Edgartown Yacht Club

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Edgartown Yacht Club
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Short nameEYC
FoundedJanuary 5, 1905;119 years ago (1905-01-05)
Location1 Dock Street, Edgartown, Massachusetts 02539 Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Website www.edgartownyc.org
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The Edgartown Yacht Club is a private yacht club in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The club was founded on January 5, 1905, and Edward H. Raymond was named its first commodore. The Edgartown Yacht Club's current clubhouse was completed in 1927, and is on Dock Street in downtown Edgartown. As of October 1, 2020, the commodore is Howard F. Powers, Jr.

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The club also includes a "Junior Yacht Club" created in 1923. In the words of the Edgartown Yacht Club website "The Club sponsored the formation of the Edgartown Junior Yacht Club, one of the first of its kind, to encourage young people to learn sailing, seamanship, racing rules and tactics and other phases of yachting. Since that time, our juniors have had their own clubhouse and elected their own officers and committees, while competing in races and participating in other marine outings. At present, the Club owns a fleet of 30 + Optimist sailing dinghies, 22 420’s and a few Rhodes 19s and Lasers. The summer program is under the direction of an experience staff of 10 or more instructors led by the Sailing Director". [1]

Kennedy incident

It was on the weekend of the club regatta on July 18, 1969. that Mary Jo Kopechne was found drowned at Dike Bridge, Chappaquiddick, through the negligent driving of EYC member Edward M. Kennedy.

Sailors

Olympic sailor Kris Stookey is an EYC member. [2]

Tennis

The Edgartown Yacht Club also has a very popular tennis program, and operates seven Har-Tru courts and four all weather courts. Teams from the Edgartown Yacht club compete against teams from other clubs, including arch-rival Nantucket Yacht Club. [ citation needed ]

Notable members

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References

  1. ↑ Edgartown Yacht Club
  2. ↑ "Bangor (Maine) Daily News", May 15, 1996, Letitia Baldwin, "Olympic sailor has Maine ties."
  3. ↑ "Walter Cronkite devoted time to Island philanthropic causes", Vineyard Gazette, Phyllis Meras, retrieved January 28, 2012
  4. ↑ Registrants for 88th Annual Regatta: Edgartown Yacht Club, US Sailing Regatta Network, retrieved January 28, 2012
  5. ↑ William Styron, A Life by James L. W. West
  6. ↑ Vineyard Gazette, April 27, 2007, Ian Fein, "Journalists Collaborate on Book Exposing Politics of Wind Farm," Martha's Vineyard, MA, p. 1.
  7. ↑ "The Washington Times", May 2, 1991, Carlise Cornelius, "Frank Neville Ikard, 78, oilman, ex-congressman," p. B4.
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