Nearly 10 years of painstaking research, writing and editing has come to fruition with the recent release of Sails in the Sun: The Story of Spray Beach and Spray Beach Yacht Club.

Published by Echoes of LBI, the 288-page coffee table-size volume is a precursor to the club’s 100th anniversary celebration next August. It is packed with photographs and a running narrative of how the yacht club grew decade by decade as well as biographical sketches of prominent members.