History of the Buzzards
In 1935, a group of Herreshoff owners on Wings Neck and Hospital Cove gathered together to start a racing season to be sailed on Sundays. They chose Sunday as race day so as not to conflict with the Saturday races held at the Beverly Yacht Club in Marion. They called themselves "The Buzzards" after Buzzards Bay. The first races were held in the summer of 1936. In the early years they used a lobster boat as the committee boat, and that tradition has returned in recent years with the addition of the club boat, The Buzzard.
The club started out racing Herreshoffs, Arrowheads, and 110s. Over the years, there have been Widgeon, Laser and Windsurfer races, and today in addition to the Herreshoffs, Bullseyes are part of the race season.
In the mid-sixties, the Buzzards started a sailing school with a fleet of Widgeons. That program has expanded dramatically over the years, and is now run as a separate organization, the Buzzards Sailing School, with instruction in Widgeons, Optimists, and 420's.