Essex Yacht Club

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 year earlier on Manhasset Bay, L. I., had given dinghy sailing a tremendous impetus and the lowly "dink" rapidly developed into a dual purpose boat: a small year round sailing craft, and a yacht tender that could be raced. Walter Rowe had cruised the Connecticut River in... more