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 […]

Welcome to South Bay Sailing’s website. We are a full service ASA accredited sailing school and charter company. Whether it is lessons or cruising you are looking for, our sleek fleet of racing boats are responsive to drive and fun to ride. Please scroll down to see our news feed for more details about what’s currently happening at the dock. Also check out our monthly newsletter linked at the bottom of the page. That’s where we offer deals and specials. […]

Located on the east side of the Suisun City Marina, the Solano Yacht Club was founded in 1954 and has a rich boating history on the Suisun Slough. The club has an active cruising fleet and welcomes the cruising members of other clubs. Full facilities are available at the club and there is fuel and a pump out station nearby. The club also has a great lounge and dining room that can be rented for events. For information about facility rental contact the Social Director […]

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, […]

In 1951, the Silver Gate Yacht Club began as just a dream in the hearts of a handful of San Diego Boat owners, but it soon evolved into a commitment to make this dream a reality. The first step was the completion of by-laws that were needed to receive a state charter. These by-laws came together during an overnight camp out on the bare sands of Shelter Island and were finished at dawn. An event celebrated at our Silver Fizz […]

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 […]