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Cristóbal, Colón

Cristobalites eventually had their own commissary, post office, police, fire and railroad stations, churches, yacht club, YMCA, VFW, American Legion, several fraternal lodges and a masonic temple.

F.G. Mitchell

His passion was sailing and in 1931 he became Commodore of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club where he was responsible for completing the new clubhouse at Burnham-on-Crouch as well as establishing a Southern Branch at Cowes.

Long Beach Yacht Club

Long Beach Yacht Club was created when in 1929 as the result of an inquiry from the Associated Boating Industries of Northern California regarding the possibility of a powerboat race between Long Beach and San Francisco.


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1988 America's Cup

The San Diego Yacht Club responded by building two catamarans, one with a conventional soft sail (Stars & Stripes S1), and the second with a Scaled Composites -built wing mast (Stars & Stripes H3).

Ali Yıldırım Koç

Ali Koç is a Rotarian and a member of the Istanbul Open Sea Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club.

Blue Ensign

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established Canadian yacht clubs, such as, the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, Champlain Yacht Club, Montreal Yacht Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Royal Kennebaccasis Yacht Club, Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, and Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established British yacht clubs, such as the Royal Engineers Yacht Club, The Royal Motor Yacht Club, the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club.

C. Markland Kelly

He was a member of the Masonic Order, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Loyal Order of Moose, Boumi Temple Shrine, Knights Templar, Elks, Baltimore Athletic Club, Oriole Gun Club, Gibson Island Club, Maryland Yacht Club, and Annapolis Yacht club.

Cape Cod Knockabout

There is also a small racing fleet at the Split Rock Yacht Club in Essex, New York, on Lake Champlain.

Citizen Cup

The 1995 Citizen Cup regatta was won by Stars & Stripes, however, the defending San Diego Yacht Club opted to race the second-place boat Young America, sailed by the winning Stars & Stripes crew, in the succeeding America's Cup races as it was thought that this would give them the best chance of beating Black Magic of New Zealand.

Clarence Howard Clark, Jr.

He was an avid yachtman who was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia; the New York Yacht Club; and the Eastern Yacht Club and the Corinthian, both of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Commodore Clark

Edward Walter Clark, Commodore of the Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Club

Disney's Yacht Club Resort

Disney's Yacht Club is located next to a sister resort, Disney's Beach Club Resort, and across Crescent Lake from Disney's BoardWalk Resort.

Donald Dean Summerville

The Donald D. Summerville outdoor Olympic-sized pool (located at Woodbine Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard East in The Beaches) and the annual Donald Summerville Yacht Race, hosted by Ashbridge's Bay Yacht Club, are named after him.

Foulness

Great Wakering village hall and the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch were prepared as reception centres, and a flotilla of small boats, the lifeboat, a barge and an army DUKW amphibious truck reached the stranded people and evacuated them to the reception centres.

Gold Coast Broadwater

western Spit foreshores (including Sea World, Fishing fleet, Versace Hotel, Marina Mirage, Fishermans Wharf, Water Police, Sea Scouts and the Southport Yacht Club)

Herbert Pell Cup

The Herbert Claiborne Pell Cup, established in 1958, is presented by the Ida Lewis Yacht Club, of Newport, Rhode Island, to the winning Challenger for the America's Cup.

Hobart Ferry Services

Ferry services operate daily by Hobart Water Taxis;Departing Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania at 7.55am, Departing Montagu Bay at 8.00am Departing Bellerive Wharf at 8.15 am; Departing Watermans Dock in Hobart at 5.15 pm; express river crossing services for commuters in morning and evening rush hour from Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania Montagu Bay Jetty Bellerive Wharf to Sullivans Cove, Watermans Dock and return.

Istanbul International Yacht Club

The Istanbul International Yacht Club was founded by Mehmet Emin Toprak to professionalize sailing in Turkish waters by establishing off-shore racing and one-design races and to further strengthen relationships between businessmen, and sailors.

John B. Whyte

In the 1960s, Whyte bought the rebuilt Botel Pines and Dunes Yacht Club in Fire Island Pines.

Kieler

Kieler Yacht-Club or Kiel Yacht Club (as it is called in English), is one of the oldest yacht clubs in Germany

Kieler Yacht-Club

In 1914, the German Emperor got the fateful news of the assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, while he was competing on a regatta organized by the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club.

