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At a special club meeting on January 8, 1910, Frank F. Collyer was elected commodore, C. Merritt, vice commodore, Ivan Flood, secretary, and William Merritt, treasurer. The balance from the previous year was $527.93. Then, at the February 1, 1910 meeting it was moved to build a new clubhouse at a cost not to exceed $1200. Commodore Collyer reported at the April 30 meeting that a contract had been let for the construction of the clubhouse for $1100. At that point, the club had $642.62 in hand so financing the construction was no problem. The club property was mortgaged to Charles Merritt for $600. At the same meeting, the club changed the name of the Carthage Ice Yacht Club to the Chelsea Yacht Club of Chelsea on the Hudson. The court order permitting this change, turned up by Joel Hanig in 1999, was signed by Judge Joseph Morschauser on 28 May 1910. A triangular flag with white CYC letters on a blue field edged on two sides by a wide red band was adopted as the official burgee.
On July 4, 1910, the flag was raised over the newly constructed clubhouse. Its appearance was quite different from today's building. There was only a two-story building with a porch on both the first and second floors. The building was also much closer to the water than it is today. A photograph shows the building and the boat house. (93F14)
On June 29, 1912, F.W. Pollock was elected commodore. As he was a lawyer, he was very useful in negotiating with the New York Central Railroad. In September the railroad took some club land to widen its tracks and, in return, agreed to obtain a water-grant from the state of waters to the west, to fill in the grant, and to build a rip-rap wall along the bank. This was done, resulting in the lawn which is now in front of the clubhouse. It is said that the large stones in the rip-rap wall come from a New York City subway. Again a photograph shows the building and the boat house, which has been turned by ninety degrees. (93F15)
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