Welcome to the Stonington Harbor Yacht Club! Founded in 2002, the Clubhouse is located in historic Stonington Borough at the entrance to Stonington Harbor. We are a year-round club offering a wide variety of both water and land-based activities as well as extensive event facilities. We invite you to learn more about us by exploring our website.
Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club
Judge Howard Dodd served as the Club’s first Commodore and his brother, Dr. Raymond Dodd its first Race Chairman. But then, as now, there were Vice Commodores and Rear Commodores and Secretaries and Treasurers and Membership Committees working in support of the program. Clearly it is impossible to identify the smallest fraction of their number. Equally clear is the fact that it doesn’t really matter; the service was rendered for the betterment of the Club and the emerging community of […]
The Darien Boat Club is located at 135 Pear Tree Point Road in Darien, Connecticut. The Boat Club offers a well protected anchorage for the membership’s boats in a picturesque residential setting. The Long Island Sound is easily and quickly accessed by the short harbor in which it is situated between the many harbors of Stamford and Norwalk. The Darien Boat Club is ideally located for day trips to the Norwalk Islands, Five Mile River, Norwalk Harbor, Stamford Harbor, and […]
With the recent opening of navigation up the East River from New York City, Long Island Sound was just beginning to see yachting activity. Local yachtsmen sought to establish a local venue from which to test their sailing skills against each other and all challengers. This spirit of competition, on which CPYC was founded, remains its focus today. The club took its name from the point of land on the eastern shore of the entrance to the Saugatuck River from […]
When our founders met on the porch of the Branford Point Hotel, their discussions often focused on plans to organize a club that would encourage the art of navigation, the advancement of aquatic sports, and gather together yachtsmen into a common interest association. Herbert Smith of East Haven, Homer H. Sheppard of New Haven, and Norman Gillette of Short Beach incorporated the Branford Yacht Club on June 24, 1909. Herbert Smith became the first Commodore (1909-1910). When the Branford Point […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Looking through the club roster, there aren’t many old timers left, and several people have asked me about how the club started and we got the club house, so perhaps now would be a good time to put it on paper. The marina is built on the site of an old land fill. The land fill operations were completed in 1974. Subsequently, Kohl, a developer went to the city of Brisbane and offered to develop the site in exchange for […]
SYC is located in downtown Long Beach California, Shoreline Yacht Club is a California Yacht Club in the center of Southern California’s most active boating venue. From our clubhouse within the newly reconstructed marina, members actively host a busy Cruising and Racing schedule, a burgeoning Junior Sailing program, Angling and Diving events, and other on the water activities. We are involved in the community as well, preparing a pancake breakfast for 600 to 700 of the marina community and public […]
Welcome to the SeaGate Yacht Club, where we have been enjoying friendship, socializing and boating since 1976. The club has come a long way since our founding on an October weekend in Avalon thirty-nine years ago. We have some of the greatest people working together and having lots of fun along the way. I am honored and proud to be the Commodore for 2016 and hope to continue the tradition set by my predecessors that has made our club a […]
How did we get where we are today? Back in the late thirties, Dr. Jack E. Taylor and Dr. Glenn E. Thorpe, sailing friends, met on a regular basis for lunch at a restaurant overlooking Santa Monica Bay. As with all yachting types, the conversations during these lunches invariably turned to the subject of boats and boating. Before long, these men who jokingly called themselves the “End of the World Yacht Club”, were joined by Boyd “Bud” Verplank and Stratford […]
Hans Schneider is still reflecting “…some enthusiastic members approached the City of San Leandro to lease some land and build a clubhouse. The members loaned the club money, interest free, and the work of building the clubhouse was done by volunteers. When you came into the clubhouse in those days the floor was concrete painted red. The bar was from plywood, tables were cable wheels covered with plywood, the chairs were from Goodwill, and everybody was happy to have a […]
The San Diego Association of Yacht Clubs was founded for the purpose of fostering and encouraging participation in yachting and to promote its public interest in the San Diego area. The association’s officers and directors are chosen from the ranks of past commodores of its member clubs. The Association is a forum from which its members can exchange ideas, coordinate activities and foster fellowship in the boating community. We take an active roll in the community by providing input to […]
Sacramento Bayliner Club