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M. Sally Carswall -6 distance of their homeB, In 19^5 » boat-minded West Vaacou7eritea got togehter to plan a yacht club. By the winter of 19^ they had drafted a constitu- tion and the West Vancouver Yacht club was formed, with six charter members. The first Sail Fast was held on the third Sunday in May, 19^, at Sandy Cove, At this time they had no permanet site or Club House; meetings were held when and where possible, and beach parties at Sandy Cove, By 19^7, the membership had grown to eighty-four, and the hunt for a Club site went on. Several areas were consideredâ€"Caulfi^, Sandy Cove, Li^thouse Parkâ€"but each presented obstacles. By 19^9, the Club had one hudred and thirty-eight members and thirty boats, but still no Club site. In 1950 a group of members formed a syndicate, which pur- chased property in Fisherman's Cove, which was then offered to the West Vancouver Yacht Club for their operation end control, in return for basic priveliges for the syndicate members; and so the Yacht Club finally secured a site and Club House, In 1951, "in a driving rain and wind storm, which could not damped the enthusiasm of the members, the official dedication was held and a ribbon accross the shore ramp was cut by Mrs, Fletcher, wife of the ‘West Vancouver Reeve," end so the West Vancouver Yacht Club 20 was established at Fisherman’s Cove, Membership grew rapidly and each year its annual colourful Sail Past attracted m ore and more.. In 1964, it unfurled its season "with a pic- turesque flourish of two hundred yachts and cruisers, worth more than two million dollars, in their Sunday Sail Past , . , fifteen hundred members of yachting families sailed out of Fisherman's Cove, up past Batchelor Cove, V/hytecliffe and Snug Cove, in a huge circle, saluting 21 their Commodore as they passed," So, from the dream of a few people -r'-f