Great South Bay Power Squadron is a company, located at East Moriches, New York, United States. Visit their website www.gsbps.org, Facebook, or LinkedIn profile for more detailed information.

The Great South Bay Power Squadron received its charter and was formed on May16th, 1941. Prior to this time, Great South Bay was a Division of South Shore PowerSquadron.Great South Bay's first meeting was held at Cooper's Hotel in Bay Shore and G.Rowe Whitcomb, JN, was sworn in as Commander. The membership numberedforty four.Great South Bay's area included members from Amityville to Patchogue, spannedfour townships and covered over twenty-five miles of Great South Bay shoreline.In 1951, Great South Bay formed two new Squadrons to share in the responsibilityof educating the public in safe boating practices; hence Captree Power Squadron tothe West and Patchogue Bay Power Squadron to the East were born.Great South Bay's burgee was the first to be authorized to a USPS Squadron by theUSPS National Governing Board. Great South Bay's newsletter, the Great SouthSpray, has consistently been a first class award winning monthly publication.Three of Great South Bay's past Commanders have had the honor to serve asDistrict Commanders of USPS District 3, and two as a past District 3 EducationalOfficer.Social reforms of the 1960's and 1970's brought dramatic changes in membershippolicy; in 1983 the Great South Bay admitted its first women members.Great South Bay's members' affection for boating and organized cruises andrendezvous had earned it the "boating squadron" reputation that is enviedthroughout District 3.In May 2016, Great South Bay will celebrate seventy-five years of public service,self education and fraternal boating. Great South Bay is proud of its history, itsachievements, its reputation and its tradition, and is dedicated to promoting safeboating on the Great South Bay.At the start of 2013, the GSBPS consisted of 205 members.

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