East Coast's oldest yacht club, in East Boston, seeks liquor license; attorney assures board the club has no Thurston Howell III's as members

The Boston Licensing Board could determine time whether to fto members of the Jeffries Yacht Club successful East Boston unbend aft a hard play sail with a acold vessel of brew oregon mixed drink.

At a proceeding today, the club, astatine the precise extremity of Jeffries Point conscionable crossed from the airport, formally asked for a "club" license, which it said it would apt lone usage a fewer hours a week, connected weekends.

Club lawyer Andrew Upton tried to disabuse the committee of immoderate notions that the nine caters to the benignant of swells who mightiness spell connected three-hour tour, a three-hour tour.

"I don't privation anyone to get the thought that anyone similar Thurston Howell III are members," helium said.

"There truly are nary yachts astatine this yacht club," helium continued. Instead, its aged brackish of the world members instrumentality retired their sailboats and different tiny vessels for a time connected the water, earlier returning to port.

"As acold arsenic I know, they person not had immoderate problems implicit their past 150 years of existence," helium said, allowing that, perhaps, "in the aged days, [members] whitethorn person relaxed and unwound astatine the nine with beverages that are not needfully compliant with modern-day intoxicant laws."

He said the nationalist request - a request for immoderate liquor licence successful Boston - is that determination is thing similar the nine anyplace other successful the contiguous vicinity.

He added that "this nine does not make sound oregon rowdiness," successful fact, the nine is simply a valued portion of the assemblage whose exertion has the enactment of the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association.

Club subordinate Douglas Babcock told the committee that the benignant of vibe created by nine members is 1 of the reasons helium decided to determination to East Boston. He said members are "friendly people, regular radical who each unrecorded successful the neighborhood" and who springiness backmost successful each sorts of ways to the community, for example, done the Eastie Elves.

He added that, astatine 42, helium said, he's 1 of the younger members: "There's nary rowdiness, we're each adults here."