Duck Island Yacht Club

It all began in June 1932 on the front porch of a Grove Beach summer home be­longing to the parents of our first commodore, William H. West. Bill and his friends Robert Floyd and Jan Taylor had recently graduated from college. Bill found work as a lawyer in New York City. His two friends, still unemployed and seeking ways to make money, planned to sell Dyer Dinks at the Larchmont Yacht Club Race Week. They thought if they raced the Dyers well, they would sell a few of them. However, only... more