Yale Corinthian Yacht Club
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| Founded | 1881 |
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| Clubhouse | 179 Clark Avenue, Branford, Connecticut 06405 |
| Country |  United States
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| Commodore | Marla Menninger |
| One-Design fleets | 420 (20) Flying Junior (12) Laser (4) |
| Website | www.yale.edu/ycyc |
Yale Corinthian Yacht Club is the home yacht club for the Yale University Coed and Women's Sailing Teams. It is located at 179 Clark Avenue in Branford, Connecticut. Founded in 1881, it is the oldest collegiate sailing club in the world.
It is generally abbreviated as "YCYC" and is affectionately pronounced "yic-yic."
Contents
Description of the Facility
Fleet
YCYC is home to the fleet of the Yale University Sailing Team's dinghies. These include 20 new Vanguard Club 420s, 12 Vanguard Flying Juniors (FJs), and 4 Vanguard Lasers.
History
Founding
The Fifties
The beginning of the fifties found the YCYC with four wooden Dyer dinghies, purchased I know not when. Being wooden, lapstrake boats, they were sturdy, but unable to withstand the neglect inherent in ownership by a rather nomadic, casual student sailing club. During my Prep School days I had enjoyed considerable summer success sailing scows in Wisconsin, and so when I appeared on the New Haven scene in September 1949, I immediately joined the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, hoping to be able to represent the University in sailing competition. In the years immediately prior to 1949, the YCYC had done extremely well in InterCollegiate competition, and I was eager to join the team. Easily done, as it turned out, because the sailing stars had all graduated, and I was one of the few YCYC members, actually, one of the few YCYC members, that had any racing experience whatsoever. As I recall, David Toy, a California Snipe sailor and I, both Freshmen, were about the only YCYC members who had much of any racing experience as skippers.
The four Dyers were kept in Milford, upside down on the beach, with the sails and other paraphernalia in a shed at the edge of the Milford Yacht Club property. Since the YCYC had no University support, the operation was shoestring, to say the least. The Dyers were intended only for practice, and all competitions were staged at the magnificent facilities of Harvard/MIT (shared on the Charles River), Brown, the Coast Guard Academy, Kings Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis, the latter a really significant drive pre-Interstate system. ' H. Coleman Norris, Yale '53 (JE)
Renovations
With additional funding from an anonymous donor, the yacht club underwent a major renovation in the spring of 2002 that was completed in the fall of that year.
Renaming
Yale University Sailing Team
The Yale Sailing Team participates in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association.
Current Captains
- Joseph Morris (Co-ed Team)
- Blair Belling (Women's Team)
Notable Alumni
- Steve Benjamin
- JJ Fetter Isler
- Dave Perry
- Zack Leonard
- Stan Honey
- Jonathan McKee
- Dick Carter
- Harry Anderson, Jr.
Summer Program
The yacht club hosts a summer program annually for youth and adults in the interest of teaching novices to sail and race while partially funding the college team's racing activity.[1]
References
- ↑ "YCYC Summer Program". http://www.yale.edu/ycyc/summer/. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
