From the March 18, 1983 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

Robert Sanborn and Stuart Bangs are two members of the Barnacle Club, a club that has held a prestigious place in Vineyard history for 115 years. Into its ranks have come whalers and pilots, fishermen and master mariners, and a host of Vineyard characters who have lived and made their livelihood by the sea. Their love of the open ocean and their everlasting hankering to tell a tale and share a joke brought them together at the Barnacle Club.