Resurgence: Development of the Present Club:

1946-1972:

"... The attitudes of the Thirties were swept away when the warriors returned home in the 'Forties', to re-open the Club officially on July 21st, 1945. It was surprising to many 'old timers' how many of these heroes who had flogged the ocean during the whole war turned at once to sailing what has been called the 'Cruel Sea'.

With the end of World War II, when the Club House was relinquished by the A.F.S. who had commandeered it, the influx of thirsty warriors demanded more and better service, and the more progressive Committee members put up a scheme for the construction of a bar with an attendant servitor to supply instant drinking facilities. The opposition to this innovation on the part of the 'old timers was intense. Turning the place into a common pot-house,' was one of the least offensive objections raised in committee. They reckoned, however, without the skill and persistence of their own members who, once the motion to create a bar was carried by the narrowest majority, immediately set about demolishing part of the Club structure to such an extent that the work had to be completed, and this was entirely by volunteer labour and finance.

At this stage in the history of the Club, which witnessed a renaissance hitherto unequalled or since surpassed, it was indeed most fortunate that the vacant post of Secretary was filled by Captain Mostyn-Williams, M.C. This gentleman was a victim of what is now called Poliomyelitis and was completely without the use of his legs. Yet a more active and indomitable member of society never existed. Without his active co-operation the New Brooms would have had little success in implementing the very necessary reforms in a post-war world.

It was as well that the spirit of reform existed after the last War because a rival Sailing Club was in the process of being established for those who were not prepared to offer themselves as victims of the black-ball ordeal."