The Sayville Yacht Club is a personal yacht club with its facilities located in Blue Point, New York.

The SYC is “exclusive” in its membership, which requires that candidates submit names of present members as references.

History
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It was based in Sayville, New York in 1901, before the first World Warfare. John Ellis Roosevelt, a cousin of two United States Presidents throughout his life, was a co-founder of The Sayville Yacht Membership, and served as its inaugural Commodore from 1901 to 1907.[1] Within the 1920s, Brooklyn businessman and local Sayville developer Russell Perrine was the Commodore.[2]

By 1929, it was considered one of a dozen sailing clubs on the South Shore of Long Island.[3]

The membership fell on arduous times during the good Depression and grew to become inactive. After the Second World Conflict, a gaggle of native residents and battle veterans reclaimed the membership’s charter and relocated the SYC to its present location. Land was acquired and the club’s first clubhouse, a Victorian bath house, was floated from Cherry Grove, New York.

Early Commodores of the Sayville Yacht Club included many of those lively in re-activating the membership, including George C. Palmer, Douglas Westin, and George Heinrich.

Paul Jon Patin, representing the membership, came in second by 1/2 point within the 1985 national Sunfish class race.[4]

The SYC, as of 2021, one of many leading yacht racing clubs on the nice South Bay, winning the “Great South Bay Yacht Racing Affiliation JR Doublehanded Championship for the Patin Trophy.”[5] Their teenage members also have competed in 2024 in a national regatta.[6][7]

The SYC has hosted occasions such as the Laser U.S. Nationals, Thistle Nationals, Sunfish North Americans,[8] and the Corinthian US Nationwide Championship.[9]

^ “The History Since 1901” (PDF). Sayville Yacht Club. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ American Lumberman: 76. 1928 https://books.google.com/books?id=QXscAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Sayville+Yacht+Membership%22+-wikipedia&pg=RA14-PA76. Retrieved November 21, 2024. cite journal: Lacking or empty |title= (assist)

^ “Yacht clubs on cruising routes”. Motor Boating. Vol. 44, no. 6. December 1, 1929. p. 64. ISSN 1531-2623. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ Scheib, Flora Ok. (1986). Historical past of the Southern Yacht Club. Arcadia Publishing. p. 419. ISBN 9781455605866. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ Al Rashdan, Katherine (August 19, 2021). “Regatta enjoyable in Bellport”. Long Island Advance. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ “Powerful winds cut brief nationwide regatta for teenage sailors on the great South Bay”. Newsday. August 10, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ “Sailing the nice South Bay: Local sailors take to the sea”. Suffolk County Information. September 2, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ “Yacht clubs on cruising routes”. Motor Boating. Vol. 128, no. 1. July 1, 1971. p. 22. ISSN 1531-2623. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

^ Howell, Julie; Howell, Christopher (Might 20, 2024). “2nd annual J/24 Corinthian US National Championship at Sayville Yacht Club”. Sail-World. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

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