We're 60 Years Young!

Namequoit Sailing Association (NSA) was started in 1950 by a handful of sailors on Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod who all had an interest in racing sail boats.  Their mission statement was to "develop an interest in sailing and to promote a knowledge of safety on the water."  The following year the Junior Sailing Program was started so that their children would learn to sail.  The Junior Sailing Program's mission is to instill the joy of sailing and to teach sailing and racing skills.

NSA is a non-profit organization - we have a membership limited to 60 family memberships and an open Associate membership. We offer racing on the weekends and instruction for junior sailors and adults.

A lot has changed on Cape Cod since 1950 and, oh the stories that our original members tell. We'll be posting a history of the club soon!

The original handful of families all did a lot to get us to today where we have a comfortable clubhouse, a well-respected summer sailing school for kids and adults with a bevy of Hunter and Vanguard school boats, an active summer racing schedule and a year-round slate of fun activities.

Commodores Past and Present

While stuffy and puffy is just not us, we do have the normal compliment of commodores and rear commodores that have given a tremendous amount of time and energy to make the sailing club what it is today!

1955 - 1956 - P. Truman Henson

1957 - 1958 - James S. I. Kidd

1959 - L. Lanier Gray

1960 - Stephen H. Tyng

1961 - 1962 - Charles W. Kessler

1963 - 1964 - Albert J. Walker

1965 - 1966 - Donald H. Powers, Jr.

1967 - Ralph Boas

1968 - 1969 - John Pershing, Jr.

1970 - 1971 - James Clapp

1972 - 1973 - William G. Voorhes

1974 - 1975 - Donald H. Powers, Jr.

1976 - Paulie Powers

1977 - Frances Flynn

1978 - 1979 - Willard C. Salter

1980 - 1981 - Arnold Henson

1982 - 1983 - Gene Spagnoli

1984 - 1985 - Collins M. Pomeroy

1986 - 1987 - John M. Sargent

1988 - 1989 - Freeman A. Flynn

1990 - 1991 - Garner LeStage

1992 - 1994 - Richard LeStage

1995 - 1996 - Louis A. Tonry

1997 - 1998 - Robert Wright

1999 - Peter Dow Campbell, III

2000 - Marilyn Bornemeier

2001 - 2003 - Harry Herrick

2004 - 2005 - Susan Powers

2006 - 2007 - Alan Estabrook

2008 - 2009 - Robert Summersgill

2010 - 2011 - Nathaniel Hammatt

2012 - present - David Quincy