Welcome to the MTCA  MRA sailors on 3 Aufblitzen, 77 Jean, and 2091 Wabi Sabi maneuvering for the perfect start! (Photo by EYCRC) Thank you for visiting the Marblehead Town Class Association website. We are one of four active Town Class one-design fleets located on Boston's North Shore in the historic sailing port of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Our fleet is made up of a great group of people dedicated to pursuing the relaxing, tactile, sensual and satisfying experience of sailing and racing Townies! We have all experience levels from the new sailor to the very experienced sailor/racer...some with over 50 years of Townie sailing and racing experience. Come Join Us! Are you interested in getting out on the water and learning first hand how to sail and race? It's easy to get active! Skippers are always looking for crew to sail with them on any of the Thursday Evening Race Series, Saturday MRA Race Series, Sunday Morning Race Series as well as our exciting events at Marblehead Race Week and Town Class Nationals Regatta. Just contact us via the "Contact Us" page and give us your contact information and you will be listed as a potential crew member for our skippers to contact when they need crew. We are looking forward to hearing from you. 
The Venerable Town Class Affectionately known as a "Townie" she is a 70-plus-year-old 16 1/2 foot lapstrake dory hull designed and built in the early 1930's by Marcus Lowell in Amesbury, Massachusetts and later by his son Pert Lowell in Newbury, Mass.. Since the birth of the Townie, the Lowell family have produced an estimated 1,705 hulls in wood and finished an additional 315 in fiberglass. The boats are still being constructed by Pert Lowell Company, which is now operated by Pert's son-in-law, Ralph Johnson. Town Class sailboats have been racing since 1936 in Marblehead and since 1939 in Nahant with additional fleets in Spofford Lake, NH and Touisset, RI. They are admired for their classic beauty and forgiving sailing ability, while still being an exciting and competitive one design racing class. While the Townie ultimately became a popular one design racing class there are plenty of owners who simply like to day sail their boats.
| Fleet News Spring Fleet Meeting announced! Details are listed under the Social Events tab. (or click here). Select the "Spring Meeting" event on the calendar and see all the details...even get a map or directions to the Regis residence!
2008 Nationals to be hosted by the Touisset, RI Town Class Fleet. (Details here)!
MRA Sailors - smoother sailing is ahead! Your pleas for a better race course area have been heard and answered by our friends on the MRA. Townies, Lasers, and Corinthians get a new kinder, gentler race course area being called "The Brimbles Line". This new area should serve to enhance the quality of our racing and minimize the impact of local boating traffic through our race area. This is something that Jim Cooke has been working on for some time. I think it will be a fitting course area for Jim's return to MRA sailing this season!
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