Build Your Own Boat

Robert Sulzer

This team gets off to a quick start at the BYOB event.

This team has a need for speed.

On Sunday September 16th, creative engineers and designers gathered their tin foil, plastic jugs, and spare wood to design masterpieces of the sea. In the 2nd annual Build Your Own Boat (BYOB) event contestants competed at Jetties Beach to raise money for Nantucket Community Sailing and to remember Peter McMurrer.Debba Pitcock, one of the organizers of the event and long-time friend of Peter McMurrer said, “Peter was an avid sailor and was very involved with community sailing. When he passed away, we decided to do something in his memory.”This year’s race featured two divisions: a True Sailboat Division, where contestants must be in their boat the entire race and sail, row, or will themselves to the finish line; and an Anything-Goes Division, where contestants could push, swim, or peddle their creations to victory.

Ten teams competed in this year's race and raised almost $2000 for Nantucket Community Sailing.

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On Sunday, September 16th,  Creative engineers and designers gathered their tin foil, plastic jugs, and  spare wood to design masterpieces of the sea.  In the second annual Build Your Own Boat (BYOB) event  contestants competed at Jetties Beach to raise money for Nantucket Community Sailing and to remember Peter McMurrer.

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Debba Pitcock goes over the rules of the course of the BYOB competition.

Robert Sulzer