Sprite Island Yacht Club is a small private club on one of the most picturesque islands on Long Island Sound. It is just off the Westport Norwalk shore. Sprite offers an abundance of beautiful natural facilities and the relaxed and congenial companionship of many good friends. The seven-acre island is one of the highest points on the Connecticut shoreline. The island was formerly a private estate and still contains several small buildings. It has lovely lawns, flowering bushes, beautiful trees, […]
The Rex Boating Club (RBC) is a membership-only boating club providing the latest Sea Hunt, Formula, Sea Ray, and other top quality boats for its members’ use so they can experience quality, safe, family fun while creating a lifetime of memories on Long Island Sound. At a fraction of the cost and without the obligations of ownership, the RBC adds unprecedented value to the pleasures of boating. The club is managed by Rex Boating Club LLC, a Norwalk Connecticut family […]
Ischoda Yacht Club, one of the oldest clubs on Long Island Sound, was founded in 1886 as the Hallika-Wallika Club by a group of boatmen, mostly fishermen, as there was very little pleasure boating at that time. In 1901, while Norwalk celebrated its 250th birthday, it’s name was changed to the Ischoda Yacht Club, a name from the Mohawk Indian Tribe which meant “A campfire around which the peace pipe was passed”, and indicating the peaceful relations the white settlers […]
The formation of a Wooden Hull Owners Association was the brainchild of Clark Sweet in 1972. Clark, like many who owned wooden hull sailboats then, felt to be at a disadvantage in his favorite races. The 60’s and 70’s saw an explosion in the manufacturing of affordable fiberglass boats, and this made equitable regatta handicapping of wooden and fiberglass vessels most difficult. Clark contacted Ray Wallace and discussed the formation of an organization dedicated to traditional wood sailboats with equal […]
The Vallejo Yacht Club has an comprehensive sailing program including, an active racing calendar, monthly cruise outs, and off shore coastal ventures. The club also offers sailing classess and courses for all levels of expertise. Membership in the Vallejo Yacht Club is open to anyone interested in boating and related activities. Ownership of a boat is not required.
In 1924, there were no yacht clubs on the San Diego side of the bay, the San Diego Yacht Club having moved to Coronado. Mud flats extended from the embarcadero all along the shore. A year later, Dr. Ernest Percy Chartres-Martin and Stanley Hobson, disgusted with the lack of facilities for yachtsmen in San Diego, decided to organize a club and build a pier for yachtsman only, because commercial fishermen had priority for the best locations on the piers already […]
One of the oldest yacht clubs in the area, the South Bay Yacht Club (S.B.Y.C.) was founded in 1888 as the South Bay Yachting Association by a group of 35 influential businessmen with a love of sailing. The Club was incorporated as the South Bay Yacht Club in 1896 and the clubhouse was built in 1903. The club and its facilities are historic and located in a Historic District of Alviso. The clubhouse was moved up to it’s current location […]
The Singlehanded Sailing Society was conceived to provide a forum where sailors and others interested in the sport of singlehanded sailing could share their ideas and experiences. It is the intent of the SSS to make it possible for such sailors to compete in seaworthy sailing vessels of various types and designs on a fair and equitable basis. The purpose of the races is to provide an organized arena in which ideas, equipment, designs, and vessels specifically created, built, modified, […]
The Sausalito Cruising Club was founded in 1949 as a boating and social club. The club facility is a refurbished WWII ammunition barge that was acquired in 1955. It is docked at Dunphy Park within walking distance of beautiful downtown Sausalito. It has a CF number making it a true vessel. The concrete bottom was installed in 1984 by sinking it into Richardson Bay channel and then floating the ammunition barge onto it. Once combined, the structure was then refloated […]
The seven founding members1 of the Sausalito Yacht Club were already junior members of other yacht clubs, but with teenage hubris thought they could do better themselves. The founders conceived and established the new club on New Year’s Eve of 1942. The time was right. World War II had called many of the older, local boat owners to Europe or the Pacific. Before heading off to war, they trusted their boats to the care of the club’s young founders, the […]
