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The North East Grand Banks Owners Association is a non-profit corporation with goals of creating opportunities for social interaction between owners, potential owners, and other individuals having an appreciation for boats bearing the Grand Banks brand name. We also strive to not only foster enjoyable, safe and knowledgeable boating, but environmentally responsible boating as well. We encourage the means of communication between members for discussion related to recreational boating.
Lastly, we promote our pride of ownership in the Grand Banks brand. These goals will be realized through events, forums and publications such as; rendezvous, mail and email communications, social, web sites and other activities endorsed by the members. |
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| Recent News | | NEGBOA Summer Rendezvous, August 3-5:
Twelve Grand Banks attended this year's largest NEGBOA rendezvous at Kingman Yacht Center on Buzzards Bay in Cataumet, MA. Several boats spent the previous night in Cutty Hunk Harbor or Hadley's Harbor and came up through the light fog and brisk Southwest wind on Friday, August 4 to Kingman. Some people got there early enough on Friday to have lunch at the Chartroom right at Kingman, and discovered that all the bartenders were brothers! Liberty and Post Doc were the only two Cape Cod boats attending, unless you consider Marion part of the Cape (geologically it is, but it is on the OTHER side of the bridge). If you do, then Tortue de Mer made it three.
Friday night we used the one-room Kingman Yacht Club building (a full kitchen with enclosed dining porch) and deck overlooking the mooring field for our BYOB cocktail party and grill night.The wind off the water relieved the humidity a good bit, and a fisherman arrived with fresh tuna, pieces of which he generously offered around.
Saturday morning 18 of us piled into a yellow school bus for our excursion to the Cape Cod Canal Visitor's Center in Sandwich. Climbing on to the bus seemed to trigger nostalgic thoughts for some of us. One person even started singing "99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall", but luckily no one else joined in, and he stopped at "96". At the Canal Center we had a very informative talk by a park ranger, a 20 minute video about the history of the canal, and a demonstration of the navigation and traffic monitoring displays the Army Corp of Engineers use in the canal. The park ranger lost her audience briefly in the middle of her presentation when another GB appeared in the picture window behind her zipping through the Canal with the current. On the way back to Kingman we stopped at the Lobster Trap for lunch in their open air restaurant and fish market.
That night 31 of us had dinner in the Chartroom after a prolonged cocktail "hour" in the adirondack chairs on the lawn overlooking the docks and mooring field. The food was excellent and the service heroic in this very popular, busy, and noisy place. The two man combo started playing at 8 PM, and most of us finished dinner and left before the sing-along of "Oldies" started. In the absence of any GB representative Dave Pearson passed out GB notebooks and NEGBOA coffee mugs that had been "resting" in his garage for a while. That night was another hot, humid one and the boats with A/C really appreciated it.
The next morning most of the boats continued their cruises. Two captains, after our visit to the Canal Center, changed their plans and went through the canal on the fair current Sunday morning. Several boats stayed another day or two on the docks or on moorings at Kingman before moving on. A good time was had by all.
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| Recent News |
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| Eleven Grand Banks boats participated in the 8th Annual Potter's Cove Rendezvous on June 15th-17th, entertained by the USAF Thunderbirds. See more pictures in the Gallery. |
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