Leap Ahead for Summer 2024! Cottage Park Yacht Club Hosts Community Open House

Summer 2024 may seem like a mirage, with weeks of winter gloom still ahead. But a sure sign of warmer weather on the way is Daylight Saving Time’s annual “spring ahead.” To mark this seasonal milepost on the way to summer 2024, Cottage Park Yacht Club is hosting a community Open House on Sunday, March 10.

So, if you’ve been thinking about how to get on the water more this summer, or that it’s finally time to learn to sail, buy that fishing boat, or just spend more afternoons hanging out with friends on the harbor, doors open at 1 p.m. and the party is in the Westerly ballroom.

At the March 10 Open House, you will learn more about the 122-year-old gathering spot, tour the Pilot House pub, the Sunset Bar, the Westerly Ballroom, our bowling alley, gym and marina. Representatives of different programs will be on hand to discuss summertime youth sailing, adult sailing lessons, our kayak and sailboat rental program, mooring and slip facilities, and offer a taste of the broader community that CPYC brings together.

Cottage Park Yacht Club began in 1902 when a group of boat owners bought the ticket office and pier of a defunct steamboat service that had been bringing people to Winthrop each summer. Since then, CPYC has become a center of boating and sailing on Boston Harbor, hosting everything from monthly trivia nights to international regattas in an event calendar that runs throughout the year. The club has a commitment to supporting the community around it, and regularly reaches out to help others through blood drives, food donations, use of its facilities by community groups like the Winthrop High Sailing Team, as well as the centerpiece to its charitable efforts, the annual summer weekend to benefit Make-A-Wish. The club is in a period of physical renewal and member growth. To learn more, email Membership@cpyc.org, and if summers on the water, sunsets on the head pier, after work drinks on the Pilot House deck all sound like a welcome relief after this rainy, cloudy winter, come find out more. The doors open at CPYC, 76 Orlando Ave. in Winthrop, at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 10.