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

Above Right: Past Commodore Taver Bayly helps a lady drink from the Snipe Midwinters Regatta Trophy—a long lost tradition? Photo by J. Arlos Ogg Studio; courtesy of the Jamieson/ Cornett/Bayly family. Above Left: Ticket to the Sixth Annual Snipe Midwinters banquet in 1941. CYC Archives . Right: George Shed (left), Francis Seavy, and Howard McGaughey at CYC’s International Snipe Midwinters awards banquet in the 1940s. Courtesy of the Seavy family. Bottom: The Twenty-ninth International Snipe Midwinters Regatta (1966). Francis Seavy with Richie Keig as crew won with a perfect score of 8,000. This was his sixth first place win at the Snipe Midwinters (he went on to win two more for an unprecedented total of eight). The Clearwater Sun called him “too perfect.” Photo by Sun Photo; courtesy of the Seavy family.

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