Thanks to all who attended the annual Meeting and Holiday Party. Special thanks to Tim Brown and the entire staff at Haley Mansion and thank you to our raffle and auction donors for their generosity. Congratulations to Frank Murphy for a most-deserved Commodore’s Award. Thank you to outgoing d...
The Minuteman Yacht Club is organized to promote the pleasures of boating on Long Island Sound. The Club also represent the interests of the Westport, Connecticut boating community, particularly with respect to matters affecting safety and Westport boating facilities. During boating season, the Club...
Milford Yacht Club maintains the charm of an old fashioned boating club while providing modern amenities such as a full service restaurant, swimming pool and marina. Members and their guests enjoy coming in from a day of yachting, then cooling off in the pool before relaxing on the deck with drinks ...
The Mattabesett Canoe Club was organized January 7, 1896 by a group of canoe enthusiasts and what became of that is now The Middlesex Yacht Club. The first location was on land owned by the Davis family at the foot of College Street on the Connecticut River in Middletown. A clubhouse was built there...
As boaters we all know that one of the most important things that we boaters need whether at anchor, on the dock, or out for a day of fun on the water is a good cooler. Therefore we are going to raffle off a Pelican 95 cooler for the Ladies Auxiliary opening day raffle. You will be able to purchase ...
Masons Island Yacht Club’s property and facilities are for the exclusive use of its members and invited guests. The Club is open every day from sunrise to sunset from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and at other times for special occasions. All children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult at a...
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 Isch...
Indian Harbor Yacht Club was founded in 1889 by dedicated sailors intent on being part of the thriving sailing community on Long Island Sound. The club’s mission was ‘to encourage and foster the sport of yachting, the art of yacht design and construction and the science of seamanship and...
The Housatonic Boat club is in its 128th season – the oldest active yacht club in the state! In January of 1887 seven prominent Stratford men met to form a club for, as our charter reads “ …social intercourse, and to promote and encourage an interest in yachting.” By April of that year its t...
The first meeting of HCYC, of which there is any record, was called an organizational meeting and was held at the Lake Breeze Tavern in Old Lyme on October 19, 1946. The Lake Breeze Tavern was located in Haines Park on Rogers Lake and subsequently burned to the ground. Apparently, a lot of effort we...
Welcome to the on-line home of the Halloween Yacht Club located in Stamford, CT. We are a group of boating enthusiasts who operate a non-profit facility in Westcott Cove. We have been a fixture on the Stamford shore line for 86 years and we currently number more than 300 members and their families. ...
The Guilford Yacht Club, nestled among vast, virgin salt marshes on the bank of the West River in Guilford Connecticut, is Long Island Sound’s premiere yachting facility. To appreciate it fully you must experience it all – spacious floating docks, luxurious swimming pool, showers, Har-Tru tennis...
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 impossibl...
GWC offers families and individuals a private, waterfront retreat with year-round social activities. It’s a place where serious fitness and water sport devotees, as well as recreation seekers, can enjoy their time and improve their well-being. With sweeping views of the Mianus River, the prope...
Starting the first weekend in October, you may have noticed increased activity around the Club on Sundays. This is due to the Connecticut River Frostbite Squadron at Essex, better known as FBYC (Frostbite Yacht Club) fall series. As we have many new Members in the Club who may not understand why the...
The place, Black Rock, a historic seaside area of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The time, June 1919. World War I had ended only seven months before. A group of sea loving buddies had been meeting next to the rock pile at the foot of Seabright Avenue when they decided it was high time to found a yacht clu...
The genesis of the Essex Yacht Club can be found in the Inaugural Eastern Frostbite Dinghy Regatta held on March 4 and 5, 1933 with racing off the old Steamboat Dock. Frostbiting had begun a year earlier on Manhasset Bay, Long Island, giving dinghy sailing a tremendous boost. When a neutral meeting ...
We are located on the waterfront in Essex, Connecticut, overlooking the beautiful Connecticut River. Our clubhouse is only six miles up river from the Old Saybrook Light on Long Island Sound, and a short cruise to beautiful Hamburg Cove. ECYC sponsors a variety of fun social events and activities th...
ECSA is now a member of the US Sailing MVP program. In a nutshell, you can save • $10 for individual • $5 for youth • $15 for family on your US Sailing membership if you sign up through this program. Regardless if you are current or prospective member of US Sailing, we encourage you to take ad...
A small group of men met in a temporary building on Carroll Avenu9_eeyc-club-south-yarde for the purpose of organizing a new yacht club. Their objective was to provide a suitable clubhouse, grounds and anchorage for the convenience of its members. In order to further encourage boating in all its for...