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Who We Are

The Club The Blue Water Cruising Club is a non-profit corporation founded in 1945 and has leased the shore facilities at Big Geiger Cove since 1953. The Blue Water Cruising Club maintains no mainland facilities and its focus is the use and maintenance of the Cove facilities for members and their families. The Club is small, limited to no more than 55 boats and their owners, to ensure that all members have the opportunity to use the Cove and the facilities, even during the busiest summer weekends. The club is not full and is accepting applications for membership.

About Membership

The Blue Water Cruising Club is a non-profit corporation originally organized by a group of friends and continued by a group of new and old friends to lease Big Geiger Cove on Catalina Island, maintain minimal facilities there, and organize activities throughout the year. The Club has no employees, maintains no mainland facilities, and accomplishes everything it does through the physical efforts of the members. At the Cove there are no moorings and all boats anchor using bow and stern anchors. There is no dock at the Cove and all landings are by dinghy, kayak. or swimming to the beach.

History

Charles "Bud" Martin (11/11/1905 - 9/28/1997), member #1, and the founder of the Blue Water Cruising Club, said: "Immediately after World War II, cruising among the islands (and particularly around Catalina) was open to all of us so, there was never need to have your own cove - you were free to go where you wished. Time, and the great migration westward, eliminated the freedom we once experienced, so the necessity for leasing the cove, which we affectionately call 'Big Geiger,' became paramount to all of us. The yearly leasing of the cove from the Catalina Island Company started in 1953."

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