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Founded as an informal canoe club in 1883, the Annapolis Yacht Club has built a tradition of excellence. Our mission is to encourage and support a wide range of boating activities, and to provide and maintain a suitable clubhouse and associated facilities for the recreational and social use of its members.
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AYC beginnings were in 1883 as an informal canoe club. A building was constructed two years later on a pile of oyster shells at the foot of Duke of Gloucester Street, which, in 1886, became the Clubhouse for the formally-organized Severn Boat Club. This oyster pile was rented from St. Mary’s Church and was next to a rickety wooden bridge across Spa Creek. In 1897 a new clubhouse was built and was enlarged in 1912.
In 1904, the first records of meetings indicate a membership of 30. In 1910, the first wharfs were built, and the first club manager was hired in 1911 at a salary of $15 a month. Members began to acquire small sail boats and organize club regattas. These were uncomplicated affairs held on Memorial Day and Labor Day. Shell and canoe races started up Spa Creek at Old Woman Cove and ended at the Eastport Bridge. There were also swimming races and diving competitions. The club owned several single and double shells, two four-oared shells, and was given an eight-oared shell in 1911 by the US Naval Academy.
World War I and the depression slowed boating activities until the mid-30s. A hurricane damaged the clubhouse; the wharf was reduced to pilings in 1933 and it was difficult to keep the club’s quota of 100 resident members. By 1936, there seemed to be little interest by members in the club and changes were needed. With renewal in mind, in 1937 the Annapolis Yacht Club was incorporated and the first formal regatta (Annual) was held that year. The Fall Series first year was in 1940 with five boats competing. World War II interrupted organized racing, but in 1946 the Spring Series was started with three classes – 30 Square Meters, Stars and Chesapeake 20s. By 1948, Moths, Comets and Hamptons were also taking part. The Annapolis to Newport Race (Newport to Annapolis back then) started in 1947 and has been run every two years since. A dining room was added to the club in the late 1940s and in 1948, the first Smoking Lamp newsletter appeared as a single page mimeographed sheet. The junior fleet started in 1948, and the first junior trophy was presented in 1953. The first junior boat, Dolphins, were replaced by Penguins, which were next followed by 420s which the junior fleet still races. By 1959, membership had risen to 1000 and a new club building was badly needed. This was opened in 1963, with the first deck left unfinished due to lack of funds. Frostbite and Wednesday Night Racing soon demanded more club social space, and the Skipjack Lounge was finished in 1969.
The land across the Eastport Bridge where the junior fleet building is now (Holden Property) was purchased in 1969. The junior fleet was established there and a new building for them was completed in 1995. In 1989, women were welcomed as members, and the White Rocks Marina property (now the Harborside Sailing Center) was added in 1990. The club’s first official one-design fleet, the J/22, was started in 1991 with a crane added to Harborside for launching of the boats. The clubhouse again underwent a major renovation in 1995.
Today, AYC is at full membership with very active social, racing, and cruising programs. Large international events such as the Star Class World Championship, Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship, and many North American championships are hosted every year at AYC. Harborside is filled with one design boats (J/22s, J/24s, Etchells, Stars, Melges 24) while the in-the-water boat slips are in high demand. AYC is known worldwide thanks to the members who are prominent in participating in, promoting, and organizing the sport of sailboat racing, as well as those who opt to leisurely cruise the waters of the Chesapeake and beyond.
Michael R. Krissoff
AYC Foundation President
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A fire in December of 2015 destroyed the Annapolis Yacht Club building and they are in a temporary location until a new facility can be re-built.World class racing, extensive cruising, championship junior sailing, and fantastic facilities. That's what you would expect from one of the oldest yacht clubs in the country. Founded as an informal canoe club in 1883, the Annapolis Yacht Club has built a tradition of excellence. Our mission is to encourage and support a wide range of boating activities, and to provide and maintain a suitable clubhouse and associated facilities for the recreational and social use of its members. This is a private club for members only but does have short term dockage available for non-members. Does not offer fuel.
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| those of us who are bona fide landlubbers drive by signs announcing the presence of a “yacht club” along the banks of the area’s inlets and harbors, we immediately picture an insular, clubby domain populated by the likes of Jay Gatsby and Thurston Howell III. But the 21st-century world of yachting is hardly a preserve of idle millionaires. As Jack Lynch, a member of the Annapolis Yacht Club for nearly 30 years, succinctly puts it: “For most of us, if we’re not working, we’re sailing. It’s an activity you’re involved in from the time you’re in grade school until you die.”
