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Bellingham Yacht Club
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Mission of the Bellingham Yacht Club
The mission of the Bellingham Yacht Club is to foster recreational boating activities in Bellingham and vicinity by providing a support organization, a clubhouse, and other facilities and equipment, and to serve the social needs of its members to the extent possible while managing the Club’s assets in a fiscally responsible manner.
The Beginnings:
On February 14, 1925, a small group of avid boaters met at Garland’s boathouse on the South Side and created the Bellingham Yacht Club. Dr. Carl Erb served at first BYC Commodore; W. J. Seaman was Vice Commodore; and J. L. Patton was Secretary-Treasurer. The club burgee was designed by F. Stanley Piper. Three weeks later the Club had a membership of fifty and a fleet of ten boats. Members of Sea Scout I under the master H. L. Morse with their ship Sea Wolf were made junior members of the new Yacht Club.
Pacific-American Fisheries allowed the new group to use its shipyard ways and a portion of the office building temporarily while the club began negotiations with the Whatcom County Port Commission to obtain permanent moorage on Bellingham Bay. By July of 1925 there were eighty members and the club had become affiliated with the Pacific International Yachting Association (PIYA).
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