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Southern Yacht Club is located in the West End area of New Orleans, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Established in 1849, it is the second oldest yacht club in the United States.

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The Second Oldest Yacht Club

New Orleans in the antebellum era was a thriving port city, banking center and cultural leader. However, during the summer months, many New Orleanians would retreat to the Gulf Coast to flee the city’s heat, humidity and outbreaks of yellow fever. Summer homes, hotels and boarding houses dotted the coast along the Mississippi Sound to Mobile Bay. The first recorded regattas in this region were held as early as the 1830s in the coastal ports of Biloxi and Mobile.

A favorite destination among New Orleanians was the Pass Christian Hotel. There, SYC’s organizational meeting was held on July 21, 1849 and the hotel became its headquarters for several years. James W. Behan was elected as the club’s first president (the title “commodore” was not used until 1854) and eighteen yachts answered the starting gun for the club’s inaugural regatta that summer.

Activities continued at “The Pass” until 1857 when the club relocated to New Orleans and held its regattas on Lake Pontchartrain. Meetings were held at various locations in the city.

The Race to the Coast

The year after its founding, on July 4th, 1850, SYC held the first of what was to become an annual race from New Orleans to Pass Christian. The racecourse winds its way across Lake Pontchartrain, through The Rigolets to Lake Borgne and then into the Mississippi Sound. This annual Race to the Coast continues today and is among the oldest regattas still regularly contested in the United States.

A Clubhouse, at last

The seventeen years of Civil War and Reconstruction greatly curtailed boating activities until 1878 when the club was reorganized and its first postwar regatta held. The following year, a handsome clubhouse was built over the water on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. It became the scene of many elaborate social events as well as sailing competitions. In 1899 a new and larger clubhouse was erected under the leadership of Commodore Albert Baldwin. Regattas continued annually on the lake with the fleet competing each summer in interclub races on the Gulf Coast.

The Fish Class sloop, designed by SYC member Rathbone DeBuys, had its debut in 1919 and quickly became the most popular one design class in the Gulf South. Other early classes of yachts introduced were the Massachusetts Bay 21 Footer, Star and Sound Interclub.

The 1899 clubhouse was extensively enlarged and renovated in the 1920s. The grand ballroom addition hosted many gala events which featured many of the emerging jazz pioneers of the day. The grand structure saw heavy use by the US Navy and Coast Guard during World War II and, in 1949, it was replaced by a modest, concrete and steel structure. This building was expanded in the 1960s and ’80s, and another major expansion was set to begin in 2005.

The Gulf Yachting Association

In 1919, America’s Cup celebrity and sailing benefactor, Sir Thomas Lipton (who lived in New Orleans as a young man), donated an elaborate trophy to SYC for an Interclub Challenge amongst Gulf Coast yacht clubs. This effort helped spark the reorganization of the Gulf Yachting Association. Originally conceived in 1901 by members of SYC and several other Gulf Coast clubs, the GYA brought together yachtsmen from Houston to St. Petersburg and as far inland as Arkansas to encourage the sport of yacht racing.

The popular Fish Class became the standard-issue yacht of each GYA club for the annual Lipton Cup Challenge, which remains keenly contested to this day. The GYA’s year-long interclub series is named for SYC Commodore Auguste Capdevielle, who passed away in office in 1940.  In 1968, the Flying Scot replaced the aging Fish Class as the GYA interclub yacht.  Today, the GYA has over thirty member clubs.

The Olympic Games

The 1932 Olympic Games saw SYC Star Class skipper Gilbert Gray and crew, Andrew Libano, win a Gold Medal.  It was U.S.A.’s first-ever Olympic medal in sailing.  SYC sailors continued to be regular participants in the Olympic Trials, but none would reach the games until G.S. “Buddy” Friedrichs, Jr., with crew, Barton Jahncke and Click Schreck, won the Gold Medal in the Dragon Class in 1968.

SYC’s next Olympian was Flying Dutchman sailor, Steve Burdow, crewing for Paul Foerster in the 1992 Games.  The pair won the Silver Medal that year.

From 1996 to 2008, SYC was represented in four straight Olympic Games.  Skipper Johnny Lovell and crew, Charlie Ogletree, dominated the Tornado Class during this period, winning multiple national and international class championships.  Their greatest success came in 2004, when they won the Silver Medal.  In 2008, SYC would be represented in two Olympic classes in Tsingtao, China.

Luxury yacht builder John Dane, III had made several runs at the Olympics during his lifelong sailing career, but it was not until 2008, at the age of 58, that he finally achieved his goal.  Sailing in the uber-competitive Star Class, with his son-in-law as crew, John peaked at just the right time to win the Olympic Trials and represent U.S.A. in the 2008 games.  Unfortunately for both Dane and Lovell, the conditions were not as expected and their careful light-air preparation became a liability.  Neither team won a medal.

The Olympic Sailing Association at New Orleans

A Founding Member of the NSHOF, the Olympic Sailing Association was founded by SYC members to encourage development of future Olympians. This successful non-profit organization maintains a strong presence throughout the Gulf Coast region.

