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	Schooner Cove Yacht Club History

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A quarter century ago a small group of sailing enthusiasts, ragbaggers all, whose craft were moored at Schooner Cove, formed a loose association to race informally and to cruise together. They called themselves the Schooner Cove United Mariners, which easily contracted to SCUM, an acronym in which its members took a sort of perverse satisfaction.

The founding members of SCUM, scummers one and all, were a mixed lot, some living locally and some in Port Alberni. All but a few have either moved away, swallowed the anchor, or crossed John Masefield's bar to that final peaceful anchorage to which we all must navigate.

Inevitably the membership grew, and in time it became necessary to get more organized, to admit stinkpotters, to arrange reciprocal moorages, hold formal meetings, and set up committees. This could hardly be done with a name like SCUM, and against the sentiment of the original scummers, the Schooner Cove Yacht Club came into being.

Thanks to the dedication of the founding members and many of their successors, we have come a long way since then, but it is well that we should remember our beginnings and the people who made it all possible.

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