Y.A.W.N.

Yachters Against Windmills Now protest Cape Wind at MIT hearing.

A new organization of patrician yachters protested the Cape Wind project at the December 16th Army Corps of Engineering hearing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“We’ve reached the end of our bow line,” said Preston Cabot Peabody, chairman of the new Osterville-based organization, Yachters Against Windmills Now. “We’ve decided to speak out to defend our unobstructed views. Frankly, we’re not used to NOT getting our way.”

YAWN opposes the new Cape Wind proposal and pledges to spend millions to drag out the regulatory process. “We are big supporters of coal,” said Peabody. “We believe that strip-mining in distant states is a far superior energy source than sustainable wind generation. I’ve seen those flat-top mountains flying over Appalachia in my Gulfstream IV, and it’s not that bad. What about the coal miners jobs? Doesn't anyone care about them?”

YAWN members arrived at MIT shortly after a flotilla of nautical protest. “We had 20 yachtsmen with cabin-cruisers arrive in Boston Harbor for the demonstration,” said Muffy VanAuchencloss, Chief Steward of YAWN. “This is an issue that moves our member’s rudders. The very idea of a limited horizon makes our blue blood boil.”

YAWN prepared a number of protest signs and chants including:
"Get Your Energy from Someone Else’s Backyard!"
"Global Warming: A Longer Yachting Season."
"Cape Wind, not on our soil. Lets get our energy from Middle East oil!"
"Global warming what a bore. Just protect our views from ship and shore!"
"Walter Cronkite, stick to the News. We’ll spend millions to protect our views!"
"Save our Sound, Save our Sound. Save the views from the Kennedy compound."