Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (Chinese: 香港遊艇會) is a Hong Kong sports club for sailing and rowing. Founded as Hong Kong Corinthian Sailing Club in 1890 and became the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in 1894.
It is one of the few local institutions which kept its prefix "Royal" after Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
Early members were British only and military personnel on the board. Today, members are a mix of British expatriates and local Chinese.
Facilities
The main buildings of the club are located by Victoria Harbour on the former Kellett Island, now part of Causeway Bay. The Clubhouse was built on the foundations of the old Naval Powder Magazine. It was moved there in 1938[1].
Prior to that, it was located at No. 12 Oil Street, in North Point before reclamation,[2] when it lost its waterfront location. The former headquarter and clubhouse in Oil Street, built in the Arts and Crafts style, had been officially opened on 21 March 1908 by the then Governor Sir Frederick Lugard. The building was subsequently used as a garage, government staff quarters until 1998, as a storehouse of the Antiquities and Monuments Office until late 2007, and is currently vacant. It has been listed as a Grade II historic building since 1995.[3]
In addition to Kellett Island, the club has two other clubhouses:[4]
- on Middle Island
- in Shelter Cove, Sai Kung
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