New York Yacht Club
| Short name | NYYC |
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| Founded | July 30, 1844;180 years ago (1844-07-30) |
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The New York Yacht Club ( NYYC ) is a private social club and yacht club based in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island . It was founded in 1844 by nine prominent sportsmen. The members have contributed to the sport of yachting and yacht design. As of 2001, the organization was reported to have about 3,000 members. [1] Membership in the club is by invitation only. Its officers include a commodore , vice-commodore, rear-commodore, secretary and treasurer.
Main Clubhouse New York City
Harbour court, newport rhode island, new york yacht club stations c. 1894, racing and the america's cup, notable members, further reading, external links.
The club is headquartered at the New York Yacht Club Building in New York City. The America's Cup trophy was won by members in 1851 and held by the NYYC until 1983 . The NYYC successfully defended the trophy twenty-four times in a row before being defeated by the Royal Perth Yacht Club , represented by the yacht Australia II . The NYYC's reign was the longest winning streak as measured by years in the history of all sports. [2]
The NYYC entered 2021 and 2024 America's Cup competition under the syndicate name American Magic . [3]
In 1845, the club's first clubhouse was established—a modest, Gothic-revival building in Hoboken, New Jersey , designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis , on land donated by Commodore John Cox Stevens . [4] [5] After outgrowing its cramped quarters, the club moved to the McFarlane–Bredt House in Staten Island , [6] then to Madison Avenue in Manhattan . [4] [5] The Hoboken clubhouse itself was physically relocated to Glen Cove, New York , then to Mystic, Connecticut . [7]
The present primary clubhouse is the New York Yacht Club Building , a six-storied Beaux-Arts landmark with a nautical-themed limestone facade, at 37 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan . Opened in 1901, the clubhouse was designed by Warren and Wetmore (1898), who later helped design Grand Central Terminal . [8] The centerpiece of the clubhouse is the "Model Room", which contains a notable collection of full and half hull models including a scale model history of all New York Yacht Club America's Cup challenges. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. [4] [5] [9]
As Penn Club of New York (est. 1901) became the first alumni clubhouse to join Clubhouse Row for inter-club events at 30 West 44th Street [10] after Harvard Club of New York City (est. 1888) at 27 West 44th, New York Yacht Club (est. 1899) became the first non-alumni clubhouse to join at 37 West 44th, then Yale Club of New York City (est. 1915) on East 44th (and Vanderbilt) and Cornell Club of New York (est. 1989) at 6 East 44th on the same block, with Princeton Club of New York joining in 1963 at 15 West 43rd (the only alumni clubhouse who wasn't on 44th Street, whose members, part of the staff, and in-residence club, Williams College Club of New York were absorbed into Penn Club following a previous visiting reciprocity agreement between the Princeton-Penn Clubs, before Princeton's went out of business during COVID). [11] [12] Despite being in New York City, Columbia University Club of New York (est. 1901) left Princeton after residence agreement issues [13] [14] to become in-residence at The Penn Club, while Dartmouth shares the Yale Club, and Brown shares the Cornell Club.
To better host regattas, in 1988, the club purchased an impressive water front property in Newport, Rhode Island . [15]
The New York Yacht Club was founded on July 30, 1844, by nine gentlemen. John Cox Stevens , the leader of this group, and a prominent citizen of New York with a passion for sports, was elected commodore. [16] John Clarkson Jay of Rye , one of the nine founders, was a grandson of Founding Father John Jay and served as the first Secretary of the board. [17] George L. Schuyler and Hamilton Wilkes were also NYYC founders who, together with Stevens and two others, created the syndicate that built and raced the great schooner-yacht, America . Wilkes served as the club's first vice-commodore. Schuyler played a key role in the founding of the America's Cup regatta , and served as its unofficial consultant until his death in 1890. [18]
In 1845, the club's burgee was designed. [19] The waters off Newport have been a key sailing venue for the NYYC since the beginning of its history. Indeed, the day the club was founded in 1844, its members resolved to sail from the Battery to Newport. Two days later, they did, with several stops on the way, and trials of speed.
