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 […]
Are you looking for an exhilarating day on the open sea, carefree cruising, an exciting vacation experience, comfort, and a well maintained yacht? Do you appreciate personalized service, provided by a warm, friendly and helpful staff? Windward Sailing has been offering this and more to its members for 40 years in beautiful Newport Beach. When you sail with Windward you benefit from a wide variety of vessels ranging in size from 28′ to 44′. You sail our vessels without the […]
The club is owned and run by its Members, membership is currently set at 230. Membership is open to the general public. Most Members live in the surrounding communities of Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills and Calabasas. WYC is both a sailing club and a social club, you are not required to live on the lake or own a boat to become a member. The Clubhouse is located at the Landing on the Lake in Westlake Village. WYC promotes, […]
Founder, President of Voyager Yacht Club is the founder of Voyager Yacht Club. He has heired his family business and possesses 18 years of experience on yachting servicing. Joe has setup the company in 2006 became an entrepreneur. He serves on company’s operations and execution team to ensure flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace and has developed a framwork of the company structure. Joe has a mission to create utmost memorable joyful moment with the best services for […]
Club History A group of 35 folks gathered together at Village West Marina in October 1987, to form the Village West Yacht Club. Remember our Past Commodores A modular unit was found and placed on the property, the “point”, and became our clubhouse. We have done a lot of work on the building and property for the enjoyment of our membership and fellow boaters. There is a full service bar, pool table and excellent cuisine served for our events and […]
The Venture Yacht Club of San Diego is a friendly, family oriented club catering to all trailer sailors ~ new or experienced. There is something for every member of the family. We have approximately 65% participation at our meetings and 90% of the members are active in one way or another. We hold races regularly and race as a fleet with other clubs. The club plans at least one social or cruising event each month. (See Current Calendar). We have […]
The Ventura Yacht Club, originally known as the Ventura County Boat Club, was organized in 1938. In 1988 we celebrated our 50th anniversary. Ventura Yacht Club is one of the few clubs on the coast which owns its own clubhouse and slips. The club has a proud history of having started as a do-it-yourself type organization. The club’s official newsletter is the Forecast, which has been published monthly since 1940, one of the oldest continuous publications in yachting. Ventura Yacht […]
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.
The University of Southern California Varsity Sailing Team represents an integration of intense competition, extreme focus, diversification, and lots of fun. The rigors of sailing on the team rival those of the classroom. Team members must balance work with play (college sailing and college are both), while maintaining the academic excellence that was exhibited to be admitted to USC. Practices are strenuous, goals are challenging, expectations are high and an individuals roles on the team can be many. Skills of […]
Once envisioned solely as a training site to help sailors fulfill their Olympic dreams, the United States Sailing Center at Long Beach has developed into a true center of training for sailors of every ability and from all parts of our community. From developmental clinics and hosting of world-class regattas to coaching a number of area high schools and the USC collegiate sailing team, the Sailing Center offers sailors the skills necessary for success in the sport. Still, the Sailing […]
The UCLA Sailing Team is a small group of active, dedicated, and fun-loving students. We sail competitively with colleges and universities throughout California and the nation. Our district is the Pacific Coast (PCIYRA) which includes all of California and Hawaii, so most of our regattas are throughout the California coast– we travel on weekends, usually 1-2 times a month. We began competing again several years ago after a brief hiatus. The team has shown considerable improvement over each of […]
The Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Season was the 45th Anniversary of the formation of the UCI Sailing Team. In those 45 years the team has garnered 7 National Championships, 50 All American honors, 5 ICSA Dinghy National low point winners and numerous Conference Championships. However a lot has changed in 25 years. The team has gone from a full fledged varsity program with a full time coach and athletic department perks to a viable student run racing program. Less than three […]
In the beginning it was the San Leandro Sailing Club. A group of students were taking a class in piloting given by the Peralto Power Squadron at San Leandro High School In 1967. A discussion was held on the possibility of forming a family orientated sailing club. An ad was placed in the newspaper inviting anyone interested in forming such a club to meet at the San Leandro Library on January 13, 1967. Eighty five people attended the meeting and […]
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 […]
South Shore Yacht Club
The South Lake Tahoe Yacht Club is an organization of people banded together for the purpose of mutual interest in the field of boating, education, and general involvement in boating. We hereby lend our services to assist the public and others concerned in the field of boating, for the safety and welfare of boating in general. Chartered in 1961 as the “Boat Club”, the name was changed to “South Lake Tahoe Yacht Club” in 1978 Members enjoy summer boating activities […]
CCYC is the longest-lived yacht club in Santa Monica Bay and among the oldest on the Pacific Coast, tracing its incorporation to the depression year of 1932 on March 31, 1932. South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club has gone through many changes from its earlier foundations, retaining the spirit of yachting and having a good time. Today, we are a cross-section of the yachting community, incorporating a variety of craft from single man rowing shells and sabots to ocean racers competing […]
South Beach Yacht Club (SBYC) is an all-volunteer club located in San Francisco’s exciting South Beach neighborhood. With 500 members, we are the second-largest club in San Francisco after the St. Francis Yacht Club. We’re known for our active racing program that draws over 50 boats during the summer, a growing junior sailing program now spanning five weeks, and a relaxed atmosphere in our airy, member-designed clubhouse on the second floor of the South Beach Harbor building. South Beach is […]
Until Marina del Rey and King Harbor were completed in the early 1960‘s there was little moorage available for sailboatsso there was little racing. Back then the Santa Monica Yacht Harbor was behind the now demolished breakwater off the Santa Monica Pier. South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club was represented there as was one of the original ‘Snipe’ one-design fleets (they launched from their trailers on the pier with the hoist used to off load commercial fishing boats.) When the two […]
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 […]