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was organized in 1921. BWYC reorganized in 1921 was admitted to the GYA in 1922 which today has some 27 member yacht clubs.
BWYC won its first GYA Junior Lipton Cup Championship in 1963 and later that same year won its first GYA Sir Thomas J. Lipton Cup Championship. Since that time BWYC has won the Lipton Cup Championship title 19 more times totaling 20 wins which is more outright wins that any other yacht club in the Gulf Yachting Association. Only Southern Yacht Club has 18 outright wins with 3 ties for first place essentially giving them 21 wins counting the 3 ties for first place. Competition for the GYA Lipton Cup Championship began in 1920.
It is most noteworthy too that BWYC and its sailing competitors have earned 27 national sailing championships spanning a period of 34 years from 1977 to the present 2011. The first one came in 1977 when Cindy Stieffel, Amy Chapman and Judy Reeves won the United States Women’s Sailing Championship for the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Cup and the latest on came in 2011 when Andrew Eagan and Jackson Benvenutti won the Flying Scot North American Sailing Championship. That is an impressive bit of history for a small yacht club in the small town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
More recently this October 9-15, 2011 Southern Yacht Club hosted the 64 boat 12 race highly competitive J/22 World Championship. It was impressive to see how many members and former members of BWYC participated and how well they did in that elite competition. A team from Texas won the event and a team from New York placed 2nd in the event. Andrew Eagan and Marcus Eagan with their skipper Allan Terhune, Jr. placed 3rd in the championship. Zak Fanberg, Peter Gambel and Eugene Schmitt placed 7th overall. Dwight LeBlanc, III, Beau LeBlanc and Shelby Friedrichs placed 10th. Dwight and Beau were junior members of BWYC in the 1970s. Richard Heausler, Christopher Chamberlain and Kett Cummins placed 15th. Peter Merrifield, Sean Clare and Steve Bellows placed 25th. Peter was a renowned sailing competitor of BWYC in the 1970s and 80s.
Later in this month of October 2011, Andrew Eagan, Marcus Eagan, Anne Edwards and Todd Edwards will be competing in the United States Championship of Champions hosted by the Corinthian Sailing Club on White Rock Lake at Dallas, Texas. It will be in Flying Scots with 20 elite one design sailing champions competing for the Jack Brown Trophy. This event is designed to determine the best of the best.
The following pictures relate well to the rich in history story of Bay-Waveland Yacht Club: