In 1865 a group of men using a one-story building perched high on pilings formed the Carteret Boat Club, naming it after Lord Carteret, a governor of East Jersey. The Club was located on Front Street between Gordon and Market Streets, where the modern municipal marina is now located. In 1874 another group formed the Perth Amboy Yacht Club. These men were primarily interested in sailing. They owned fast sailboats of the sandbagger type, and they wanted organized sailing races. Both of these clubs soon fell on hard economic times, and merged in 1882 to form the Raritan Yacht Club. New two-story club structure built 1905, burned 1915. Club purchased the Cooper Estate in 1916, moving to Cooper's Slip pier.
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