La Playa, San Diego

The neighborhood is mostly residential and contains two yacht clubs, San Diego Yacht Club and Southwestern Yacht Club.

Matthew Borden

He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Down Town Association, Jekyll Island Club, Merchants Club of New York, Metropolitan Club of New York, New England Society, New York Yacht Club, Players Club of New York, Republican Club of New York, Riding Club of New York, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Skull and Bones, South Side Sportsmen's Club, Union League Club of New York and the Whist Club of New York.

Mobile Yacht Club

The Civil War and the presence of the Union Fleet in the bay successfully discouraged yacht racing, and the activities of Mobile Yacht Club were suspended for several years.

Montauk Yacht Club

The third piece of property that forms the current Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina was the Caleb Bragg Estate.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

Ormond Yacht Club

The Ormond Yacht Club is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

Peter Conover Hains

On August 15, 1908, two of his three sons, Peter C. Hains II and Thornton Jenkins Hains, a well-known author of sea stories, were involved in the murder of William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht Club, Long Island.

Pleiades Club

He was a member of the Salesman's Association of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Chemists Club, Theta Delta Chi, Old Colony and the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club.

President's Cup Regatta

Then Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos, impressed by the success of Ray Ordoveza's "Vida" in the China Sea Race and Easter Regatta, encouraged the Manila Yacht Club to organize an International regatta at Subic in 1997.

Punta Ala

The town is famous for its sailing regattas which are held by the local "Punta Ala Yacht Club" and the well equipped tourist port, the home of Luna Rossa.

Royal Dart Yacht Club

The Royal Dart Yacht Club was founded in 1866 located in Kingswear, Devon, England.

Royal Yacht Squadron

The burgee (a triangular shaped flag identifying yacht club membership) is differenced with a St George's Cross and crown on a white background.

San Diego Yacht Club

Several high school sailing teams also sail out of the San Diego Yacht Club, including the Point Loma, Bishop's, Francis Parker, and Cathedral Catholic High School sailing teams.

Santos Dumont Airport

8 November 1940: a VASP Junkers Ju-52/3mg3e registration PP-SPF taking-off from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to São Paulo-Congonhas collided on mid-air with the de Havilland Dragonfly registration LV-KAB belonging to the Anglo Mexican Petroleum Company (Shell-Mex), which was preparing for a water-land in front of Fluminense Yacht Club, today Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club in Botafogo.

Sea View Yacht Club

The Sea View Yacht Club is in the village of Seaview, on the Isle of Wight, on the north-east coast of the island.

Shannon-One-Design

In 2010 the second episode BBC television series Three Men Go to Ireland featured the three men, Dara Ó Briain, Griff Rhys-Jones and Rory McGrath, racing SODs adjacent to the Lough Derg Yacht Club the previous October.

Stefan Janoski

Janoski was handpicked as a team member for Stevie Williams's clothing company Asphalt Yacht Club (AYC) that was launched in mid-July 2013.

Suntory Mermaid II

At approximately 1100 (Honolulu time) on March 16, 2008, then 69-year-old Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie left the Hawaii Yacht Club, Honolulu, in the Suntory Mermaid II, bound for Japan.

Tartan Ten

In 2006 twenty-five T-10s participated in the Chicago Yacht Club's Race to Mackinac (see Chicago to Mackinac Boat Race), a popular 333-mile race along the length of Lake Michigan from Chicago, IL to Mackinac Island, MI.

Thomas G. Fuller

The Britannia Yacht Club has used the tug, rigged as a pirate ship known as STV Black Jack since 1983 to train young people to sail through the Bytown Brigantine Inc.

West Lancashire Yacht Club

In 1906 the Star class, designed by George Cockshott for the West Lancashire Yacht Club, and built by Lathoms of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £32 each.

Woolverstone

The Royal Harwich Yacht Club supports The Woolverstone Project which has Paul Heiney as Patron and provides sailing for people with disabilities at Woolverstone and the nearby Alton Water reservoir.

Wroxham Broad

The project was a joint initiative involving the Broads Authority, Norfolk Broads Yacht Club and the local landowner, Trafford Estates.

Yacht Club Boys

The Yacht Club Boys was a quartet of American comic singers, popular in the 1920s and 1930s: Charles Adler, George Kelly, Billy Mann, and Jimmie Kern (later known professionally as James V. Kern).