The Everitt Bowl is awarded each season to an outstanding junior sailor in the Bellport Bay Yacht Club summer series. To separate junior sailors from the PHRF boats that dominated competition in the Monday and Thursday evening series, a Wednesday evening series for juniors was added to the club schedule in 1996. John Everitt donated the trophy in memory of his mother, Eleanor Cromwell Field Everitt, nicknamed “Billie” to commemorate the special role that mothers play in support of their children who race. As a teen, “Billie” competed in club races. After marriage to Ted Everitt, she supported him and their two children in all their racing activity. John’s mother won a parent’s race, and she and Ted swept the series in the Beatle Cat that young John complained was slow when he sailed!

2022    Costa Reverberi

2021    Anders Johnsen

2020    Anders Johnsen

2019    Mairead Reitzel

2018    Izadora Meares

2017    Violet Gordon

2016    Violet Gordon

2015    Owen Himsworth

2014    Caroline Callender

2013    Charlotte Callender

2012    Finn Rauch

2011    Kai Rauch

2010    J. C. Hermus

2009    J. C. Hermus

2008    Liza O’Connor

2007    Liza O’Connor

2006    Liza O’Connor

2005    Jack Hanly

2004    Andy Monzón

2003    David C. Hatzopoulos

2002    Zachary O'Brien

2001    Not raced for

2000    Keisha Pearson

1999    Eric J. Everitt

1998    Eric J. Everitt

1997    Zach Motl

1996    Eric J. Everitt

The Alistair Anderson Bowl was donated by Joel Furman in 1984 as a memorial to Al Anderson for his support of Bellport Bay Yacht Club and for preserving BBYC history by compiling the 75th Anniversary book. The bowl is awarded, upon the decision of the Officers and Trustees, to a young person who has made significant and outstanding contributions to the club.

2021    Brynn Johnsen

2020

2019

2018    Eva Leggett

2017     Not awarded

2016     Zach Blumenthal

2015     Isabella Holker

2014     Hannah Pokorny

2013     Sarah Hermus

2012     Liza O’Connor

2011     Pierce Conlin

2010     Rachel Pokorny

2009     Howie Meyers

2008     Andrea Leelike

2007     Remy Leelike

2006     Michael Meade

2005     Peter Hatzopoulos

2004     David C. Hatzopoulos

2003     Michael Meade

2002     Not awarded

2001     Keisha Pearson

2000     Zachary Motl

1999     Zachary Motl

1998     Ashley Dwyer & Zachary Motl

1997     Not awarded

1996     Not awarded

1995     Not awarded

1994     Not awarded

1993     Not awarded

1992     Not awarded

1991     Not awarded

1990     Not awarded

1989     Not awarded

1988     Not awarded

1987     Not awarded

1986     Christian Cutter

Since 1972, recipients of the Commodore Paul Bigelow Memorial Award are outstanding individuals, who have shown great sportsmanship and devoted great energy and time to Bellport Bay Yacht Club over a period of years. Officers and Trustees of the club determine the outstanding member whose significant devotion to BBYC maintains and promotes sailing and racing the club. The award originated on September 25, 1960, when on his 97th and final birthday, Paul Bigelow presented binoculars to the Officers of the Club for a “Sailor of the Year Award”, with the stipulation that it be awarded to an outstanding Bellport sailor who competed in a class of at least 6 boats and in at least 6 races. At a May 7, 1961 meeting, the Board of Trustees intended to continue it as an annual award and appointed a committee to design and have cast a bronze sculpted plaque as a memorial to Paul Bigelow in appreciation of his outstanding sportsmanship and devotion to sailing on Great South Bay for a period of more than 50 years. During his life, 1893-1961, Bigelow served as Commodore of the Club from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1933 to 1936. He raced Bee the P Class boat, Pauline an R Class boat, Kittery an AA Class boat, and Gadget and Aim, both Star Class boats. Haste Redall, Commodore at the time, chaired the committee and worked with members Theodore T. Everitt, Robert B. Lea, William Hanaway, and Dr. Merrill N. Foote to dedicate the plaque in 1961.

2018    Karen Maust

2011     Julio Morales

2008     Edmund G. Laviano

1996     Lawrence N. Deering

1996     John W. Everitt

1991     David D. McChesney

1987     Ralph B. Maust

1984     Alastair Anderson

1978     Nancy Tibbs Ljungqvist

1975     Marie Louise McChesney

1972     Lispenard Suydam

1970     Malcolm J. Fleming

1969     Joseph M. Hendrie

1968     Harvey McChesney, Jr.

1967     Peter Paige

1965     Robert B. Lea

1964     H. Hastings Redall

1962     Theodore T. Everitt

1961     Dr. Merrill Foote

1960     Charles R. Dominy

Bill Earle, son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Earle, was regarded as a fine junior sailor and generous competitor in the CC Class. After Bill died in an automobile accident while returning to Princeton as a student in 1935, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Underhill and many of Bill’s friends donated a commemorative bronze plaque to the yacht club for Bellport Bay Yacht Club Junior Champions and their crew names to be engraved each year, retroactively to 1929. Subsequently the BBYC Midget Champions names were added to the plaque. These fine young sailors advanced to represent the yacht club at the GSBYRA Junior or Midget Championships.

