Hull Lifesaving Museum

The Snow Ball/Snow Row Weekend

Event 1: 2nd Annual Snow Ball When: Friday, March 9, 2012

Time: 7:00 PM: cocktails, auction, and raffle open 8:00 PM - Midnight:
Live entertainment by The Dons

 

Location: Nantasket Beach Resort, 45 Hull Shore Drive, Hull, MA

 

Cost: $10 per ticket Contact: Hull Lifesaving Museum, 781-925-5433

Event 2: 33rd Annual Snow Row Time: Saturday, March 10, 2012

 

Race Start: 10:30 AM

 

Coxswains' Meeting: 9:45 AM

 

Registration: 8-9:30 AM

 

Location: Windmill Point Boathouse, 185 Main Street, Hull, MA

 

Cost: $20 Racers; Beach Spectators Free

 

Ferry Cost: $20 Harbor Express Spectator Ferry

 

Contact: Hull Lifesaving Museum, 781-925-5433

 

 

The Hull Lifesaving Museum's signature-rowing race, The Snow Row, is running for the 33rd year on March 10, at the very tip of Hull's peninsula at the museum's Windmill Point Boathouse. But, the fun now begins the night before, on Friday, March 9, with the 2nd annual Snow Ball - the most informal and affordable "ball" anyone will attend this year!

 

The 2nd Annual Snow Ball (7:00 pm - 12:00 am) at the Nantasket Beach Resort, promises to be an evening of fun and dancing. LIVE entertainment from The Don's, cash bar, and lots of fabulous raffle and auction items in an ultra-casual get together, all for only $10 per ticket.

 

But don't sleep in. The 2012 Snow Row has a 10:30 am start! The race covers a 3 3/4 mile triangular course starting and ending off the beach at the tip of Hull, at Windmill Point. Huge crowds gather to share in the excitement of the wild, one-of-a-kind LeMans-style start, unpredictable weather, and huge gathering of gorgeous boats and athletes (over 100 boats participating!). Entirely within view of the Boathouse, the event is as much of a thrill for spectators as for participants - a rare opportunity to see, up close, rowers of all ages from all over New England, New York, and along the East Coast, and their stunning array of wooden pulling boats -- peapods, dories, wherries, whitehalls, ocean shells, kayaks, pilot gigs, captain's gigs, and Irish currachs.

 

A Harbor Express high speed ferry ($20 per person), boarding at 9:30 at Pemberton Pier, closely follows the race course, affording spectators an even more intimate view of the event.

After watching the excitement of the Snow Row, come to the Lifesaving Museum, a mile from the boathouse, which will be open throughout the day with free admission to see the last weekend of the Sea & Sky Art Show, opening February, before it closes on March 16. For more information, please contact Lory Newmyer or Ed McCabe at the Hull Lifesaving Museum, 781-925-5433 or info@hulllifesavingmuseum.org.