Yacht club fights for its future with village of Johnsburg

Yacht club fights for its future with village of Johnsburg

As he put his wooden sailboat into the water, Brian Fry stopped to shake his head at a fight over boat storage at the Pistakee Yacht Club. “It makes zero sense to me,” he said. “We’re 128 years old, and now the village says we can’t keep boats here? We’re a yacht club — are you kidding me?” Then Fry’s sail caught a breeze, and the boat he built by hand eased through the ripples on Pistakee Lake. Two 12-year-old boys went out in another small boa…