A great time of year to get offshore. We often find masses of sea ducks around Nantucket Sound\, with lingering shearwaters over the shoals and a c hance for alcids.
\n \nIt can be very cold and windy on the water in December. Dress in laye rs as you would for a pretty cold winter day. The boat moves fairly fast when cruising between spots and that adds to the apparent wind speed. The wea ther may not be ideal. The weather cancellation de cision is made mostly based on safety and difficul t sea conditions. Layer up and sign up!\n \n
Cost: $110 (BBC member s)\, $130 (non-members).
\n \nWe are only allowing two additional participa nts per registration session (that is\, per email) . If there are more in your party\, please have th em sign up in separate registration sessions with different emails. It is necessary to collect an ad dress for each participant. Sorry for the extra ty ping.
\n \nTo reserve a space\, click the "
Register Now" button. "Register now" is on a page reached
after clicking review and confir
ming your information. If you don't get a
confirmation email\, you haven't successfully regi
stered. Contact jedmondson@brooklinebirdc
lub.org if you have registration issues. For o
ther questions\, pelagics@brooklinebirdclub.org.
Here is a trip report from December 2 025: https://ebird.org/tripreport/439877
\n \nPlease see our Pelagic T rips page for useful trip information and cave ats.
DESCRIPTION:Pelagic\, Hyannis MA to Nantucket shoals. All day (7 am to 4 pm). Dec 5 - (Weather Date Dec 6) \n \n \n A great time of year to get offshore. We often find masses of sea ducks around Nantucket Sound\, with lingering shearwaters over the shoals and a chance for alcids. \n \n \n \n It can be very cold and windy on the water in December. Dress in laye rs as you would for a pretty cold winter day. The boat moves fairly fast when cruising between spots and that adds to the apparent wind speed. The wea ther may not be ideal. The weather cancellation de cision is made mostly based on safety and difficul t sea conditions. Layer up and sign up!\n \n \n \n Cost: $110 (BBC members)\, $130 (non-members).\n \n \n \n \n Weather date: You are expected to be able to attend on either Dec 5 or Dec 6 depending on the weather. The decision will be made very clo se to Dec 5 because marine forecasts are not relia ble earlier in advance.\n Cancellations: Notify p elagics@brooklinebirdclub.org (mailto:pelagics@bro oklinebirdclub.org) if you need to cancel. We will have to charge you for the trip anyway unless the re is someone on the waiting list who can take you r place. We try hard to fill your spot. Even if we can fill your spot\, there is a non-refundable $5 .00 cancellation charge to cover credit card trans action fees which we have incurred on your behalf (those fees are not refunded to us when we refund you). However\, we will fully refund you if the en tire trip including the weather day is cancelled. \n Due to weather conditions\, the captain someti mes cancels the trip if there are safety concerns. We will keep you informed as soon as we know of a change of trip status. While unfortunate\, it may be unavoidable that we have to cancel only a day before the trip which could create difficulties fo r our participants. Similarly\, the decision to sw itch to the weather day may happen only a day befo re. \n Please consider purchasing trip insurance for flights and hotel arrangements\, since the pel agic trips are occasionally cancelled due to sea c onditions.\n \n \n We are only allowing two additi onal participants per registration session (that i s\, per email). If there are more in your party\, please have them sign up in separate registration sessions with different emails. It is necessary to collect an address for each participant. Sorry fo r the extra typing.\n \n \n \n To reserve a space\ , click the "Register Now" button. "Register now" is on a page reached after clicking review and con firming your information. If you don't get a confi rmation email\, you haven't successfully registere d. Contact jedmondson@brooklinebirdclub.org (mailt o:jedmondson@brooklinebirdclub.org) if you have re gistration issues. For other questions\, pelagics@ brooklinebirdclub.org (mailto:pelagics@brooklinebi rdclub.org).\n \n \n \n Here is a trip report from December 2025: https://ebird.org/tripreport/43987 7 (https://ebird.org/tripreport/439877)\n \n \n \n Please see our Pelagic Trips page (https://www.br ooklinebirdclub.org/tripsevents/pelagic-trips-2/) for useful trip information and caveats.\n \n CATEGORIES:Pelagic Trip CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T070000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T160000 LOCATION:137 Pleasant Street\n Hyannis\, MA 02601\n United States\n URL:https://www.brooklinebirdclub.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=334 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR