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Growing up at FWYC . . .
P
hil Pritchett has been around the Fort Walton Yacht Club for over 40 years. Phil, his
parents, Bill and Millie, and four brothers moved to Fort Walton Beach in 1973. Bill
and Millie had joined the club around 1970, while they were living in Mobile. They loved
the bay and the yacht club here. Bill bought a Choi Lee sailboat and kept it at the club prior to
moving here. The Pritchett family moved to Georgia after Brookley Field in Mobile closed, but
upon retirement, Bill brought his family to Fort Walton Beach. Phil remembers coming to the
club as a junior in high school and being welcomed by Larry Tate, Ed Horton, Jim Fatheree,
Marge Brinckmann and many others. The Pritchett family had found their home at FWYC.
After a few years as members, Bill and Millie became the most friendly, welcoming people at the
club. Perhaps they remembered