Linda Patton is collaborating with Richard Gerrard, a Drogheda historian and author, in researching the history of the Boyne Yacht Club. The yacht club was founded in 1955 by a group of enthusiasts.
These original members carried out a lot of work themselves over the next few years excavating an area for mooring boats and building a clubhouse.
In the early years, member’s boats included National 18s and motorboats. Later the member’s dinghies were mostly Enterprises and there were also sailing cruisers.
Linda and Richard are gathering as much information as they can and they are looking through old newspapers and talking to previous members. They hope to publish the results of their research.
Linda’s parents, Aileen and Moir Patton, were members of the Boyne Yacht Club from circa 1959 until the 1970s, and Linda has many memories of the club and sailing on the Boyne. Her parent’s first dinghy was an International 12, shown with them aboard in the photograph dated 1959. In 1960 they progressed to an IDRA 14, and finally an Enterprise, before moving from dinghies to sailing cruisers.
Linda and Richard are asking for anyone who has memories of the Boyne Yacht Club, or old photographs that they could use, to contact them. Perhaps they did not belong to the Boyne Yacht Club but attended events there.
Or maybe there are photographs of Boyne Yacht Club Members sailing or attending regattas elsewhere?
Linda Patton can be contacted at 087 2569601 email [email protected]
Richard Gerrard can be contacted at 087 9763689 email [email protected]
