All That We Do

…reaching over 550 youth every year…

• Youth and adult summer Learn-to-Sail programs
• Cornish Pilot Gig Rowing Club
• Varsity MVRHS Sailing Team
• Fall racing clinics
• Maritime Studies academic courses at MVRHS
• Winter Lecture Series

Since its inception in 1992, Sail Martha’s Vineyard has focused on connecting the Island’s youth and the community at large with the traditions and experiences of the Island’s maritime heritage.

Sail MV offers a summer sailing program to over 400 young sailors and equips and supports a year-round Cornish gig rowing program.

In 2007, the Maritime Studies program was developed to offer a Career Technical Education class at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. This program provides students with the skills and practical experience in order to gain employment on and around the water. Since then the program has also expanded to include more marine science and sustainability.

The High School Sailing team is sponsored, equipped, coached, and primarily funded by Sail MV. Because of its popularity and success, in 1999 the team gained varsity status and began to compete in regional regattas. A Junior High after-school Racing Clinic was instituted in the fall of 2000 to provide a bridge between the Summer program and the high school team.

Projects within the community have included: wooden boat building in the schools, scholarship funds to pursue time on sail training vessels, and educational programs. Sail MV also seeks to attract and welcome historic sailing vessels to the island so the community can experience first hand the sailing ships of the past.

Sail MV is largely supported by individual donations and small local grants. All of its introductory sailing programs for Island children are provided at a modest $125 youth membership fee.

Sail Martha’s Vineyard is committed to promoting, supporting, and actively seeking diversity and inclusivity within the sailing, rowing, boating, and maritime communities of Martha’s Vineyard. Diversity and inclusivity are essential to achieving our mission to make on-the-water training, maritime skills, and environmental sustainability knowledge available to all. 

Sail MV seeks and welcomes participants, students, employees, and volunteers without regard to differences of culture, ethnicity, race, gender, age, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, family status, physical ability, or appearance.

One Vineyard, One Sea, One Sail MV