The genesis of the Essex Yacht Club can be found in the Inaugural Eastern Frostbite Dinghy Regatta, held on March 4 and 5, 1933 with racing off the old Steamboat Dock and headquarters at the Griswold Inn. Frostbiting, begun a...
On July 16, 1984, Allen S. Ames, John J. Carta, Thomas M. Daniels, Spencer Evans, John N. Fields, Ann H. Horan, Dennis W. Walker, A. J. Wasley and Alan Wasley formed as a club and asked others to join them to "provide a facility...