During the first decades of the club's history, racing for prize money was the objective among most members. In 1851 , a syndicate of NYYC enthusiasts built and raced America , capturing the "One Hundred Sovereign Cup" at the annual regatta of the Royal Yacht Squadron . On July 8, 1857, the coveted trophy was donated to the NYYC, to serve as a challenge cup for sportsmanlike competition between nations. The " America's Cup Race ", named for its first winner, played a central role in the history of the club until this day.
In 1865, the club was incorporated, adopting the Latin motto: "Nos agimur tumidis velis" – "We go with swelling sails" (adapted from the verse of the famous Roman poet Horace , "Non agimur tumidis uelis", "We do not go with swelling sails", in Epistles , 2, 2, 201). During this time, membership transitioned from the "old guard" to a new generation of yachtsmen, who built large schooner yachts captained by professionals. Marking this evolution was the 1866 resignation of Commodore Edwin Augustus Stevens , brother of founder John Cox Stevens and member of the America syndicate.
The year 1866 is remembered in club annals for the legendary "Transatlantic Race". In December, the NYYC schooners Henrietta , Fleetwing , and Vesta raced from Sandy Hook to The Needles , Isle of Wight for a $90,000 winner-take-all prize. The Henrietta , owned by 21-year-old James Gordon Bennett Jr. , and skippered by Captain Samuel S. Samuels , won the race in 13 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes. Bennett would be elected commodore in 1871.
On August 8, 1870, the schooner Magic represented the New York Yacht Club in the international 1870 America's Cup competition in the New York Harbor and was won by Franklin Osgood 's American yacht Magic . She beat 17 competitors, including the English yacht Cambria and the yachts Dauntless, Idler, Fleetwing, Phantom, America and others. [20]
In 1876, the Mohawk , a large centerboard schooner, capsized due to its sheets being "made fast" (fastened securely) when a freak squall struck. Vice-Commodore William T. Garner, his wife and crew died in the accident. It is believed that this tragedy led to the extinction of the great centerboard schooner yachts. The Mohawk was later sold to the U.S. Navy and recommissioned as the USS Eagre .
In 1895, Richard H. Barker composed 'The yacht club march: march and two-step: for piano' in honor of the New York Yacht Club. [21]
In 1994, as part of the club's 150th anniversary celebrations, Melissa H. Harrington wrote the book The New York Yacht Club, 1844–1994 . [22]
By 1894, the New York Yacht Club had a number of Clubhouses: Station 1 in Bay Ridge ; 2 in New York NY; 3 in Whitestone NY ; 4 in New London, Connecticut ; 5 in Shelter Island, New York ; 6 in Newport RI; 7 in Vineyard Haven and at Rendezvous Glen Cove. In 1868, the club bought a big mansion used as Station 2 at Rosebank, Staten Island . This building still stands and is known as the McFarlane–Bredt House .
Former Commodore J. P. Morgan was present at a board meeting on 27 October 1898 to discuss the construction of a new clubhouse. Morgan offered to acquire a 75-by-100-foot (23 by 30 m) plot on 44th Street in midtown Manhattan [23] [24] if the NYYC raised its annual membership dues from $25 to $50 and if the new clubhouse occupied the entire site. [24] The board accepted his offer, and Morgan bought the lots the next day for $148,000 and donated to the club. [25] [26]
Members hosted an informal housewarming party on 29 January 1901 and gave Morgan a trophy in gratitude of his purchase of the site. [27] [28]
Following the disastrous [ clarification needed ] Bay of Quinte America's Cup challenge in 1881, the club's committee voted a new rule to govern its races: [29]
The America's Cup challenges of 1885, 1886 and 1887 used this rule with an 85 ft (25.91 m) waterline length limit. In 1887, the NYYC adopted the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club 's rating rule, which handicapped length comparatively less. Then, in 1903, the NYYC changed its rating system to the "Herreshoff Rule", devised by the yacht designer, Nathanael Herreshoff . Later renamed the "Universal Rule", it would be adopted by the majority of leading American yacht clubs. The rule governed yacht design for almost forty years.
The America's Cup was held for 132 years, from 1851 until Australia II defeated Dennis Conner 's Liberty off Newport, Rhode Island in 1983 . This record remains the longest winning streak in sports history.
Since the loss of the Cup the NYYC has been forced to reinvent itself and the club has become involved in team racing , dinghy racing , youth sailing, and international regattas. In 2002 the Club hosted the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Sloop North American Championships. In 2006 the Club hosted the Blind Sailing World Championships . [30]
The NYYC entered 2021 America's Cup represented by the American Magic team, led by Terry Hutchinson and Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. In May 2018, it was announced that Dean Barker will helm the boat. [31] "American Magic" references the first Cup winner, the yacht America , and the first defender, the yacht Magic . [32]
- "Annual Regatta", started in 1846
- NYYC Invitational Cup
- 2005 Rolex Transatlantic Challenge
- "New York Yacht Club Cruise", an annual series of races held in July or August
- "Queen's Cup Trophy"
- "Corsair Cup"
- "Astor Cups"
- "Solution Trophy"
The club has held a number of World Championships including J/70 World Championship , Melges 20 World Championship , Melges 32 World Championship , Etchells World Championship , Farr 40 World Championship , TP52 World Championship , 12-metre Worlds and the ORC World Championship,
- Winthrop W. Aldrich
- Brooke Astor
- John Jacob Astor , real estate mogul
- Vincent Astor
- George Fisher Baker
- August Belmont
- James Gordon Bennett Jr. , newspaper publisher
- Michael Bloomberg , Mayor of New York City
- John Nicholas Brown II , philanthropist
- Frederick Gilbert Bourne
- William F. Buckley , author and commentator
- William A. Chanler , explorer, soldier and US Congressman
- Robert H. Conn , Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- Dennis Conner , racing yacht captain
- William P. Cronan , 19th Naval Governor of Guam
- Walter Cronkite , newscaster
- Chris Dodd , United States senator
- Pete DuPont , governor of Delaware
- Elbridge Thomas Gerry
- Jay Gould , railroad tycoon
- James Alexander Hamilton, 3rd son of Alexander Hamilton, won first America's Cup in 1851
- Alfred Walton Hinds , 17th Naval Governor of Guam
- Charles Oliver Iselin
- Charles O'Neal , politician
- Arthur Curtiss James
- Gary Jobson
- Edward Kennedy Jr. , son of United States Senator
- Dennis Kozlowski (resigned)
- Herbert F. Leary , Vice admiral in the Navy
- Lewis Cass Ledyard
- John Lehman , Secretary of the Navy
- Bernard Madoff (resigned)
- Clarence Moore , businessman
- J. P. Morgan , financier
- J. P. Morgan Jr.
- Junius Spencer Morgan III
- Emil Mosbacher
- Robert Mosbacher
- Franklin Osgood (1826–1888), served three terms as Rear-Commodore; member of first America's Cup Committee (1869) [33]
- Frank F. Olney (1851–1903), 18th Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island [34]
- Trenor Luther Park elected 1883, owned the Sultana
- Jonas M. Platt , major general in the Marine Corps
- Michael J. Quigley , Naval Intelligence Officer
- David Rockefeller , banker
- Franklin D. Roosevelt , 32nd President of the United States
- Gary Roughead , 29th Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy
- Arthur J. Santry, Jr. Chief Executive Officer, Combustion Engineering and Commodore NYYC [35]
- Elliott Fitch Shepard , lawyer and newspaper owner [36]
- Alfred P. Sloan
- George J. Smith , U.S. Congressman and cigar manufacturer [37]
- John Cox Stevens
- Olin Stephens , yacht designer
- Ted Turner , media mogul
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III , Army general
- Harold Stirling Vanderbilt , railroad executive
- Thomas Watson Jr.
