"[2] Committee Chairs direct specific club activities and operations; e.g., finance, property, and entertainment.

The articles of incorporation state, "The purpose for which the corporation is constituted is the encouragement of yachting and athletic exercises.

"[2] The club began by offering competitive yachting and sailing recreation in Duxbury Bay.

In 1900, golf was an activity available to members after the DYC leased fields from J. Knowles Parker's farmland.

A six-hole golf course was constructed between 1913 and 1915 on land acquired from the farms of Parker, Peterson, White, and Reynolds.