The Canada's Cup Years
The Canada i!ii Cup Years ~m 31 THE ROCHESTER YACHT CLUB " 1877 - 2000 Th~ time the Chicago Yacht Club, Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago, 10( THE TURN OF THE ~wo Detroit Cltlbs, alld tile Rocheste, Yacht Club had ,11ade their bids. It was thought fair to give an American Lake Ontario yach! CENTURY c,<,b the preference and RYC won. The years between the founding of Rochester Yacht Club in 1902 1877 and about 1910 are described as Golden Years. Membership had grown froln the original 46 charter members to Each club built one boat under a new rule adopted in 1902 in 318. A personal insight on the scene in the harbor just after the the 40-foot class chosen by P, CYC. A long bowsprit brought turn of the century was obtained fi’om Past Commodore John the Canadian boat, to be named Stralh{’oIla, to 61 feet long. Van Voorhis. Van Voorhis’ father would take him to dinner at theRYC had mustered a syndicate consisting of Hiram W. Sibley, West Side Clubhouse and they would look out on the river fiom James S. Watson, Thomas N. Finucane, Arthur G. Yates. John the porch and his father told him: N. Beckley, Albert O. Fenn, Walter B. Duffy, and Charles M. Everest. The group settled on a design by William Gardner, to Twenty to 30 sailboats were moored, mostly on be built at the Wood Boatyard in City Island, N.Y. The the east side of lhe river belween lhe Naval Iromh, quoil measured 65 feet overall. 40 t~et on the waterline, and had a beam of 12.5 feet with a draft of 0 feet.
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