The original Fishers Island Yacht club was founded in Hay Harbor in 1886. In 1928, the club moved down the road to West Harbor to slightly south of the same location as it is now, though the marina has expanded from its original solitary dock jutting out into West Harbor to encompass fewer than a dozen rows of slips. The Annex building was the first clubhouse, built in 1867 as a horse barn for the Fox Family. During the 2017/2018 renovation, Lincoln White and Brian Faulkner found several of the original beams with measurements and messages written by the original carpenters just under the more recent sheathing. Though the view from the yacht club changed slightly over the years, the conversations, laughs and friendships found therein are probably almost identical to the ones the club’s first founders enjoyed so many years ago.