The Louison-Callahan family is excited to introduce to BHYC the new boat they purchased this fall, in Wrightsville Beach North Carolina. The ‘LUCY’ is a 37’ classic fly bridge sport fisherman built in Havana, Cuba in 1960. Built of Cuban Mahogany and sheathed in fiberglass, the boat has undergone a complete rebuild and restoration, including [...]
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A Bit of History Comes to BHYC
Posted in News From Our Members on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cuckolds Rescue: The New Season
Posted in News From Our Members on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Cuckolds Rescue Team is gearing up for the upcoming busy Spring/Summer season. Following is a brief update on progress and plans. Construction plans remain unchanged and on schedule. Cuckolds Light has sufficient funds on hand to complete its 2012 building plans and will resume activities on the island when the water is turned on [...]
McMurrey’s Return
Posted in News From Our Members on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Doug and Sarah McMurrey are looking forward to being in Maine this summer. We have missed everyone and are looking forward to cruising the Maine coast on Fiesta – especially the BHYC August cruise. Hopefully we will be around a bit more than that! See you on the water! Submitted by Sarah McMurrey
BHYC Boat Competes in Wintery J/80 East Coast Championships
Posted in News From Our Members on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Winter came earlier than expected on Chesapeake Bay just as it did here in Maine. The weekend of October 28-30, Annapolis played host to over 100 J/Boats participating in the East Coast Championships for the J/22, J/24, J/80 and J/105 fleets. BHYC members Bill Hunt, Tom Clark, Tom’s son Thomas sailed Bill’s J/80 Firebolt along [...]
APPARITION at the NYYC Invitational Cup 2011
Posted in News From Our Members on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club and Southport Yacht Club member Ken Colburn and his wife Ginny put together an incredible summer season of racing during 2011. Ken and Ginny, who live in Dover, MA and summer on Green Island in Ebenecook Harbor, Southport, campaign two boats during the summer – J/105 GHOST and Swan Class 42 APPARITION [...]
Cuckolds Restoration Feature
Posted in Announcements, News From Our Members on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club members can take pride that The Cuckolds Fog Signal and Light Station Rescue is featured in the December issue of Soundings Magazine. For those of you who subscribe to Soundings, see page 46. BHYC members Janet Reingold and Philip Yasinski are spearheading this project, made possible by the generous support from several other [...]
Key West Reunion
Posted in News From Our Members, Reunions on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A BHYC mini-reunion was held on Feb. 4 in Key West, Florida hosted by Linda and Bob McArtor. The gang included Mary Lou and Jim Newstead, Audrey and Jeff Curtis, Lori and Bill Bailey and the McArtors. The festivities started on the “cocktail” deck at the McArtor’s rental house and proceeded to Salutes On-the-Beach, a [...]
Naples Reunion
Posted in News From Our Members, Reunions on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The weather could not have been more perfect for this year’s Winter Reunion held in Naples, FL. Forty-four BHYC members enjoyed dinner together at the Naples Sailing and Yacht Club overlooking Naples Bay. Some came to thaw out after a cold New England winter. On Friday, there were thirty-six members at the Royal Poinciana Golf [...]
Reunions
Posted in News From Our Members, Reunions on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frank & Linda Wolcott will be hosting a get together of BHYC members Nick and Suzy Mace, Mike and Lee Rowan, Walter and Cornelia Smithwick and Chet and Evelyn Shuman in Boca Grande, FL in mid-March. Frank Wolcott A Mini BHYC reunion was held at the California home of Alan & Ginny Burke on February 15, [...]
Adventures
Posted in Adventures, News From Our Members on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I did a 15 day “male” sail with friends in the Caribbean—what impressed me was the two days spent at Montserrat. Montserrat was devastated by a volcano in 1996. The volcano added 1000 feet in height, several square miles of increase island size, wiped out the capital of Plymouth and the population went from 10,000 [...]