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- ↑ Landlocked Berth for Boat Lovers; New York Yacht Club Spruces Up Its Grand Home And Finds It Can Thrive Without America's Cup , James Barron, The New York Times , 03 Feb 2001, "The effort to add fresh blood to the blue blood has increased the roster to about 3,000 members."
- ↑ "CAMPAIGN FOR 36TH AMERIca's CUP PAIRS TWO SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN RACING PROGRAMS WITH NEW YORK YACHT CLUB - News - New York Yacht Club" .
- 1 2 3 "New York Yacht Club" . National Historic Landmark summary listing . National Park Service. September 17, 2007. Archived from the original on January 6, 2008.
- 1 2 3 " "New York Yacht Club", October 1985, by James H. Charleston" . National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination . National Park Service. October 1985.
- ↑ Gray, Christopher (September 8, 1991). "Streetscapes: The McFarlane-Bredt House; The Old Yacht Club On Staten Island" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved October 26, 2022 .
- ↑ Verde, Tom (December 26, 1999). "The View From/Mystic; New York Yacht Club Reclaims Its Clubhouse" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved October 26, 2022 .
- ↑ http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/310 Whitney Warren Dictionary of Architects in Canada
- ↑ "New York Yacht Club--Accompanying photo, exterior, undated" . National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination . National Park Service. October 1985.
- ↑ Slatin, Peter (May 9, 1993). "Penn's Racing to Join Clubhouse Row" . New York Times . Archived from the original on November 30, 2020 . Retrieved November 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Chao, Eveline (January 7, 2022). "It Wasn't Just the Pandemic That Closed the Princeton Club" . Curbed . Archived from the original on November 3, 2022 . Retrieved November 3, 2022 .
- ↑ "Williams Club in New York moves to Penn Club building" .
- ↑ "The Columbia Club's New Home" . Columbia College Today . July 5, 2017 . Retrieved October 30, 2021 .
- ↑ Skelding, Conor (August 4, 2016). "Columbia, Princeton clubs at impasse over residence agreement" . Politico . Retrieved October 29, 2021 .
- ↑ "NYYC - Harbour Court" . June 29, 2023.
- ↑ "Who founded the New York Yacht Club today in 1844?" . Grateful American Foundation . July 12, 2015 . Retrieved October 23, 2021 .
- ↑ Clary, Suzanne. "A Legacy of Sailing: Owners of the Jay Estate & Yachting in New York 1843 - 1966". Rye Magazine: Weston Magazine, Inc. (38): 244. Retrieved January 2, 2016 – via issuu.
- ↑ "New York Yacht Club" . National Sailing Hall of Fame . Retrieved October 23, 2021 .
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- ↑ "The Yachts and the Coming Race; Visiting the Cambria, Dauntless and America--Arrangements for the Great Race on Monday Next--The Entries--The Course, &c" (PDF) . The New York Times . New York, New York. August 4, 1870 . Retrieved June 13, 2021 .
- ↑ Richard H. Barker 'The yacht club march: march and two-step: for piano' (Toronto : Whaley, Royce & Co., c1895)
- ↑ Melissa H. Harrington The New York Yacht Club, 1844-1994 (Lyme, Conn.: Greenwich Pub. Group, 1994)
- ↑ "Yachting: Commodore Morgan Gives the New-york Club a Site for a House to Race for the Canadian Cup Yacht Associations Meet". New-York Tribune . October 28, 1898. p. 4. ProQuest 574511646 .
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- ↑ "N.Y.Y.C. Honors J.P. Morgan: Silver Loving Cup Presented to the Club's Ex-commodore". The New York Times . January 30, 1901. p. 7. ISSN 0362-4331 . ProQuest 1013633831 .
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- ↑ Thomas W. Lawson (1902). The Lawson history of the America's Cup . Sheridan House. ISBN 978-0-907069-40-9 .
