Cape Egmont Boat Club
Our Club is a hive of activity, a true rural community with a heart of Safe Boating and Happy Fishing.
Over Summer we are open Friday nights for dinner or just a social drink or two as the sun sets.
We have a great collection of Annual Competitions and can not thank our Sponsors enough for all that they contribute.
History of the Club
The idea of a boat club was established when three local men were surfcasting off a flat rock in Greenways Bay, on the left side of the bay at low tide, casting as far as they could. This of course was never far enough and they came up with the idea that they should form a boat club to improve the Bayly Road boat race (Whanganui waka), as it was quite narrow and dangerous. So it was all go down the Bayly. There were a few phone calls made to a few more locals and a meeting (7 in total) was held at one of the men’s houses on March 6 1961.
The boat club was therefore firmly established and quite a number of people joined up. Payment for subscriptions was one pound each. This helped enable the club to finance buying a tractor for boat launching purposes. This time ten members donated five pounds each to allow the club to complete the purchase as a suitable tractor had been found.
By November 1962 the club was progressing well with the boat race and tractor being used as often as conditions would allow.
A clubhouse was built some years later in 1974 when the committee decided to proceed with a 20 x 20 foot concrete block building in memory of the late George Cockburn who was the club’s secretary for seven years and also at the time of his death.
The new facility had cost $1200 and was built partly from timber from an old house which had been given to the club. This was all constructed by volunteers from the community.As the new clubhouse became a talking point of the community so did the popularity and growth of memberships. As they say the rest is history!