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.

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 […]

Ponus Yacht Club was founded in 1911 and has been a staple on the western branch of the Stamford harbor for over 100 years. The club has matured over the years but the basic premise is the same. Ponus is a place for hard working middle class men, women and their families to socialize and share their enthusiasm for boating, fishing, and the current events of the day. The club boasts a waterfront deck for lunch or an afternoon cocktail […]

Noroton Yacht Club, founded in 1928, is dedicated to promoting family participation in sailboat racing and recreational sailing. The Club is located in the Darien Harbor, just West of Long Neck Point, with easy access to Long Island Sound. The Club has a rich heritage of one-design racing. Noroton’s members are currently sailing J-24’s, Sonars, Ensigns, and 2.4mR’s. In addition the Club has a fleet of over 50 Cruising boats. Our boats participate in Club races as well as other […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Activities started again in 1946, the first regatta in 1947 was held at the Naval Reserve Armory. Club meetings were held in various member’s houses. During February 1949 a suite was leased in the California Hotel. In January 1950 negotiations were opened with the City for a portion of beach for a clubhouse location. In July 1950 there was a “Bill of Sale” from the Union Oil Company for an old office building to be used for a clubhouse. The […]

RBYC originally began as Palos Verdes Yacht Club in 1961 by a group of Sabot sailors who lived on the Palos Verdes peninsula and launched their small 8-ft. boats over the rocks in Malaga cove. The club met in homes and school auditoriums for many years, and was considered a “paper club”. With the construction of King Harbor in Redondo Beach in the 60’s and the ownership of boats of all sizes, the membership of the club took on a […]

OCSC Sailing began in 1979, with one boat, a shed, and a simple idea: share the joy of sailing and take care of our clients the way we’d want our friends and family to be treated. Three decades later, we’re still doing the same thing. Our community has grown, but we still know our customers, and they are still our friends. OCSC picture of Anthony Sandberg Our Mission We teach sailing to enhance people’s inextricable link to the ocean, to […]

MWYC) is a California Non-Profit Corporation formed in 1979. MWYC fosters an interest in all aspects of boating, promotes boating safety and education and assists its members in contributing to their enjoyment of water related recreation. MWYC is a friendly group who enjoy boating and socializing while developing lifetime friendships with those who share similar interests. “The idea is to have fun while being a responsible boater.”* MWYC is active in the local boating community, Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association of […]

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, […]

Established in 1929 for the purposes of planning a powerboat race between Long Beach and San Francisco. The proposed race would be run during the San Francisco Motor Boat Show to provide advertising for the show and Northern California boating industries. The Associated Boating Industries of Northern California wrote Daniel M. Callis, Sr., a Long Beach architect active in boating and local yacht clubs requesting a Long Beach area club act as the Southern California host of the race. His […]

The club membership, I am told, is for the sole purpose of one thing: the pursuit of furthering the hobby and past time of sailing and encouraging all of the family to participate, including the “little ones.” I have also been told that those folks seeking new membership who do not sail … are not invited to join. Sailing IS very important here. All events at the club are planned or in concert with different sailing events, races, regattas, meets […]

We would like to welcome you to the King Harbor Yacht Club Web Site. Our Club is located in beautiful King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California. The view from the club is spectacular looking right out on the Pacific Ocean on one side and down the channels of the harbor on the other. We love King Harbor because it is big enough to have 1,458 slips, but you can be on the ocean in five minutes from any place in the […]