Community Boating Inc from Boston, Massachusetts is a 501 non-profit educational sailing program operating from Boston's Charles River. It is the largest and oldest public sailing program in the United States. Community Boating is the model for many other non-profit sailing clubs.

CBI offers programs for all ages and abilities. Notably, the Junior Program offers sailing instruction for children ages 10-18 throughout the summer for $1.


In 1936, Joseph Lee, Jr., later a member of the Boston School Committee, started a small public sailing program designed to keep the local West End children off the city streets in the summer. Under Mr. Lee’s direction, West End children and Suffolk College students built and sailed plywood boats designed by Mr. Lee. The boats sailed from a pier on the Charles River Esplanade near Massachusetts General Hospital.

Located on the Charles River Basin, Community Boating has been operating since 1941 when it was incorporated and a boathouse was built with a donation to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Mrs. James Jackson Storrow.

External links

http://www.community-boating.org

http://www.ussailing.org/