36 Old Lupton Road Whortonsville, NC 28556
OUR HISTORY
The WYTC was founded in 1990 in the village of Whortonsville (pop. 103) on the idyllic "inner banks" of coastal North Carolina.
The Club was intended from the outset to be as inclusive as possible: most members of the community owned tractors, but not everyone owned a sailboat.
For 20 years, from 1990 until 2009, the WYTC hosted an event called the Summer Solstice Sail-ebration. While the festivities involved a sailboat race (more of a group cruise around an established course, really), no one was excluded for lack of a sailboat. Prizes included loaves of home-baked bread for the winners and overgrown zucchinis for the losers. The WYTC no longer hosts the event, but its Solstice Day regatta continues in the town of Oriental, known as the Sailing Capital of North Carolina.
Nick Santoro – co-founder of the WYTC with Jeannette Santoro, his wife – has written a work of historical fiction inspired by his move from the New York metro area to discover a new community and way of life in rural North Carolina.
THE NOVEL
"The Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club" (the novel) is an account of one man’s attempt to escape the harried, impersonal life of a New York commuter in hopes of finding a more fulfilling life-style in a tiny North Carolina coastal village.
It is the story of Walter Smithwick, a man with no particular talents or skills, who survives a subway fire under the Hudson River on his way to a job he did not like, to realize that there must be a better way for him to spend the rest of his life. With no clear idea of what that better way might be, he decides to invent one.
The people he meets and the experiences he encounters along the way are sure to put a smile on your face. And there just might be a life lessen in there for all of us.
While the Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is a work of fiction, it really did exist...or should I say “does”?
By: Nick Santoro
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35°05’44.9”N,
76°37’59.3”W