Sausalito Yacht Club

Sausalito Yacht Club
	Burgee
Founded	December 31, 1942
Based in	Sausalito, California
Website	www.sausalitoyachtclub.org

The Sausalito Yacht Club (SYC) in the city of

Sausalito, California on San Francisco Bay was founded in 1942 to promote yachting, both racing and cruising

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History

The seven founding members

Pacific

. Before heading off to war, they trusted their boats to the care of the new club, whose oldest member was three months short of his seventeenth birthday.

The club had several names in the first few days until Sausalito Yacht Club became the obvious choice. A mood of teenage rebellion was reflected in a provision of the first

bylaws

: no one could join the club who was older than the oldest founding member. Later, the maximum age limit was raised, although it was not abandoned until 1953.

Originally the club meetings were held in members' homes, but they soon adopted the Officer's

Northwestern Pacific passenger train railhead for the Sausalito to San Francisco ferry, which had been abandoned after the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937. The club called on the talents and labor of members to design and build the clubhouse. Club members, along with a pile driver and operator supplied by Madden and Lewis, drove all of the piles for the clubhouse over the weekend of December 6–7, 1958. Member Ted Boutmy designed the clubhouse and a contractor was hired to build it. The clubhouse was completed and dedicated on September 24, 1960.^[2]

Membership

Most of the members of the Sausalito Yacht Club are from Sausalito or neighboring areas in

East Bay, but the club has a sizable number of members from elsewhere in the United States as well as foreign countries. Club bylaws require that a major percentage of the members of the club own a boat.^[3] SYC is a member club of the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association

(PICYA). SYC offers reciprocal club privileges to visiting members of many recognized yacht clubs from around the world.

Yacht racing

The club organizes and manages Sausalito Yacht Club races as well as races for the Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay (YRA) and other organizations. SYC provides leadership for PICYA events on many occasions.

In 1991, SYC hosted the U.S. Junior Women's

Ida Lewis

U.S. Junior Women's Double-handed Championship.

Cruising

The club hosts monthly sail and power boat cruises to destinations in the Bay,

charter cruises to more far-flung destinations such as Tahiti and Croatia

.

Youth sailing program

In keeping with the tradition of the founding members, the SYC sponsors a youth sailing program open to members and non-members, providing small craft such as

junior varsity sailing programs welcome students from local high schools. During the summer, the club conducts a junior sailing camp

for new sailors as well as for those who have sailed previously and are interested in racing.

Squeegee Weegee Gazette

The Squeegee Weegee Gazette is the official publication of the Sausalito Yacht Club. It is published monthly during the summer and bimonthly during the winter months.

Photo gallery

US Junior Women's Double-handed Championship at SYC, 2008
US Junior Women's Double-handed Championship at SYC, 2008
US Melges 32 North American Sailing Championship, 2009
US Melges 32 North American Sailing Championship, 2009
US Melges 32 North American Sailing Championship, 2009
An after-work sailing race at the Sausalito Yacht Club
SYC's
race committee
boat Mercury
Mercury with IACC design America's Cup boats on San Francisco Bay in 2003

References

^ Jim Enzensperger, Roy Ashley, Bob Dinehart, John Ford, John Koenig, Park Densmore and John Hooper
^ Sausalito Yacht Club. "History of the Sausalito Yacht Club." Directory and Information Handbook 2009
^ Sausalito Yacht Club. "Election of Members." By-Laws and Constitution, Article VI, Section 4 2009

External links

37°51′23.52″N 122°28′41.83″W / 37.8565333°N 122.4782861°W / 37.8565333; -122.4782861

[1] Jim Enzensperger, Roy Ashley, Bob Dinehart, John Ford, John Koenig, Park Densmore and John Hooper

[2] Sausalito Yacht Club. "History of the Sausalito Yacht Club." Directory and Information Handbook 2009

[3] Sausalito Yacht Club. "Election of Members." By-Laws and Constitution, Article VI, Section 4 2009

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