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History of the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club
The Bay-Waveland Yacht Club was founded in 1896. Newspapers of the day describe its first annual regatta and the name of the commodore, a gentleman named Richardson. The club house, constructed at a cost of $2,500 and described as a double-story over the water with “water works and departments for accomodations of ladies as well as for gentlemen," was formally opened in 1897 with a ball in the grand style.
In 1901 the BWYC became a charter member of the Southern Gulf Coast Yachting Association, but a hurricane destroyed the club's facility in 1915, resulting in decreased activity and no dues collection.
The BWYC was reorganized in 1921 as the Bay-Waveland Yacht and Athletic Club and admitted to the Gulf Yachting Association in 1922. Inactivity set in during the depression years and continued through World War II and into the late 1940’s.
The club was reorganized again in 1949 by a group of yachtsmen and civic leaders with John Bell serving as commodore, and a clubhouse was built on the present location. In 1963, BWYC won its first Junior and also its first Senior Lipton title. Today club members are active regionally and nationally as both competitors and administrators.
Club members are proud to be part of the long tradition of yachting on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a way of life that has survived hurricanes, wars, epidemics, and hard times. The 1989 Lipton Regatta, twenty years after Hurricane Camille devastated this area, is a special celebration for yachting.
Compiled from various sources by
Comm. Walter Chamberlain. BWYC Historian
Historical Coincidences
1) Southern Yacht Club, trustee of the Lipton Trophy, was founded in 1849; 2) the trophy was promised to Southern in 1919 and was first competed for in 1920; 3) host BWYC, founded in 1896, was resurrected and reorganized in 1949.
Therefore, we are attending the 70th Lipton Regatta, sailing for a trophy donated to the trustee in her 70th year, hosted by a club in her 40th year of reorganization accomplished in the 100th year of the trustee, and the trustee is now 140 years, twice as old as the regatta. How’s that for some intertwined history!
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