It’s time to vote for The Day’s Best of the Best Readers’ Choice Awards! Vote for your favorite people, places and businesses in southeastern Connecticut! NESS has been nominated for BEST SUMMER CAMP in the Great Outdoors Category. Voting is open June 13 – 27, 2021 VOTE NOW!

NESS Board of Directors, Michael Hennessy, received Line Honors of the first & second leg of the Bermuda One-Two Offshore Yacht Race on Tuesday, June 8th and Monday, June 21st. The Bermuda One-Two begins with Leg 1 at Newport Yacht Club, RI and finishes at St George’s Yacht Club, Bermuda, and then back for Leg […]

Spike chats with Long River Wealth Management, UBS Advisor Podcast Ebb and Flow all about NESS!! “This month, we speak with NESS founder and President Spike Lobdell about the origins of this great program, his personal journey from the corporate to the non-profit world, and the touching stories of students’ first encounters with the ocean.” […]

NESS was recently featured in Cruising World’s summer publication!

Congratulations to one of our very own members of NESS’s Board of Directors, Erica Watson, for graduating with a Doctor of Health Science and clinical health and clinical nutrition concentrations! “Erica Watson graduated with a Doctor of Health Science and clinical health and clinical nutrition concentrations. She walked in the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater to receive […]

NESS was recently featured in the Westerly Sun! “Because Spike Lobdell, the science and sailing foundation’s founder and CEO, also serves on the church vestry, Dupont explained, a conversation about the two organizations working together began almost organically. Once Dupont began chatting with Megan Strand, the foundation’s program director, the idea for a possible collaboration […]