NORWOOD DAVIS NAMED 1ST COMMODORE OF THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB
on Thursday August 30, 2007 11:48AM
We congratulae former FBYC member and Stove Point resident on the following:
August 30, 2007 - Nantucket, MA - Great Harbor Yacht Club proudly announces the appointment of its first Commodore, Norwood H. Davis, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia and Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Davis, a founding member of the Great Harbor Yacht Club (GHYC) in 2003, has been instrumental in establishing GHYC as a competitive sailing club. He created the celebrity Pro-Am Regatta during Nantucket Race Week and chaired the event for 3 years. He also enlisted Gary Jobson, the pre-eminent ambassador for sailing in the U.S., as GHYC Executive Director of Sailing and Honorary Chairman of Nantucket Race Week.
GHYC is destined to be one of the premier yacht clubs in the northeast. We have a magnificent 3 ½ acre site on Nantucket harbor, a beautiful club house under construction and a terrific membership that is 300 strong. Davis continues, Blake Drexler and Gary McCarthy, founders of the club, had a clear vision of what they want GHYC to be and are doing a great job executing on that vision. I am pleased and proud to be the first commodore for GHYC.
Commodore Davis served as Chairman and CEO of Trigon Healthcare as well as a director of a number of other public and privately held companies. He currently sits on the Boards of several community organizations in the mid Atlantic and on Nantucket including the Mariners Museum, Volvo Ocean Race (Chesapeake), The Science Museum of Virginia, and Nantucket Community Sailing.
Great Harbor Yacht Club is a private equity club that is currently under construction at 96 Washington Street, Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Club includes the newly completed Jobson Sailing Center and the sports barn and boat barn are scheduled to be complete for the 2008 season. The 26000 sq foot Clubhouse will be ready to open its doors for the summer of 2009. The tennis facility located at Nobadeer Farm Road includes 9 tennis courts, a pool and Snack bar. For more information please contact Megan Maltby, Great Harbor Yacht Club, at 508-325-5200.