Jan 16, 2013 10:31 AM
After a group of citizens was forced to give up the fight to resurrect a former sailing club on the shores of Mecox Bay in Water Mill, Southampton Town has taken up the initiative to return boats to the property.
According to Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Chris Bean, the town has plans in the works to eventually offer sailing lessons and storage for about a dozen small sailboats on the 10-acre shorefront property it owns at the end of Bay Lane, the former home of the Mecox Bay Yacht Club.
The initial private effort to revive the sailing tradition on the eastern shore of Mecox, though approved by the Town Board, died in the face of legal challenges by neighbors, who worried that their remote street would become a destination—and were... more
According to Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Chris Bean, the town has plans in the works to eventually offer sailing lessons and storage for about a dozen small sailboats on the 10-acre shorefront property it owns at the end of Bay Lane, the former home of the Mecox Bay Yacht Club.
The initial private effort to revive the sailing tradition on the eastern shore of Mecox, though approved by the Town Board, died in the face of legal challenges by neighbors, who worried that their remote street would become a destination—and were... more
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