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Winter Hill Yacht Club Turns 100

L to R front row: E-Board Joe Dunne, Commodore Bill Rogers and Vice Commodore Joe Basile. Back row: E-Board William Tauro, Frank Palmisano, Bob Foley, Cynthia Snow Murphy, Ken Webber, Chairman Ray Snow and Peder Acres.

By William Tauro

Somerville’s only yacht club, the Winter Hill Yacht Club, turned 100 years old this year. Members of the century old club celebrated this past Saturday evening with a formal centennial gala in the club’s main ballroom.

The biggest story of April 1912 was the sinking of the Titanic. In the same month of that year, Boston Baseball fans flocked to the official opening of Fenway Park, “The mammoth plant with commodious fittings,” which also celebrates its centennial this year.

On April 10, 1912, Commodore Robert K. Jenner, Treasurer Everett Williams Bray, Clerk Otis W Rogers, Secretary Austin C. Wallace and Executive Committee member Willis J. March, James W. Dixon, William A. O’Kane, Ambrose W. Isele and Henry J. Donnelly personally appeared before the Secretary of the Commonwealth. These original members attested that the Winter Hill Yacht Club was “constituted for the purpose of yachting and athletic exercise and to acquire such property real and personal as such be useful in promoting the same and to manage and administer and dispose of such property under the laws of Massachusetts in the bylaws of the club in the interest of such purpose.”

The 10th day of April 1912 and 8:00 p.m. at 608 Mystic Ave., Somerville, was appointed the time and place of holding the first meeting. The commissioner of Corporations approved a Certificate of Organization for the Winter Hill Yacht Club the first day of May, nineteen hundred and twelve.

In 1966, with the construction of and making room for the new Interstate Route 93, the yacht club was relocated down river to its present location on Foley Street.

Today the Winter Hill Yacht Club’s membership has risen with hundreds of members and it has become a landmark within the city that reaches out to the community with its much welcomed community involvement programs for the city’s elderly as well as its disabled veteran programs and activities.

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Boat Sinks At Winter Hill Yacht Club In Somerville

SOMERVILLE, MA – A motor boat docked at the Winter Hill Yacht Club sank into the Mystic River Wednesday morning, the Somerville Fire Department said. Emergency crews responded to the club around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday and found the boat at one of the docks.

Firefighters put booms in the river to contain leaking fluids and collected items that had floated out of the boat, according to the department.

The Coast Guard, Department of Conservation and Recreation and Department of Environmental Protection assisted with the cleanup effort.

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Boat sinks at winter hill yacht club in somerville, emergency crews worked to contain fluids and items from the boat that were leaking into the mystic river wednesday..

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SOMERVILLE, MA – A motor boat docked at the Winter Hill Yacht Club sank into the Mystic River Wednesday morning, the Somerville Fire Department said. Emergency crews responded to the club around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday and found the boat at one of the docks.

Firefighters put booms in the river to contain leaking fluids and collected items that had floated out of the boat, according to the department.

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SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Fire crews rushed to contain a fire that broke out on a boat on the Mystic River in Somerville on Wednesday.

Firefighters could be seen spraying the flames from the dock while another crew in a fire boat worked to keep the fire from spreading to nearby vessels at the Winter Hill Yacht Club on Artisan Way.

Witnesses said it appeared the fire broke out in the area of a blue tarp on the back of the boat. The blaze cast a large plume of black smoke across the area.

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