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Hudson River Boat & Yacht Club Association (HRBYCA)

The Hudson River Boat & Yacht Club Association, Inc. (HRBYCA) was established in April 1975 and incorporated in the State of New York on March 16, 1999.

It was organized as an advocate for the more than 5,000 boaters of our 33 member clubs and for the purpose of:

• Maintaining a constant study of all things pertinent to the boating lifestyle, other recreational use of the Hudson River and improving conditions thereon;
• Promoting increased inter-club activity among various clubs on the Hudson River;
• Encouraging and furthering education relative to boating, navigation and boater safety;
• Cooperating with all government agencies concerned with the management and regulation of the Hudson River;
• And with boating matters in general.

Reciprocation Policy between MHCYC & HRBYCA.

Please remember reciprocation is offered as a courtesy, not all clubs may have the facilities or available dock space to accept your vessel. All attempts will be made to provide Members one complimentary overnight stay at a participating Member Club.

Contact the respective club you wish to reciprocate with to ensure they can/will provide dockage within the reciprocal program.

Document the advance notice with a reservation and if requested, provide a current membership card upon arrival.

HRYBCA  Hudson River Boating Guide. 

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Looking Back in Beacon

150 years ago (august 1874).

Charles Watts, a machinist, and James Coleman, 13, swam from Newburgh to Dennings Point, a little over 1¼ mile, in an hour.

Philip Smith, the editor of the Pawling Pioneer , put a call out for material for what became the General History of Duchess County, from 1609 to 1876, Inclusive .

Prospectors continued their search for iron ore in the Fishkill Mountains east of Dutchess Junction.

Some of the iron recovered from the vessel of two men arrested in Poughkeepsie and accused of being river pirates came from Fishkill Landing.

A deckhand was kicked in the mouth aboard the Union ferryboat by an unruly cow.

Walter Brown, 8, drowned in the reservoir of the new hat works.

The Hudson River Railroad adopted a new method of collection: The conductor punched tickets, and the collector followed behind to take them.

An iron box supposed to contain Capt. Kidd’s treasure was discovered in the creek. After a great effort to get it ashore, it turned out to be a mill door made of oak and bound with heavy strips of iron. It was 3 feet by 5 feet and weighed about 1,000 pounds. “Visions of sudden wealth vanished in an instant,” said The Cold Spring Recorder.

James Jones, the street sprinkler, closed his business for lack of funds.

Jonn Jones, 16, lost the tip of three fingers to a hay cutter.

John Haley, who lost a leg to a train at Dutchess Junction, sued the Hudson River Railroad Co. for $10,000 [about $275,000 today].

A contractor was hired to carefully disassemble a wooden bridge at Matteawan to recover the materials but instead demolished it.

A passenger on the Newburgh ferry, while checking the time, dropped his $35 [$1,000] pocket watch into the river.

An alcohol lamp exploded at the Seamless Clothing factory, seriously burning a carpenter named Divine, who was blamed for the accident.

Fishkill Bay was filled on a Sunday afternoon with rowboats, sailboats, yachts and miniature steamers.

A 16-year-old Fishkill boy arrested for stealing a $10 [$275] accordion was sentenced to six months in jail. His 8-year-old brother was not charged.

Citing prices that had fallen by nearly 70 percent, brickyard owners said they would close unless workers accepted a reduction in pay.

At Fishkill Landing, a husband who kept a “whiskey ranch” [distillery] began breaking the dishes during a fight with his wife. According to a news report, she “asserted the supremacy of women’s rights” by knocking him down with a single punch and choking him until he surrendered.

The highway commissioners decided to erect an iron post bridge at Fountain Street. They awarded the job to Mr. Hutchinson, who bid $2,225 [$61,000].

The 43-year-old Fishkill Journal changed its name to the Matteawan Journal .

After a creditor seized the assets of the Sluthoun & Son’s Circus during its stop in Fishkill Landing, the performers who remained in town after losing their jobs organized a troupe that performed a sold-out show at Swift’s Hall in Newburgh.

125 Years Ago (August 1899)

The Beacon Hose Co. chartered the Emeline for a moonlight family excursion.

While digging a ditch, a farmer near Newburgh discovered what appeared to be the bones of a mastodon. He declined an offer from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to buy them.

Barton Fitzsimmons died at the General Hospital at Fishkill Landing after being stricken with hiccoughs [hiccups] for five days.

Members of the Matteawan yacht club traveled to New York City to retrieve its new boat, the Matteawan.

