The Duxbury Yacht Club (DYC) is a private club located in Duxbury, Massachusetts that offers sailing, golf, tennis, paddle, swimming, and junior activities. It was founded in 1875 and was incorporated in 1895. The DYC is unique among yacht clubs in the United States because it is the only American yacht club to offer athletic recreation besides yachting and golf, and one of five American yacht clubs to offer athletic recreation besides yachting. It was among the first yacht clubs founded in the United States in the 19th century.
7-444: The DYC is governed by an Executive Committee, a Board of Directors, and Committee Chairs. The Executive Committee includes a Commodore, a Vice Commodore, a Rear Commodore, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and an Activities Chairperson. The Board of Directors include committee chairpersons, a former Commodore, and "generalists." Committee Chairs direct specific club activities and operations; e.g., finance, property, and entertainment. The DYC
14-512: Is mostly shallow sand and mud flats exposed at low water with a few winding channels. Several of these channels converge west of Clarks Island to form a small craft anchorage called the Cowyard approximately 200 yards (180 m) wide with a depth of 20–35 feet (6.1–10.7 m). There is 5-foot (1.5 m) clearance under a 25-foot (7.6 m) fixed span in the Powder Point Bridge to access
21-501: The DYC began in the 1940s. By the end of the 1960s, four blue clay tennis courts were added to the original three. An eighteen-hole golf course was completed in 1976 after the addition of nine holes to the original course. Duxbury Bay Duxbury Bay is a bay on the coast of Massachusetts in the United States . The west shore of the bay is the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts ; and
28-456: The bay is formed by a sandbar called The Gurnet extending southeasterly from Marshfield, Massachusetts into Cape Cod Bay . The town of Marshfield was named for the estuarine wetland at the north end of the bay. The bay opens southerly toward Plymouth, Massachusetts between Captains Hill to the west and Saquish Head to the east. The bay is approximately three miles long from north to south with an average width of two miles. The bottom
35-461: The northern end of the bay. In 1908 The United States Army Corps of Engineers dredged a 6-foot (1.8 m) channel to the Duxbury wharves. A 21-acre anchorage was dredged to 8 feet (2.4 m) in 1960, and the 1 mile (1.6 km) channel is maintained at that depth and a width of 100 feet (30 m). The United States Navy seaplane tender USS Duxbury Bay , in commission from 1944 to 1966,
42-415: Was an activity available to members after the DYC leased fields from J. Knowles Parker's farmland. A six-hole golf course was constructed between 1913 and 1915 on land acquired from the farms of Parker, Peterson, White, and Reynolds. Lawn tennis was played on the private courts of members between 1900 and 1927, until the DYC constructed three courts on its own property. Theatrical stage performances produced by
49-592: Was founded in 1875, but was not incorporated until 1895. The articles of incorporation state, "The purpose for which the corporation is constituted is the encouragement of yachting and athletic exercises. The place in which the corporation is established or located is the Town of Duxbury within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." The club began by offering competitive yachting and sailing recreation in Duxbury Bay . In 1900, golf
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