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans on August 29, 2005 causing widespread destruction throughout the region. Though only modestly damaged by wind and flood waters, the clubhouse was ultimately destroyed by a massive fire which burned, unchecked, in the hours following the storm. Sadly, many historic trophies and other priceless artifacts were lost in the fire.

After two years of construction and countless hours of work by Commodore Jim Wade and the Governing Committee, the new clubhouse was opened in 2009.  Once again, SYC had a permanent home and, like the previous clubhouses, it is the crown jewel of the New Orleans Lakefront.

Over the years, SYC sailors have won four Olympic medals and numerous national and international championships. Through more than one hundred and fifty years of prosperity, depressions, wars, yellow fever epidemics, floods and hurricanes, the Southern Yacht Club has always maintained a tradition of keen competition, sportsmanship and eponymous hospitality.

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San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC) sdyc.org 1011 Anchorage Lane, San Diego, CA 92106 Email: [email protected] Phone (619) 221-8400

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Year club founded: 1886 Year club joined SCYA: 1921

Total: 2000 members – 40% power, 60% sail.

Facilities: Bar open daily 1000 to 2100. Dining room open daily 0730 to 2000. Snack bar open during summer/spring vacation. Pool. Tennis courts, jacuzzi. Member berths. Dry storage. 5000 lb. & 8000 lb. hoists. Sabot launch ramp. Guest docks. Reciprocal amenities: Banquet Rooms, Showers, Sauna, Guest Docks, Sabot Launch Ramp and 6000 lb. Hoists. SDYC member only amenities: snack bar, pool, jacuzzi, tennis courts, gym, wet slips, and dry storage.

Membership: Accepting applications. 2 sponsors plus 6 references. Initiation: sliding scale based on age. None for juniors.

Monthly dues: $150/flag, $75Jr Flag, $23/ Juniors. $150 quarterly food and beverage minimum.

Junior program: Exceptionally strong year round program for members.

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The next day, Brock De Lappe, a former harbor master and Alameda resident, walked over to the rock wall. The boat floated nose up, half submerged in water. From the shore, he could see its registration number had been scratched off the side, a practice some owners take to avoid having a jettisoned boat traced back to them.

De Lappe took photos and documented the craft, adding to a comprehensive collection of shipwrecks and marine debris he has documented for years.

“Who is going to pay to remove that boat?” De Lappe said. “This shouldn’t happen.”

There are hundreds of thousands of boats registered in California — the fourth-most in the nation — and the state’s $10 billion recreational boating community supports tens of thousands of jobs. But the state has few comprehensive plans for disposing of aging or abandoned boats. Registration and insurance requirements are limited and rarely enforced. There is no registration requirement for new owners.

Although shipwrecks can conjure romantic images of treasure and adventure, in the Bay Area they are more likely to serve as environmental and navigational hazards. When owners get fed up with aging, costly vessels, they often dump their boats in the bay, sometimes filled to the brim with trash. Frequently, there are pollutants onboard — gas, chemicals, even sewage.

“They basically become a floating landfill,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Bay Keeper, a local environmental nonprofit.

Eileen Zedd, the harbormaster and property manager of the publicly owned Alameda Marina, said she has observed an unfortunate pattern in the final stages of a faltering boat’s life. People rent spots for their vessels in the marina, and later run into financial trouble, or lose interest in boating, or can’t afford their boat’s upkeep. They fall behind with their payments. And ultimately, they walk away, leaving the marina with an aging vessel in poor condition.

“There’s this cycle that repeats itself,” Zedd said. “It’s really hard for marina operators to deal with these types of situations, but there’s just not much help out there.”

In order to gain ownership of the abandoned boat, allowing them to access funds that will help them remove it, marinas must undertake a months-long lien process. They may have to pay hundreds or even thousands in back taxes to the county. Meanwhile, the boat takes up a slip, no longer making any money for the business.

To avoid that outcome, some marina operators have long sold abandoned boats to interested buyers for as little as one dollar.

“In some cases, you get someone who is into boats who wants to fix it up,” Zedd said. “In other cases, it’s people who want to anchor it out, and they never get it registered, and they move it around the estuary and other parts of the Bay.”

In a Bay Area grappling with a homeless and housing crisis, some of these abandoned boats have become homes for those who might otherwise be unhoused. “Anchor-outs” is a catchall term for people living rent-free in waterways across the Bay Area.

Richardson Bay near Sausalito has long hosted a large anchor-out community, as has the Oakland Estuary.

Earlier this summer, the anchor-out community in Oakland found itself at the center of a maelstrom when a “pirate” crime spree brought intensified scrutiny to the waterway. Over a three-week span in August, dozens of small boats and dinghies were stolen, stripped for parts and sunk. The boating community pointed the finger at anchor-outs living near Oakland’s Union Point Park.

That crime wave led to greater coordination between Oakland and Alameda police, and a renewed emphasis on clearing the estuary of anchor-outs.

But long before that rash of crimes, advocates had raised the alarm over the problem of abandoned boats in the estuary.

De Lappe, for one, has spent years chronicling abandoned and sunken boats in the estuary. In the early 2010s, there were dozens of people living illegally in poorly maintained vessels, at least some of whom had bought boats abandoned in marinas, and a number of sunken vessels, he said. After many grant applications and coordination, a multi-agency effort in 2013 brought the estuary back to pristine condition.

