Hull
Massachusetts
Hull Lifesaving Museum Newsletter - March 2025
Arts and Entertainment
March 5, 2025
From: Hull Lifesaving MuseumSaturday, March 15, 2025
(Weather Date March 16, 2025)
Race Starts: 12:00 noon
Coxswains Meeting: 11:00 am
Windmill Point Boathouse,
185 Main St., Hull, MA
Fee: $45 per racer
Registration Closes 4:00 pm Friday 3/14/25
The Hull Lifesaving Museum's signature rowing race, the Snow Row, will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at the very tip of Hull's peninsula. With its one-of-a-kind LeMans-style start, the race covers a 3 3/4 mile triangular course starting and ending off the beach at our Windmill Point Boathouse.
Spectators gather to share in the excitement of the wild and woolly start, unpredictable weather, and gathering of gorgeous boats and athletes. 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, pilot gigs, captain's gigs and Irish currachs.
Snow Row Spectator Boat
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Departing from Pemberton Pier, Hull, MA
Boarding: 10:30 - 11:45 am
Tickets $20 per person
Tickets also on sale at Pemberton Pier on race day
VETERANS RIDE FREE!
Spectator Boat - Best Seat at the Snow Row! Back by popular demand, this is the perfect spot to watch the race unfold. Consider it an "on-the-water" ski lodge where ticketed guests can go to warm up in between excursions to the beach to check out the boats. Everyone should be onboard by 11:45 am, 15 minutes before the start of the race.
Snow Row 2025
Call for Food Donations & Volunteers
Saturday, March 15, 2025
We need you! Are you a secret soup specialist? Brilliant bread baker or master sandwich maker? Not a chef but would like to bring some goodies (chips, granola bars, etc.)? If so, we need your help feeding hungry rowers and spectators at the Snow Row!
What we need:
- Soup, chowder, or chili (minimum donation enough to fill a crockpot: 8 quarts, please drop off in large ziplock baggies)
- Bread/rolls
- Sandwiches (sandwiches must be individually wrapped)
- Snacks (fruit, snack bars, chips and cookies)
Cooking not your thing?
If you have a few hours to give and want to lend a hand on race day we're looking for volunteers to:
9:30 am - 11:45 am: Set up food service
11:45 am - 2:00 pm: Serve food
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Help clean up
If your talent lies in service rather than culinary arts let us know how you'd like to help. Contact us at 781-925-5433 or send an email. See you at the race. Thank You!
Currently On Exhibit
Sea & Sky Juried Art Show
On display through March 23, 2025
A feast for winter-weary eyes, our 29th annual Sea & Sky Juried Art Show celebrates the beauty of our coastal environment and the richness of the artistic community on the South Shore and beyond. This year we fielded the largest number of submissions ever with many already sold - and it's not over yet! We encourage you to come view this exhibit before it closes and perhaps bring home a stunning work of art for your home.
Looking Ahead
Casino Night
at Rick's Cafe Americain
Step into the Golden Age of Hollywood at our Casino Night: A Tribute to Humphrey Bogart & Casablanca
Saturday, April 5, 2025
7:00 -10:00 pm
Hull Lifesaving Museum
1117 Nantasket Ave., Hull, MA
Tickets: $75
Step into the glamour of 1940s Hollywood at our Casino Night, inspired by the legendary Casablanca (1942). Immerse yourself in the world of Rick’s Café Americain with its iconic neon sign, upscale casino, and timeless ambiance. Enjoy casino games, sip on classic 1940s-inspired cocktails, and groove to era-defining music, including the unforgettable As Time Goes By. Learn More.
Spring Mindfulness Workshop ~ Lifesaving Sangha with Sean Baggett
Wednesday Evenings
April 9 - May 28, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Hull Lifesaving Museum
1117 Nantasket Ave., Hull, MA
$35 per person
Please join us as we discuss and explore one of the simplest but elusive mindfulness practices. This is the ability to see things as they really are and setting aside the obstacles to being truly free. Our guide for this journey will be Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach.
Whether you are new to Buddhist philosophy or an experienced practitioner, you'll find this workshop and group meaningful and rewarding. Sean's classes are fun, welcoming, and informative. As part of this upcoming session, we recommend that everyone purchase the book to enhance your learning and understanding of the material we’ll be discussing. You can easily find the book available for purchase online through major retailers.
Class will be 7pm - 8pm with a 30-minute insight meditation session concluding at 8:30 pm. All are welcome. To learn more please email or call us at 781-925-5433.