The Underhill Cup is awarded each season to the outstanding midget skipper, who represents BBYC with the best record at either the single-handed GSBYRA Orr Championship or the crewed GSBYRA Picken Midget Championship.

As a tribute to her mother Emily Rich Underhill, Nancy Underhill Meade, donated a trophy won by Emily Rich Underhill in with the request that it become a perpetual trophy dedicated to honor a female sailor for her love of sailing, her dedication and enthusiasm promoting the continuance of tradition, sailing and racing at the club, and for honorably representing Bellport Bay Yacht Club as a skipper or crew. In 2007 the Officers and Trustees of the club accepted the trophy, engaged Charlie Flagg to build a base for plates, and decided to honor Nancy as its first recipient as the image of the enthusiastic and elderly Nancy Meade clambering atop the club roof to watch a huge Optimist event remained indelible in the minds of the officers and trustees. For the first time in her long life, Nancy was speechless as she accepted the award!

2021    Christine Ettorre

2013     Irene Baumfalk

2010     Ginny Everitt

2009     Lenny Baer Pearson

2008     MaryAnn S. Deering

2007     Nancy Underhill Meade

The John W. Everitt Award is presented to honor an outstanding member of the Bellport Bay Yacht Club for their enduring support of our mission.

2022     Dan O'Connor

2013     Karen Blumenthal

2007     Larry Deering

2007     Charlie Flagg

2006     Debi Motl

The Village of Bellport Bowl is awarded each season to the outstanding junior skipper, who represents BBYC with the best record at one of the GSBYRA Junior Gulden, Patin, or Shinnecock Championships.

2022     Izadora Meares; Guilo Basilico

2021     Bridget Sisk; Cia Pilcher

2020     Bridget Sisk; Laura Slovensky

2019     Ben Metcalfe; Laura Slovensky

2018     Owen Himsworth; Clayton Canella

2017     Laura Slovinsky; Charlie Hertz

2016     Hannah Pokorny; Isabella Holker

2015     Hannah Pokorny; Isabella Holker

2014     Hannah Pokorny

2013     Liza O’Connor

2012     Sarah Hermus

2011     Patrick Clark

2010     Sarah Hermus & Aiden Lundstrom

2009     Andrea Leelike

2008     Paige Conlin

2007     Devin Laviano

2006     Devin Laviano

2005     Devin Laviano

2004     Thomas Conlin

2003     Dylan Roden

2002     Zachery Motl

2001     Eric J. Everitt

2000     Eric J. Everitt

1999     John W. D. Everitt

1998     John W. D. Everitt

1997     Jason Koch

1996     Jason Koch

1995     John W. D. Everitt

1994     Shannon Schoppman

1993     Not awarded

1992     Not awarded

1991     Not awarded

1990     Not awarded

1989     Not awarded

1988     Not awarded

1987     Scott M. Cullen

1986     Scott M. Cullen

1985     Christian Cutter

1984     Christian Cutter

1983     Not engraved

1982     Dallas W. Newsom

1981     Dejan Radeka

1980     Dejan Radeka

1979     Peter E. Maust

1778     Dan Rohde

1977     Dan Rohde

1976     Dan Rohde

1975     Not awarded

1974     W. Tyson Dominy, Jr.

1973     Trissie Holland

1972     Peter Fleming

1971     Louise Goldstein

1970     Alan Palevsky

1969     Susan Hendrie

1968     Haruo Shirane

1967     Todd M. Kana

1966     Peter A. Quandt

1965     Robert B. Bedell

1964     Stephen W. Bedell

1963     Dean B. Ince

1962     Bryce C. Suydam

1961      John H. R. Ince, Jr.

1960     Stephen Bedell

1959     Nicholas Palevsky

1958     Richard C. Heidelberger

1957     Ralph B. Maust, Jr.

1956     Richard C. Heidelberger

Among the oldest and most beautiful trophies owned and awarded by the club is the Adams Bowl, a hand-hammered Gorham silver bowl, donated by John Reed Adam. The Adams Bowl is awarded yearly to the skipper with the best record in the class with the largest fleet in club races. It is engraved with the name of the boat, the name of the winner, and the class of the boat.