1923

In the 1920s, families began to rent homes and spend the whole summer in Edgartown, and in 1923 the Club organized the Edgartown Junior Yacht Club, among the first of its kind, to enable young summer residents to learn sailing, seamanship, racing rules and tactics. Commodore Alexander M. Orr, chairman of the Race Committee from 1925 until 1969, encouraged youngsters to race on the beautiful, expansive, mostly sheltered waters of Katama Bay and outer Edgartown Harbor; boys and girls took to the sport avidly and have benefited from exceptional instruction ever since.