Fortress Boston Walking Tour
Saturday, April 19, 2025
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tour begins at Hull Lifesaving Museum
1117 Nantasket Ave., Hull, MA
$15 per person
Join Sean Baggett as he leads this walking tour as we look to uncover the network of forts and sites that make up Fortress Boston, through the evolution of Boston Harbor defenses in response to ever-changing geopolitical threats - from the Puritans through the Cold War and Counter Terrorism. Check the weather and dress appropriately and wear walking shoes. Bring a camera and binoculars if you have them. (In case of inclement weather, the walking tour will be held the following day at the same time.)
Boston Harbor Nature Cruise
Saturday, April 26, 2025
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Tickets: $30 per person
Departing from Pemberton Pier, Hull, MA
See Boston Harbor with fresh eyes and from a unique perspective. Join us for this rare opportunity to learn about the wildlife that exists right off our coast as we cruise among the islands and shorelines of the outer edges of Boston Harbor and learn some local history narrated by Sean Baggett. No need to drive into Boston to catch the boat, we will be departing from Pemberton Pier for this fun adventure. Spring is a unique time of year to take in breathtaking scenery, observe a variety of migrating birds and seals basking on rocky outcroppings.
To learn more email us or call us at (781) 925-5433
Plan Your Spring Field Trip at the Museum
The Museum offers interactive and engaging educational programming designed to inspire your students to be curious about history and critical thinking skills. Our school programs are a great at re-enforcing history, science and nature studies.
To learn more please contact email us or call us at (781) 925-5433
Planning For Summer
Summer Adventure Program
Children ages 5-11
Registration Now Open
Tuesday - Thursday
July 8 - August 21, 2025
9:30 - 12:30 Morning Session
9:30 - 3:00 All Day Session
$120/week members: $130/nonmembers
Extended Day: $180 members: $195 nonmembers
Choose Your Week!
The museum's Summer Adventure Program offers seven weeks of discovery and exploration for children ages 5-11. Summer Adventure meets Tuesday - Thursday with two options: our regular morning program from 9:30 - 12:30 pm or our extended 9:30 - 3:00 pm program with a different theme each week. Each week includes hands-on activities, outdoor exploration, and a fun mix of history, science, and arts. Sign up for as few or as many weeks as you wish.
Please email us for further information and details.
Summer Explorers Program
Youth ages 12-16 Registration Now Open
Tuesday - Thursday
July 8 - August 21, 2025
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Windmill Point Boathouse, 185 Main St., Hull, MA
$120 per week members $130 per week non-members
Choose Your Week!
The museum's Summer Explorer Program is an exciting and engaging opportunity for young people ages 12-16 to learn about the natural and cultural history of Boston Harbor while developing maritime skills.
This 7-week program offers a different area of focus each week with all programming originating at our HLM Windmill Point Boathouse including our fleet of open water rowing vessels, the boathouse, the harbor and harbor islands. Areas of focus include: safety on the water, rowing and commanding (coxing) open water rowing craft, operating outboard powered boats, harbor piloting and navigation, marine environment, boat maintenance and boat building, while making connections to each other, to our past, and to our future.
Please email us for further details.
Harbor Illumination
Save the Date
Saturday, July 26, 2025
8:30 pm
A Street Pier to James Landing,
Hull Harbor Flare
Plan your summer get-togethers around our annual Harbor Illumination SCHEDULED THIS YEAR FOR SATURDAY, 7/26/25. It happens only one night a year...the magical Harbor Illumination. Join us as we once again light the harbor with more than one thousand flares celebrating Hull's maritime heritage.
VOLUNTEERS ARE AWAYS NEEDED to help with flare sales, night-of set up and breakdown and much more. Please email us for more information.
Summer Job Opportunities
The Hull Lifesaving Museum has employment opportunities in our Summer Adventure and Summer Explorer programs.
Summer Adventure Program:
Applicants must be at least 16 years old and be available for an in-person interview. Interest in nature, science, art, and working with children ages 5-11 is a must!
Summer Explorer Program:
Applicants must be at least 16 years old and be available for an in-person interview. Knowledge of boating, rowing, water-based activities, nature, science, art, and working with youth ages 12-16 is a must!
Please email us for application and further information.
Ongoing Programs
Veteran's Coffee Hour
Friday, 3/7/27
9:00 - 10:30 am
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Veteran's Rowing
Saturday, 3/8/25
10:00 - 11:30 am
Windmill Point Boathouse
Mark Your Calendar
Keep On the Look Out For These
Upcoming Events
March 15 - Snow Row (March 16 - Weather Date)
April 5 - Casino Night at Rick's Cafe Americain
April 9 - Spring Mindfulness Meditation Workshop Begins
April 19 - Walking Tour: Fortress Boston lead by Sean Baggett
April 26 - Boston Harbor Nature Cruise
July 8 - Summer Adventure Begins
July 8 - Summer Explorer Begins
July 26 - Harbor Illumination!
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