wetsuits to life jackets, and all the shore-side facilities
Coach Burr lost seniors Katie Morse, Christian Schmidt, that support the team in its sailing on the Lagoon.
and Alex Nagle to graduation in June, but his team has lost Coach Burr states it simply: “This program wouldn’t exist
none of its winning momentum this fall. One secret of the without Sail MV.”
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Arriving in a New Port: Reflections on
An Eventful First Year with Sail MV
All smiles at the water’s edge — a reminder of why we do our work at Sail Martha’s Vineyard.
M y introduction to Sail Martha’s Vineyard began
inauspiciously when I needed a 5 a.m. wakeup call to catch
the first ferry out of Woods Hole prior to a November 2018 gale.
the mantra of water people everywhere. Those who venture off
the beach and onto the water instantly sense they are now in a
place where nature rules. Yes, it is beautiful and often peaceful,
Despite the lashing rain I was met at the Vineyard Haven dock by but the next storm may be about to blast up Vineyard Sound,
Peggy Schwier, president of Sail MV, and we were soon having a we need to make sure the current is favorable in Woods Hole,
delicious hot breakfast at and the anchor has to be properly shackled to the rode. To
the Black Dog. All that know those things we depend on a network of water people
day the rain and wind who work together: meteorologists, harbormasters, the Coast
reminded me we were Guard, fellow boaters, the people who build and repair our
offshore on an island, an boats, the person who writes the GPS software, and on and on.
appropriate backdrop to Sail MV depends on the support of a network of Islanders to
a day of introductions help us teach how to make that first tentative row off the beach
and interviews for a that leads to raising sail and navigating first the Lagoon and
job with a mission to maybe the ocean beyond. I am proud to be helping Islanders
connect islanders with connect to the sea.
the sea. “How can you help?” Please consider donating to Sail MV
That first cheerful knowing that the ferry captain was once a child rowing off the
greeting by Peggy in the beach for the first time, those oysters you love came thanks
Onboard my sailboat, Minke. midst of the storm has to someone who navigated around the Island, and just about
since been reinforced by everything in your home is there because a network of water
the many people I have met all over the Island who both share people worked together. Thanks so much for your support.
a passion for the Island and the sea, and a desire to provide
opportunities for others to experience the maritime world that
surrounds us. When I’m asked what brought me here, and they
hear that I’m working for Sail MV, the inevitable response is,
“How can I help?” John Kettlewell
In my sailing travels from Labrador to South America, that’s Executive Director
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Thank You for Supporting Sail Martha’s Vineyard
S ail Martha’s Vineyard depends on generous donations
from individuals, foundations, corporations, small businesses, and
government grants. We are extremely grateful for every donation, whether
Cohn Family Fund
Matt Cramer
Sherrie Cutler and Bob Donahue
Nelia and Chris Decker
it is an in-kind gift of goods and services, or a monetary contribution. The Donna and James Dixon
following individuals and organizations made monetary donations. We Helena and Mark Foster
apologize for any omissions. Peter Getsinger
Giuseppe Daniele Greco
Kenda and Clayton Henke
$30,000 + Bruce and Jean Lewellyn John Hess
Melinda Loberg Robert F. Higgins
The Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Jill and Ken Iscol
Foundation Josh Luckhurst
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Blake Middletown and Martha Eddy Virginia Jones
$10,000-$25,000 Priscilla C. and Daniel P. Karnovsky
Edward F. Miller
Anonymous Nora and John Kerr
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Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Parthenia and Christopher Kiersted
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Vineyard Tammy King
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Susan Rappaport Alida Near
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services that helped make our summer events and
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Black Dog Winter
Dinner-Lecture
Series Begins
In January
Specifics on speakers are still being
lined up, but please join us for the Black
Dog Winter Dinner and Lecture Series.
You’ll enjoy a fascinating maritime
presentation in the warm atmosphere at the
Black Dog Tavern along with a delicious
dinner. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. with the
lecture scheduled for a 6:45 p.m. start.
Reservations are strongly suggested, as
these programs usually sell out. Tickets may
be purchased online at www.sailmv.org. Save The Dates!
This year’s dinner-lecture events will be
held on the following dates: 28th Annual Seafood Buffet
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 & Auction: July 9, 2020
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020
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