Michael Hora was shot in the chest at a brickyard, renewing tensions between Black and Arab workers, but declined to name the assailant. The New-York Tribune claimed that more trouble was expected because every worker “carries a large revolver.”

Rosanna Wakeman of Newburgh died of blood poisoning after she pared her corns too closely with a razor.

100 Years Ago (August 1924)

In swimming races at Dennings Point organized by the Beacon Playground Association and the Beacon Journal , T.W. Wilson of Cold Spring won the half-mile men’s race, followed by Frank Cassidy of Beacon. Stella Moranski of Beacon was second in the girls’ 50-yard dash.

The Trinity Council of the Knights of Columbus celebrated its 25th anniversary by hosting a 10-act vaudeville show and dance at Mount Beacon.

The Forrestal Company was awarded a $50,000 [$918,000] contract to construct a chapel at Hiddenbrooke, the Ursuline novitiate for Roman Catholic nuns.

The former Gotham Straw Works on Wiltsie Avenue reopened under the management of Abramson and Sherman, manufacturers of boys’ wash suits and clothing novelties. It had 125 employees and a $2,500 [$46,000] weekly payroll.

After John Clifton contracted in 1922 to sell his property at 610-616 Main St. to John Jakubiel, former Mayor Samuel Beskin sued, saying Clifton had promised the place to him. Soon after, Clifton died, but the lawsuit delayed probate until January 1924, when Beskin also died. Jakubiel immediately sued both estates for the deed and, citing the 1922 contract, moved himself in. Clifton’s widow, Sadie, tried to get him evicted, but a state judge ruled he could stay.

Two Englishmen arrested near Beacon and lodged in the county jail on suspicion they were illegal immigrants from Canada appealed for help from the British consul in New York City, saying they hoped to become U.S. citizens.

Mrs. Harry B. Rockefeller, aka Frieda Cooper, recanted her accusations against four men she claimed assaulted her on a Staten Island beach. She said that, after leaving her husband in Beacon nine weeks earlier, she became a performer on Coney Island.

Construction on the $190,000 [$3.5 million] Melzingah Dam was completed.

The state awarded 10 scholarships, valued at $100 [$1,800] annually, to Dutchess County students to attend the University of the State of New York based on their Regent’s test scores. Nine were from Poughkeepsie and one, Joseph Sherman of 309 Main St., from Beacon.

A 47-year-old man who had served time in Sing Sing was arrested on charges of carrying an unlicensed gun after he allegedly threatened to shoot his wife.

Two Newburgh men arrested on Mount Beacon for disorderly conduct were fined $15 [$275] each by a city judge. They were then brought before another city judge and fined $35 [$645] each for disorderly conduct at the police station.

The Poughkeepsie Eagle-News reported that Barbara Rutherford Hatch, 29, a socialite whose marriage to Morton Hargis, a man “known to the police of many cities,” caused a scandal in New York City, had recently been a patient at the Craig House sanitarium. A stepdaughter of William Vanderbilt, she was “identified by her lavish display of jewelry.” After her treatment, Hatch retreated to her $200,000 [$3.7 million] summer home in Nyack, where she was a devotee of Pierre Bernard, a yogi known as Oom, the Omnipotent.

75 Years Ago (August 1949)

During the conspiracy trial of 11 leaders of the Communist Party of the United States, the judge said he would jail witnesses who refused to identify other party members. The admonition came as Samuel Hall, an organizer from Alabama, was testifying about a school for southern Communists he attended in 1946 at Camp Beacon. The prosecutor asked the judge to dismiss Hall unless he would name the party members who ran the school.

A Poughkeepsie woman was arrested for disorderly conduct after she had a Beacon taxi take her home, then told the driver she didn’t have the $5 [$92] fare.

The Beacon Bears football club announced it would open its season by hosting the Peekskill Indians.

The firefighters defeated the police, 3-2, in a donkey baseball game at Memorial Field.

Joe Vallo shot a 71 (+3) to repeat as Southern Dutchess Country Club champ.

The boxer Melio Bettina forfeited a $2 [$25] bond when he failed to appear in court following his arrest for sitting in his parked car on Garden Street at 3:55 a.m. with the headlights off.

There had been no polio cases since Jan. 1 in Beacon, although Poughkeepsie reported 19. The only fatality in Dutchess County had been a 16-year-old Hyde Park boy.

Burglars stole $3,150 [$42,000] worth of motion-picture equipment from the Beacon Hills sanitorium on Wolcott Avenue that was used to entertain patients.

