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Kite Surfing Boston Biography
Where to Kite Surf in Boston: Head for Pleasure Bay and City Point, Just Ten Minutes from the City
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Oct 10, 2008 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
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Kite surfers new to Boston and Cambridge have a wide variety of spots to choose from come time to drop their boards in the water, rig up their kites and be on their way.
Students attending Boston University, Boston College, MIT, Tufts and Harvard University, hardcharging MBA types from the Harvard Business School and the Sloan school at MIT --- visiting and resident kite surfers alike head first to South Boston's City Point. This fine sailing area is accessible by car, subway and bus (the T). It's convenient to Boston's sailor neighborhoods: the South End, Back Bay, North End, Brighton, Allston, Dorchester, Charlestown. Somerville and Cambridge are just a twenty-minute drive away.
City Point's Pleasure Bay and the adjacent waters that extend from the South Boston yacht club across Boston Harbor to Thompson Island are the city's most popular, easy-to-access places. Parking is free. The beaches and water are clean. Windy days find upwards of a few dozen kite sailors running the conga line in Pleasure Bay or ripping it up outside in harbor on the other side of the causeway.
To get to Pleasure Bay, follow Day Boulevard past UMass Boston, Boston College High School, and the yacht clubs of South Boston. After the last yacht club on your right you'll find the large parking lots and beaches of City Point and Pleasure Bay.
More advanced sailors congregate in the southwest corner of the bay, especially when winds are from the southwest at 15 to 20 knots.
Sailing close to the causeway wall that separates Pleasure Bay from Boston Harbor, local hotshots use the flat water and wind along the wall to launch aerials, flips, twists, transitions.
The advantages of the corner are its proximity to parking, its wide swath of smooth sand for rigging, its ample beach for standing around with other sailors and schmoozing.
Sailors new to the sport or still learning, on the other hand, tend to launch from the more northerly corners of the bay, where the ability to control your kite and avoid collisions isn't as crucial as it is in busier southwest corner of the bay.
Kite sailing is best at City Point and Pleasure Bay in spring and summer southwesterlies and the powerful northeasterlies of fall and late spring.
While most sail bay to take advantage of its smooth and protected water, others the rough water, bigger swell and steeper chop of Boston Harbor off adjacent City Point.
Alternatives to Pleasure Bay during northwesterlies are nearby M and N Street Beaches, a half mile away, towards the L Street Bathhouse and Carson Beach. The fetch is open, the wind less gusty. Downside is that northwesterlies blow offshore, complicating gear breakdowns or your inability to relaunch your kite.
To access the area, park on Day Boulevard beach side.
For those without cars, City Point and Pleasure Bay are accessible via the Red Line subway and bus. General driving directions are MassPike East, the Southeast Expressway, South Boston's Broadway and downtown Boston's Summer Street.
Note that during the summer, when most local kite surfers head to Cape Cod anyway, kite sailing and windsurfing are restricted until after 5:00 pm on Pleasure Bay and City Point.
About the writer: sea kayaking guide Adam Bolonsky writes frequently about the outdoors for Sea Kayaking Dot Net and NorthAmericanKayakFishing.
This story was written via dictation using a Zoom H2 digital voice recorder, Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred and a MacBook booted in Windwows XP via Boot Camp. I recommend all three!
Kite Surfing Boston Biography
Where to Kite Surf in Boston: Head for Pleasure Bay and City Point, Just Ten Minutes from the City
Dave Williams
Dave Williams, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Oct 10, 2008 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
More:
Boston
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Kite surfers new to Boston and Cambridge have a wide variety of spots to choose from come time to drop their boards in the water, rig up their kites and be on their way.
Students attending Boston University, Boston College, MIT, Tufts and Harvard University, hardcharging MBA types from the Harvard Business School and the Sloan school at MIT --- visiting and resident kite surfers alike head first to South Boston's City Point. This fine sailing area is accessible by car, subway and bus (the T). It's convenient to Boston's sailor neighborhoods: the South End, Back Bay, North End, Brighton, Allston, Dorchester, Charlestown. Somerville and Cambridge are just a twenty-minute drive away.
City Point's Pleasure Bay and the adjacent waters that extend from the South Boston yacht club across Boston Harbor to Thompson Island are the city's most popular, easy-to-access places. Parking is free. The beaches and water are clean. Windy days find upwards of a few dozen kite sailors running the conga line in Pleasure Bay or ripping it up outside in harbor on the other side of the causeway.
To get to Pleasure Bay, follow Day Boulevard past UMass Boston, Boston College High School, and the yacht clubs of South Boston. After the last yacht club on your right you'll find the large parking lots and beaches of City Point and Pleasure Bay.
More advanced sailors congregate in the southwest corner of the bay, especially when winds are from the southwest at 15 to 20 knots.
Sailing close to the causeway wall that separates Pleasure Bay from Boston Harbor, local hotshots use the flat water and wind along the wall to launch aerials, flips, twists, transitions.
The advantages of the corner are its proximity to parking, its wide swath of smooth sand for rigging, its ample beach for standing around with other sailors and schmoozing.
Sailors new to the sport or still learning, on the other hand, tend to launch from the more northerly corners of the bay, where the ability to control your kite and avoid collisions isn't as crucial as it is in busier southwest corner of the bay.
Kite sailing is best at City Point and Pleasure Bay in spring and summer southwesterlies and the powerful northeasterlies of fall and late spring.
While most sail bay to take advantage of its smooth and protected water, others the rough water, bigger swell and steeper chop of Boston Harbor off adjacent City Point.
Alternatives to Pleasure Bay during northwesterlies are nearby M and N Street Beaches, a half mile away, towards the L Street Bathhouse and Carson Beach. The fetch is open, the wind less gusty. Downside is that northwesterlies blow offshore, complicating gear breakdowns or your inability to relaunch your kite.
To access the area, park on Day Boulevard beach side.
For those without cars, City Point and Pleasure Bay are accessible via the Red Line subway and bus. General driving directions are MassPike East, the Southeast Expressway, South Boston's Broadway and downtown Boston's Summer Street.
Note that during the summer, when most local kite surfers head to Cape Cod anyway, kite sailing and windsurfing are restricted until after 5:00 pm on Pleasure Bay and City Point.
About the writer: sea kayaking guide Adam Bolonsky writes frequently about the outdoors for Sea Kayaking Dot Net and NorthAmericanKayakFishing.
This story was written via dictation using a Zoom H2 digital voice recorder, Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred and a MacBook booted in Windwows XP via Boot Camp. I recommend all three!
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