Yacht Club fire destroys historic building, but the club will go on!

10:50 PM Tue 18 Jan 2011 GMT

'Edgewood Yacht Club - as she was' .

The members of an historic yacht club whose building was tragically destroyed by fire vow they will rebuild the club, and, though they lost all their sails and other vital items, will not stop sailing in the meantime. Early last Wednesday morning, the 100-year-old clubhouse at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston Rhode Island was destroyed by fire, but some club members even took to the water with borrowed sails that same day to prove their determination. The fire started sometime before 4 a.m. and it took nearly two hours to get the fire under control in the middle of ...

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