During the 1930s, the Depression and a damaging hurricane threatened the club’s survival. Reorganized as the Annapolis Yacht Club in 1937, the club staged competitive local races, floated a junior fleet and inaugurated a biennial Annapolis-Newport race in 1947. (The start of this 475-mile-long regatta was originally in Newport, but after years of complaints from competitors who balked at facing the often slow trip up the Chesapeake following the long ocean leg of the race, organizers reversed the course in 1957.) Between 50 and 100 ocean racing yachts typically battle each other in the Annapolis-Newport race, which can last from two to four days.
The club also owns four acres flanking the other side of the bridge (two on each side of Sixth Street), where the AYC Sailing Center is located. There the AYC’s junior fleet of dozens of one-design vessels are stored on trailers. (The hulls of one-design boats are built in compliance with specific blueprints, so that all J/22s or Finns or Optimist prams or any other class of these small, one-two person sail boats are configured in exactly the same way. This ensures that one-design sail boats race against each other on a level playing field, so to speak.) The club purchased a crane in 1991 to launch the boats in its junior fleet, and also supports a harbor of 100 slips for its members’ use.
And their boats come in all sizes. “Most members’ boats range between 25 and 50 feet; only a couple dozen are larger than 60 feet.” Lynch says, adding, “You don’t even have to own a boat—as long as you can provide some demonstrable interest in yachting.” More than 200 AYC members join committees that help support the junior fleet, stage national and international boating events, hold races for members, and promote and contribute to community-wide charitable and educational activities.
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The Annapolis Yacht Club properties span three of the four properties surrounding the Spa Creek Bridge in Annapolis. The Club boasts over 75 wet slips and dry dockage for our expanding one design fleets. The Annapolis Yacht Club is a private membership organization with a Sec. 501 (c) (7) Federal tax exemption.
Hours & Contact Facebook Weather Webcams Careers Main Clubhouse: 2 Compromise St, Annapolis, MD 21401 Sailing Center: 510 Severn Ave, Annapolis, MD 21403 Activity Center: 314 Sixth St, Annapolis, MD 21403 Clubhouse: (410) 263-9279 Accounting: (410) 263-9147 Annapolis Yacht Club
Annapolis Yacht Club is one of the oldest yacht clubs in the country and is internationally recognized by its long history of sailboat racing and world-class events since it was founded in 1886.
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Hours & Contact - Annapolis Yacht Club. Hours of Operation. Accounting Office:Monday - Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm Front Desk: Tuesday - Sunday, 9am-close Shuttle Bus: Tuesday - Saturday, 5pm-close. Main ClubhousePlease make reservations by calling the Front Desk at 410-263-9279 Please note: the Main Clubhouse is closed on Mondays.
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The Annapolis Yacht Club (AYC) has long been a fixture at the foot of Duke of Gloucester Street, on the Annapolis-side of Spa Creek. In fact, this year marks AYC's 120th anniversary. The club was originally established as an informal rowing club and was housed in a simple frame building built on a pile of oyster shells. Dubbed the "Severn Boat Club," the organization slowly expanded ...
Construction of the new Annapolis Yacht Club began last week and will bring with it a two-story addition as well as exterior and interior changes to the fire-ravaged property. The Annapolis Capital-Gazette newspaper reports that completion isn't expected until next summer. Yacht club commodore Debbie Gosselin wouldn't not give a specific date.
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Visiting yachtsmen requesting dockage or dinghy access at AYC for daytime or overnight stays should contact the AYC Dockmaster at (410) 320-4304, [email protected] in advance of their arrival for information and availability. Dockmasters are available between 0900 and 1700, 7 days a week, with extended hours Wednesday-Sunday from April ...
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BOATING. AYC supports a large number of on-the-water activities for the membership, including Team and Match Racing Programs, Radio Controlled Sailing Program, Women's Programming, Adult Sailing, Powerboat Classes, and more. The Club owns a fleet of Sonars that, with prior approval, may be chartered by members for day cruises or racing.
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With renewal in mind, in 1937 the Annapolis Yacht Club was incorporated and the first formal regatta was held that year. The Fall Series' first year was in 1940 with five boats competing. World War II interrupted organized racing, but in 1946 the Spring Series was started with three classes - 30 Square Meters, Stars, and Chesapeake 20s.