“At the end of that, the estuary was totally, totally clean,” De Lappe said. “For a long time, it was okay, but then of course we gradually started to get more anchor-outs.”

At the end of December, Oakland police undertook another expensive cleanup, the second in 10 years, removing at least a dozen abandoned or derelict boats and demolishing them in Jack London Square. The police department is still applying for a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for money to salvage sunken boats.

But as the estuary returns to a healthier state, advocates like De Lappe are asking if we truly resolved the problem, or just completed another cycle in an endless loop.

The Surrendered and Abandoned Vessel Exchange program, established by the California Division of Boating and Waterways in 2014, is intended to help dispose of abandoned vessels. The grant program provides funds to local agencies for the “abatement, removal, and disposal of recreational vessels that are abandoned or creating a nuisance in public waterways.”

According to the state, these grants have offered approximately $20 million for the removal and disposal of 5,352 recreational vessels across the state.

Still, the fund is not a panacea. There is only $2.7 million available each year, an amount intended to cover all of California, and half as much as observers say is needed. Meanwhile, privately owned marinas are not eligible to receive the grant funds directly, but rather must partner with local agencies who have other priorities for the money. Marinas are also only eligible to access a grant once they’ve navigated the challenges of the lien process and actually gained ownership of the boat.

“There are just so many hoops you have to jump through,” Zedd said. “It’s a nightmare.”

There is no dedicated recycling center for boats in California, so many abandoned vessels are turned into expensive trash. The boats crushed at Jack London Square were ultimately sent to a landfill. And although the Division of Boating and Waterways says it encourages marinas to be “proactive with promoting the surrendered vessel program” and encouraging responsible ownership, in reality, according to harbormasters, that doesn’t always happen.

“I think the SAVE program is a good starting point, it incentives people to bring in their boats,” Choksi-Chugh said. “But it doesn’t go far enough; there are still changes we see that need to be made.”

Without changes such as insurance and registration requirements, and greater leeway for marinas, neglected or abandoned boats will continue to end up in public waterways, Choksi-Chugh said. At least some eventually sink, and the cycle begins anew.

“There’s no such thing as a cheap boat,” Zedd said.

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This fantastic club already boasts group exercise, aquatics, and tennis unrivaled by any gym or fitness club, along with fun-filled social and family programming. And we’ve transformed this property into the Bay Club’s third South Bay sports resort with a spectacular $20 million renovation!

We’ve completed a full locker room renovation and opened our brand-new 12,000-square-foot fitness atrium, along with our refreshed gymnasium that now accommodates basketball, volleyball, futsal, badminton, pickle ball, floor hockey, and more. And squash, a cornerstone of our Santa Clara community, is even better with the addition of two new courts, making this a 6-court squash center!

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Scvkwg club turns 40 this summer  , annual membership drive in progress which covers from july 1, 2024 to june 30, 2025.   club dues are $50.00 per year (up to 2 adults/ 2 children)..

Our club has provided a community for DYI Koi  keepers,  water gardeners, and aquaponic enthusiasts that fosters greater understanding and appreciation of these fine and eco-friendly hobbies in San Jose  and the greater South Bay Area.

Thank you to the many, many members, supporters, and friends over the past forty years.  We started out as a small group of koi keepers who met monthly at each others ponds for fellowship and information on the many aspects of koi keeping, pond building /maintenance and water gardening.

Today we continue that tradition along with our other club activates. July is our membership drive – renew or join today.  See you at and upcoming event or meeting.

Next Pond Social – July 27th – San Jose 11 AM to 2 PM , San Jose, CA.  RSVP to [email protected] by July 22 nd .

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We will do our best to provide assistance. Our membership has much combined experience with most Koi, pond, and water gardening issues.   If you have a question or issue contact us at [email protected] .

Santa Clara Valley Koi and Water Garden Club is a non-profit organization that promotes and educates the public about the hobbies of Koi keeping, water gardening, and aquaponics.  We also assist with Koi fish rescue and relocation.

We meet most months on the third Tuesday  at 7:30 PM (except February / November).   The club uses a hybrid approach with general meetings taking place using Zoom or in-person depending upon event / social / meet up.   We  host an annual holiday event (in person) the first weekend in December.

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Our club is affiliated with the International Water Lily and Water Garden Society (IWGS) and K.O.I (Koi Organization International).  Club dues are $50.00 per year per household (up to 2 adults/ 2 children) (Rates increase to $50 per year per household beginning July 1, 2024).  To join the club, send contact information with dues to:   SCVKWG, PO Box 54368, San Jose, CA, 95154. 

Guests are welcome to attend their first meeting or two, we ask that if guests would like to attend more frequently that they join the club by paying dues. 

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• Mailing Address :   PO Box 54368, San Jose, CA 95154
• Meeting Location :  The club uses a hybrid approach for monthly meetings depending season utilizing both Zoom and in-person formats.   In addition to monthly meetings, the membership meets up at member’s ponds for socials, we visit public spaces, and attend events that are of interest to our group.

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