50 Years Ago (August 1974)

Four Beacon men in their 20s were indicted on charges that they held up the A-1 Delicatessen on Old Glenham Road for $380 [$2,400].

Officials at the Matteawan State Hospital said they would review security procedures after an inmate escaped during a visit to St. Francis Hospital. Guards had removed the prisoner’s handcuffs so he could use the men’s room; soon after, he was seen sprinting out the front door.

A team of Beacon all-stars faced the barnstorming King and His Court in a softball game to benefit youth sports. The four-man team was Eddie “The King” Feigner, whose fastball had been clocked at 100 mph, catcher Eddie Feigner Jr., first baseball Al Jackson (who hit 94 home runs the previous season) and shortstop Gary West.

Herman Osten, the publisher of the Beacon Free Press and three other papers, settled a complaint by the U.S. Department of Labor that he had failed to pay overtime, employed “oppressive child labor” and permitted advertising that violated the Age Discrimination Act. He said the charges involved $226.40 [$1,400] in back pay, an ad that sought “young men” and teenage carrier delivery of business flyers separate from the newspaper.

Mayor Robert Cahill was not a fan of a training center proposed by city firemen for a Simmons Lane parcel formerly used by the sewage treatment plant. “They won’t get any money from the city,” he said. The firefighters hoped to construct a facility like one operated by the county in Hyde Park.

Sanford Cohen, a 31-year-old Beacon High School teacher, said he had collected three times the signatures required to get his name on the ballot as the Free Libertarian Party candidate for the 25th Congressional district. He planned to challenge Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., the Republican incumbent. The Poughkeepsie Journal noted that Cohen had been “inundating the media with daily news releases and position papers.”

Engineers spent two days searching for a break in a line in the Glenham Water District before it was found in an Interstate 84 embankment.

Dutchess County Executive William Bartles said he had a few issues with a “sunshine law” proposed by Legislator Glenn Houghtalin (R-Beacon), namely that it did not apply to political caucuses, where he said most decisions were made, and required 24-hour public notice for meetings between two or more county officials discussing policy.

Peter Allen, who owned the Mount Beacon Incline Railway, which had closed in 1972, said he was inspecting the facilities to see if they could be reopened.

The Dutchess health commissioner wanted the county to absorb the city-operated health department, noting that it could provide Beacon with mosquito control, regular restaurant inspections and nursing services.

An “emotionally impaired” convicted killer last seen mopping the kitchen floor at the Matteawan State Hospital was missing during a 10 p.m. bed check. Bloodhounds could find no scent on the prison’s 900-acre grounds. Weeks later, he was still at large.

A 58-year-old woman was struck and killed by a taxicab in the parking lot of the Grand Union on Main Street on a Friday evening. The driver said she hit the gas instead of the brake.

An engineer at the Texaco Research Center in Beacon disputed as “patently untrue” a claim by the Sono-Tek Co. of Poughkeepsie that it had invented a small, $200 [$1,300] device that improved furnace efficiency by 35 percent through sound waves. The engineer said the savings from the Ultrasonic Fuel Atomizer would be closer to ½ of 1 percent.

A Plattekill teenager celebrating his 17th birthday broke his arm when an Amtrak train passing through the Beacon station snagged his coat. Police said he had been standing at the platform’s edge while “fooling around” with friends.

Charles Schell, a physical education teacher and golf coach at Beacon High School, moonlighted as an official for the newly created World Football League, which he noted as “here to stay.” Schell had officiated football, soccer, baseball and basketball for 24 years.

25 Years Ago (August 1999)

A man accused of smoking a crack pipe in the Grand Union parking lot was charged with resisting arrest after he allegedly fought with officers.

The Conservation Advisory Commission organized volunteers to monitor Fishkill Creek for sewage and silt.

The city applied for $400,000 [$755,000] from the state Clean Air/Clean Water Bond Act, including $61,000 for a skateboard park.

A southbound tug dragging its anchor ruptured two gas transmission lines in the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, creating a bubbling spray. Boats dispatched by the Dutchess County sheriff caught up with the tug just north of the Newburgh-Beacon bridge, stopping it about 100 feet shy of an underwater power line.

A lack of rain caused the salt line — the dividing line in the river between sea and freshwater — to advance as far as Mile 72, near the IBM plant in the Town of Poughkeepsie. It typically stayed south of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.

Two 18-year-old men were pulled over by a police officer about three minutes after they stole a station wagon parked on Fishkill Avenue.

Wilfredo Morel created a grassroots group called Comite mi Gente, or Committee of My People, to unify the city’s Hispanic residents.

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