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Since 1896
BWYC History Notes
Significant Dates and Times in the 117 year History of Bay-Waveland Yacht Club
BWYC Commodore	
Cary A. Trapani	2013
BWYC Founded	
Commodore T. R. Richardson	1896
New BWYC Clubhouse	
See the 1898 Drawing	1897
GYA Founded and DBA the	
Southern Gulf Coast Yachting	
Association	1901
BWYC became a charter	
Member of the SGCYA or	
the GYA as referred to today	1901
Devastating Hurricane	1915
GYA Reorganized	1920
BWYC Reorganized and DBA	
The Bay-Waveland Yacht and	1921
Athletic Club, President Ernest J.	
Leonard	
BWYC Admitted to GYA	1922
Inactivity set in during the	
Depression years through	
WW II and into the late 1940s	
Devastating Hurricane
1947


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