The Presidio Yacht Club has a rich and distinguished history in the San Francisco Bay area. The Club’s origins belong with the establishment of Fort Baker by the US Army in 1850. Originally named the Lime Point Military Reservation (after Lime Point on the north side of the Golden Gate), the Fort operated as a satellite station of Presidio of San Francisco. Its primary missions were mine laying and hosting strategic battery sites – one of which is still accessible […]
Known as “The Jewel of Northern California”, the Petaluma Yacht Club sits on the historic Petaluma turning basin. When docked at the city owned docs, you are within walking distance of some of the best restaurants in Northern California. Also close by are cinemas, antique shops, art galleries and our famous Petaluma Museum. Our all-volunteer yacht club is well known for superb hospitality! We built our club house, we tend bar and have fun along with our guests. The Petaluma […]
In January 1913, a handful of sailors met at Peterson’s Boat House at the foot of 12th Street in Oakland. They formed Oakland Yacht Club which was incorporated in December of that year. Early history of Bay Area yacht clubs suggests that there were two yacht clubs named “Oakland.” It is thought that our Club has its roots in several former clubs including The Panama YC. Judge H.W. Pulcifer was elected the first Commodore, and the first meetings of the […]
The history of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, established in 1916, is intertwined with the development of the city of Newport Beach and its world-renowned yachting and recreational harbor. Since 1919, the Club’s permanent home has been at its present location at 720 W. Bay Avenue. The picturesque clubhouse has been remodeled and enlarged, but never replaced. Dr. Albert Soiland, the Norwegian-born founder and first commodore of the Club, was a man with an inborn love of sailing and the […]
A special address for the MPYC.org Calendar can be specified by another tool (Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, Apple, etc.) and that external tool can request updates. Once the tool is updated, you can use your smartphone or other device to check that tool’s calendar. For example, I can view Google Calendars on my phone so I create an additional Google Calendar in my account, specify the MPYC.org Calendar ical url and then synch my phone with my Google calendar and […]
The companionship and shared Corinthian Spirit that can be had with good friends in a relaxed setting away from the office or workplace, enables our members to enjoy the sea and sun with fun and pleasure. The Marina Venice Yacht Club is a non-profit organization of people who just like the Pirates of the Caribbean, like to hit the Islands for a great time. For information on how to join or what events we have upcoming, please call (310) 822-9082 […]
The following historical sketch of the Los Angeles Yacht Club is intended to augment the wealth of information that is presented elsewhere in this book, as well as the facts and illustrations in the archives and the records of deeds engraved upon the multitude of hard won trophies. It is not intended to individually credit the great sailors, their fine ships or the selfless dedicated men who do not appear on the record, but who sailed for, or worked with, […]
Island Yacht Club was founded in 1970 by a group of sailboat racers who wanted to offer the best possible value in a yacht club. Located in the Alameda Marina on the sunny and calm Oakland / Alameda Estuary, IYC is ideally located for a quick day sail or a warm downwind sail home after a day’s thrashing on San Francisco Bay. IYC is an all volunteer non-profit Yacht Club open to any and all interested in sail or power. […]
his year marks the 180th Australia Day Regatta, making this the oldest continuously-conducted annual sailing regatta in the world. Why not be a part of it! Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club is hosting the 2016 Sabot Australia Day Regatta on Saturday 23rd January 2015, in conjunction with the Southern NSW Sabot Sailing Association and under the authority of the Australia Day Regatta Management Committee. It promises to be a great event, with 1-up, 2-up and Green fleet sailors invited to attend. […]
In 1939, local sailors Togo Middows and George Griffin, were the prime movers in the formation of the Middle Harbour Cruising Yacht Association. Early that year, Togo invited a small group, including Griffin, to his home in Mosman, where the formation of a club was proposed. The first official meeting was held in the Griffin Brothers’ Boatshed at the Spit. Mr Dick Down, a life member and past Commodore of the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, was invited to be President […]