Eastern Yacht Club

When yachting in Massachusetts was in its infancy, a group of gentlemen from Boston organized themselves as the Eastern Yacht Club. Twelve men, "imbued with the true yachting spirit," according to a contemporary newspaper account, met in March of 1870. Within a month they had enrolled 110 members with 23 yachts. Construction of the clubhouse on Marblehead Neck was completed in 1881. The founding members' purpose was the promotion of yachting; as the Eastern's history shows, this cause has never... more