The HRYC Commodores Association serves as a repository of knowledge and experience to support the current HRYC Officers, Board and Committee Chairs in the execution of their duties. It provides a ready source of current and historical information that has application to HRYC ongoing operations and the customs and traditions of yachting. The organization is directly responsible for the annual Change of Watch ceremony and is highly involved in the other protocol events. All past HRYC Commodores are eligible for full membership in the organization. Current officers are: Glen Wagner, President; Bill Masters, Vice President; and Dave Huff, Secretary/Treasurer. CLICK here to see PAST COMMODORES.

Halifax River Yacht Club Commodores Association Associates (HRYCCAA)

The mission of the HRYCCAA organization has remained the same since its founding; to support all protocol activities of HRYC and to ensure that the customs, traditions, and protocols of the Club are carried forward in perpetuity.

History
The HRYCC Associates is a descendant of the International Order of the Blue Gavel Auxiliary (IOBGA) which also had members in three Countries outside of the U.S. in the late 19802. The HRYC IOBGA was founded in 1987 and chartered in 2007. Pat Cleland was the first President of the group and she went on to become the President of the International Order of the Blue Gavel Auxiliary. Members of the Smyrna Beach Yacht Club met with them at HRYC as they had not yet formed a Chapter in their Club. The later formed their own organization in their Club in 2000.

Membership in their Chapter then was limited to the wives of the HRYC Chapter of the Order of the Blue Gavel. Only Past Commodores wives were eligible to be members. In 2003 member Martha Halling became the first woman Commodore in the history of HRYC and in 2015 member Margaret Yaeger became the second woman HRYC Commodore. 2006-2007 President of our IOBGA Louise Redner was elected to become the 2008 Florida State IOBGA Secretary.

In 2009, the HRYC Chapter of IOBG dropped out of Blue Gavel and joined the Florida Commodores Association and as a consequence, our IOBGA became the Halifax River Commodores Association Associates. They organized in 2012 and Audrey Ottenstein became the first President of this newly named group. Membership criteria was changed to include wives/significant others of not only Past Commodores, but those of the current Commodore, the Vice Commodore and the Rear Commodore. Later the Fleet Captain’s wife or significant other was included in the membership ranks.

In 2019, the Halifax River Chapter of the Florida Commodores Association dropped out of the State FCA and the group became what they are presently, the Halifax River Yacht Club Commodores Association Associates. The first President of this group was Kelly Wagner.

Reference the by-laws for more details about the HRYCCAA.

Year	President	VP	Treasurer	Secretary
2021	Kelly Wagner	Julie Brown	Loretta Arthur	Louise Redner
2020	Kelly Wagner	Julie Brown	Loretta Arthur	Louise Redner
2019	Kelly Wagner	JacQuie Richardson	Loretta Arthur	Louise Redner
2018	Loretta Arthur	Katy Bullock	Margaret Yaeger	Louise Redner
2017	Sherri McQuarie	Loretta Arthur	Margaret Yaeger	Louise Redner
2016	Sherri McQuarie	Loretta Arthur	Margaret Yaeger	Louise Redner
2015	Becky Becker	Sherri McQuarie	Margaret Yaeger	Louise Redner
2014	Becky Becker	Sherri McQuarie	Margaret Yaeger	Louise Redner
2013	Miss Aud	Becky Becker	Margaret Yaeger	Carol Adamek
2012	Miss Aud	Becky Becker	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2011	Freda Coughlin	Betsy McQuoid	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2009	Carole Ford	Freda Coughlin	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2008	Carole Ford	Freda Coughlin	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2007	Louise Redner	Carole Ford	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2006	Louise Redner	Carole Ford	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2005	Ester Coley	Louise Render	Rose Lauer	Carol Adamek
2004	Ester Coley	Louise Render	Daisey Davis	Carol Adamek
2003	Bea Pyle	Ester Coley	Daisey Davis	Carol Adamek
2002	Bea Pyle	Ester Coley	Daisey Davis	Carol Adamek
2001	Bev Wichmann	Bea Pyle	Daisey Davis	Carol Adamek
2000	Bev Wichmann	Bea Pyle	Daisey Davis	Carol Adamek