BASS RIVER YACHT CLUB
Bass River is one of the oldest yachting and racing centers on the Cape. Given two sailing vessels within sight of each other and headed roughly in the same direction, you have a race. So, with the advent of summer visitors sailing for pleasure in the 1890’s, it is hardly surprising that such casual contests evolved into planned and scheduled racing over a designated course and gained enough attention to have been noted in historical records. This activity does not, of course, constitute a yacht club, and thus the entry in Lloyd’s Register of American yachts for 1975, page 659, under Yacht and Sailing Clubs showing that the Bass River Yacht Club was organized in 1896 may be considered more enthusiastic than accurate. The formal organization of a yacht club in Bass River, with a name, a burgee, an elected Commodore, and meetings of the membership had to wait another 35 year.