b'Please Join Us inMonomoy High School SailingWelcoming Our NewSince 2016, the PBCB waterfront has been the home port for Waterfront Director the Monomoy Regional High School sailing team. The 420s used for our summer program classes and recreational sailing Pleasant Bay Community Boatingare shared with the sailing team during the school year. is proud to announce longtime Harwich Harbormaster and party boat captain Tom Leach as our new Waterfront/Sailing Director. Tom has a comprehensive background as a fully licensed captain with sailing and towing endorsements, competitive sailing in J/24s and Flying Scots, and 12 years of experience as co-coach for the Harwich High School sailing team, the Rough Riders. He pioneered the first public shellfish upweller system in 1994 at Wychmere Harbor, where Harwich students interned seasonally, raising millions of quahogs and clams. Tom also designed the successful Cape Cod Frosty racing dinghy, which has six active fleets and is the basis of the youth build-and-sail program at Sail Maine, Portland Community Boating. Tom is a great fit for PBCBs sailing and science programs. As we welcome PJ and Tom to our PBCB family, wed like to thank Charlie Sumner and Greg Kelly for their years of dedication, loyalty and hard work in making PBCB a success. We wish them all happy sailing!Instructor I learned how to sail at Harry McDonough Sailing Camp when I was nine years old, and I loved the feeling of Spotlight:independence it gave me.Five years later, when I was Hope Alto offered the opportunity to become a sailing instructor with PBCB, I was thrilled.Venturing out on the ocean every day and teaching others allowed me to dosomething that I love. None of this would have been possible without my boss and mentor, Gregory Kelly.His faith in me helped me to be a better sailinginstructor, and person, by showing me how to place the same faith in others. One of the biggest tasks I have experienced isparticipation in the Special Olympics, where I teach David Vincent : Aof our students who are blind have not sailed before, and as a guide and sailing instructor, I have learned that I have SIGHTED GUIDESto build a detailed model of the Flying Scot in the students EXPERIENCEminds eye. Yes, our crew can reach out and touch things, The problem is that I cantbut without my running description of how each part relates point to anything on theto the rest of the boat, touch alone would be meaningless. boat. No not that rope,Describing everything and coming up with an apt analogy is the one over there justa bit like being in a creative writing class with some intense doesnt work. Fortunately,peer pressure. By the time we get back on our mooring, my everything on a boat has itsbrain is on an endorphin high.name and its place, and theThe feel of the wind direction is the same for a sighted or cockpit is small and definedblind person. The pressure of the air moving around face by the combing (raised areaand neck is an instant indicator of a change in direction, to keep out water). Mostrather than an occasional glance at a piece of thread on a'