Community Boating is established.

Originally the Community Boat Club, it is founded in May by Joseph Lee Jr. and is located initially at Percival Watt’s Boathouse on the Charlesbank. The first public community sailing program in the U.S., it begins as a summer program to introduce poor and working-class children from the West End to the upper-class sport of sailing. The club begins with 100 members and seven boats. After a series of demonstrations on and around Beacon Hill, it is allowed to use the public dock in front of the Union Boat Club in 1938, then moves to its own new boathouse in 1941.* Incorporated in 1946, it continues today with more than 4,000 senior members, 2,500 junior members, and some 120 boats.