Greetings all,
Memorial Day weekend brings changes to the waters that surround Marblehead and become part of rowers’ lives. Those of us who have paddled them for a while know that it gets busy. Sea temperatures rise and fish travel up the coast from Chesapeake Bay, bringing out the sport fishermen who seek them. Sailing competitions also start. Lobstermen put out more traps and ever more weekend boaters intersect our channels at high speeds, along with ferries and party boats.
To date the Marblehead Rowing Club has a perfect safety record. It’s critical that we keep it, which means maintaining high awareness of others on the water but also being aware of your capabilities in relationship to the conditions of waves, winds and currents. The ocean can be unforgiving, staunch and consuming. It can also be luminous, delicate and tender. We go out in it to come alive and sometimes to clear our heads. But as club shaman Kathie Mazonson has reminded us during many blessings of our fleet, in shells we are humble guests, calling on the ocean’s generosity. Safety first. Holding that reverence through R & R adventures is a good thing in the season ahead.
Jay Paris
Member R & R Board of Directors
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