2025-11-13T11:55:00-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 843368576 BOSTON BLIND SAILING INC BOST 6179976217 234 Arlington Street Watertown MA 02472 Duane Farrar President 6179976217 2025-11-13 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://bostonblindsailing.org/ X X 1275 X 1275 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1275 0 0 0 0 0 0 3039 3039 -1764 3748 0 1984 3748 1984 0 0 0 0 3748 1984 0 0 3748 1984 MISSION STATEMENT OF BOSTON BLIND SAILING We are a community of blind and visually impaired sailors and sighted guides working together to sail at a highly competitive level, by: * Promoting autonomy in sailing through training and the use of other senses, * Providing blind access and inclusion to sailing and the wider sailing community, and * Partnering with local, national, and international sailing organizations to expand the sport of blind sailing. In 2024, BBS enjoyed another full season of our core programming, conducting weekly practices from May through August at our host center, Boston's Community Boating, Inc (CBI,). These practices usually consisted of various drills, starts and short races. The participation numbers for blind and sighted sailors and volunteers remained the same as 2023 levels. We are looking to increase participation in all categories in 2025. Coach Nolan Cooper returned to conduct our weekly practices. In early February, Duane Farrar and Sam Peirson, along with six CBI staff members, traveled to U.S. Sailing's National Sailing Programs Symposium in Savannah, Georgia. Along with visually impaired sailor Kris Scheppe from Naples, Florida, Duane and Sam gave a presentation at the Savannah Yacht Club on Blind Sailing. The focus of the presentation was on how other sailing centers can accommodate and begin sailing programs for blind & visually impaired sailors. In early March, Duane Farrar, Willi Fontanez, Sam Peirson, Andrew Alletag and Nolan Cooper traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, to assist in conducting a match racing clinic using audible buoys at the Community Sailing Center. Prior to the clinic, they gave a presentation and demonstrated the audible buoys to a group of about 30 blind & visually impaired people at the New Orleans Lighthouse for the Blind. In early June, the Robie Pierce One Design Regatta for Disabled Sailors was held on Western Long Island Sound in New York at the American Yacht Club in Rye. BBS was represented by blind sailor Duane Farrar and sighted guide Solomon Marini. They sailed with a blind sailor from New York City. The Boston Blind Open (BBO) Sailing Regatta took place at CBI on August 31. Blind & visually impaired sailors from the Carroll Center's SailBlind Saturday recreational program who had an interest in racing were invited to take part in the regatta. Sighted sailors and tacticians were recruited from BBS, SailBlind, Clagett Sailing and CBI's Tiller Club. There were five Sonar teams of two blind or visually impaired and two sighted sailors who were treated to a sunny, windy day of racing. In typical Charles River fashion, they experienced a 180 degree wind shift just prior to the start of one race. Coach Nolan and his Race Committee had their hands full as they successfully ran a total of eight races for the sailors. 0 2468 2468 Duane Farrar President 4 0 0 0 Denis Bell Vice President 0.1 0 0 0 Angelina Feimer Clerk 1.0 0 0 0 Samuel Peirson Treasure 1.50 0 0 0 Andrew Alletag Director 0.2 0 0 0 Tabitha Baskin Director 0.2 0 0 0 Jason Wallenstein Director 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA Samuel Peirson 234 Arlington Street Watertown MA 02472 9547299030 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 10225 4529 2325 452 1275 18806 320 320 10225 4529 2645 452 1275 19126 19126 350 350 10225 4529 2995 452 1275 19476 0.98203 1.00 0 0.00 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 An airline ticket had been purchased by Boston Blind Sailing for a blind sailor to attend the Independence Cup Regatta in Chicago. This sailor subsequently received a $350 travel grant from the Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation to attend the Independence Cup. The sailor reimbursed BBS for $350 to avoid his double dipping. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Legal;54|Direct Program Expenses;2468|Web Site Administration;513|Fundraising;3|Rounding Adjustment;1^Total;3039^ Form 8868 requesting a six-month extension was filed and accepted by May 15, 2025. Boston Blind Sailing is a small, all-volunteer organization with no paid employees and we lacked the resources to file the full return by May 15.