Prominent Members
The club’s roster of members boasts revered names across the ages in yacht racing such as Charles Francis Adams, skipper of Yankee; Chandler Hovey, whose J Class Yacht Rainbow and Twelve Meter Easterner graced America’s Cup trials; Bradley Noyes, whose Tioga's gained multiple victories, and the legendary Ted Hood, winning skipper of the 1974 America’s Cup aboard the 12 Meter Courageous. 1n 1993, Hood was elected to the America’s Cup Hall of fame. Committed from its incorporation to superior naval architecture, the Eastern's membership has included such celebrated yacht designers and builders as Edward and Starling Burgess, Nathanael and L. Francis Herreshoff, Ray Hunt, and Ted Hood.