MIT Sailing Pavillion Dock Work

The MIT Sailing Pavilion is having its dock rebuilt and new floating dock system installed. The project started today and will continue for about 5 weeks. While construction is underway, 17 tech dinghies have been strung together and are moored in parallel with with the front face of the dock. We would prefer to moor them in front of the dock instead of along the granite wall to minimize damage if the string breaks. Granite always seems to win out over fiberglass in extended durability tests.

If you feel that the boats are in any way a hazard to navigation, please let me know directly and we will find a solution immediately. Right now they are about 20 yards off the pavilion and in my twenty plus years of experience, I have never seen a crew shell in this close.  They are actually inside the Charles River YC profile.

Feel free to check out our webcams to get a better sense of what is going on in real time. This might be a helpful tool to use to better understand actual breeze and wave conditions in the lower basin on a daily basis. We all know that the weather forecasts are rarely accurate.

http://sailing.mit.edu/webcam.php

Franny Charles
MIT Sailing Master

Jack Wood Sailing Pavilion

3 Ames St.

Cambridge, MA 02142

http://sailing.mit.edu/