The First Hundred Years: Clearwater Yacht Club, 1911-2011

21. The organizational meeting for the club’s first official regatta was held at Taver Bayly’s home in January of 1935. Guests were served “Crab a la Eloise.” 22. In 1935 the tradition of CYC’s “Candlelight Buffet Dinner” was born. The cost for dinner was fifty cents! Dinner was followed by dancing and entertainment. 23. In 1935, after a storm had damaged the bottom floor of the Beach Pavilion, the city agreed to let CYC cut the top floor off and move it across Mandalay to the CYC site. Again, members pitched in to renovate the building, which became the club’s home until the mid 1970s. 24. The first annual International Snipe Midwinters Championship Regatta was held in 1936. 25. On February 28, 1937, a severe storm caused extensive damage to CYC property and members’ boats. 26. During the 1937 storm, the CYC power fleet took part in a vast rescue mission where they saved two girls and a boy stranded on a bird rack near the Anclote Light. 27. The year 1938 brought with it an increase in the price of the CYC Buffet Dinner to eighty five cents. Thus beginning the “Food Fights”—when the prices went up and the satisfaction of the members went down. 28. In 1939, the “Skipperrettes” became officially affiliated with CYC and held their first regatta. 29. During the height of WWII, the club held no racing due to manpower and materials shortages. 30. In 1948, CYC won a “one-two-three” victory at the Florida Sailing Association Snipe Regatta. Members Francis Seavy, Jimmy Cochran, and Don Cochran, Jr., won in that order. 31. The year 1949 brought another “one-two-three” victory at the Miami Orange Bowl Snipe Regatta. Members Francis Seavy, Jimmy Cochran, and J. Montanari won in that order. 32. The Clearwater Yacht Club’s current burgee was officially adopted in 1954. 33. In 1957, Clearwater Yacht Club added an Olympic-size pool and Clearwater High School’s swim team began training in it.

Appendix D 147