- ↑ Hargraves, Carly (January 30, 2006). "2006 IFDS Blind Sailing World Championships - Yachting Australia" . www.yachting.org.au . Yachting Australia. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015 . Retrieved October 1, 2015 .
- ↑ "Dean Barker leads Kiwi quartet as helmsman for New York's 2021 America's Cup bid" . May 2018.
- ↑ Alan Baldwin (March 27, 2018). Ed Osmond (ed.). "Sailing: 'American Magic' to challenge for 2021 America's Cup" . Reuters .
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Beyond the Gilded AgeDedicated to an era long gone featuring architectural photographs of houses, hotels, apartment and office buildings, civic institutions and more...many of which are no longer standing. Thursday, January 12, 2012The new york yacht club.  7 comments:This is one of the coolest buildings in NYC for sure. Incredible interpretation of ship details throughout the club make for an amazingly inspired work of architecture. The building is also located on one of the best blocks for architecture with historic hotels and other club facilities lending a very dignified atmosphere to the streetscape. Interior views: http://www.nyyc.org/clubhouse/ The restoration of the pergola made a great improvement to the exterior. It took me 6 hours to realize I had posted two of the same photo of the Grill Room. Oops. Aren't the bay windows terrific? Rarely there is an event there that non-members can attend; next time I hear of one, I'll let you know. Inside and out, this is just one of the great and entertaining buildings of its era. I never get tired of it. Warren and Wetmore knew how to color outside the lines. Ancient...thank you for the link...this place is amazing! I have had the pleasure of going to a dinner at this club inside the model room. Incredible place and amazing history for anyone interested in racing sailboats. I have been racing for over 40 years and my friend and captian of the boat we sail works for a shipping company and invited me to the dinner. I spent most of the night walking around looking at evrything I could. Amazing night. Post a Comment If you enjoy Beyond the Gilded Age...Or try this..., search beyond the gilded age.... Architects...
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John Rousmaniere’s many books include The Golden Pastime: A New History of Yachting, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship , and histories of the America’s Cup, maritime photography, ocean racing, and classic yachts. His Fastnet, Force 10 was hailed as “a narrative worthy of the best sea literature” by the Los Angeles Times . Sail magazine called A Berth to Bermuda “Both a grand entertainment and an invaluable resource for aficionados of the sport of ocean racing.” The New York Yacht Club: A History, 1844-2008 by John RousmaniereThis definitive new history of America's oldest yacht club and one of the world's best known clubs covers the Club from its founding in the cabin of a small sloop in 1844 through the America's Cup years - the longest winning streak in history - before the cup was finally lost in 1983. Since then, the Club has found a whole new, dynamic life as an active, modern yacht club that still treasures its past with its superb clubhouses and fabulous art collections in New York and Newport, RI. This lavishly illustrated book will be an engaging account of yachts, races, and personalities with names like Harold Vanderbilt, J. Pierpont Morgan, Dennis Conner, Ted Turner, and today's great sailors who have shaped the Club and worldwide yachting. Author John Rousmaniere is America's preeminent yachting historian. His many books include The Golden Pastime: A New History of Yachting; The Low Black Schooner: Yacht America, 1851-1945; A Berth to Bermuda: 100 Years of the World's Classic Ocean Race; and Fastnet, Force 10. ISBN: 978-0-9706-442-2-0 ISBN Limited Edition: : 978-0-9706-442-3-7 10 x 10, 336 pages, October 2008 200 color and black and white illustrations, hardcover Watch a preview of It's All About the Sailing , A Companion DVD to The New York Yacht Club: A History, 1844-2008 
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Its officers include a commodore, vice-commodore, rear-commodore, secretary and treasurer. The club is headquartered at the New York Yacht Club Building in New York City. The America's Cup trophy was won by members in 1851 and held by the NYYC until 1983.
The Isle of Wight in the Solent has long been the epicenter of yachting in England. In 1851, a schooner painted black arrived there looking to win races. This was the yacht America, owned by John Cox Stevens, the first commodore of the NYYC and other club members.
On July 30, 1844, John Cox Stevens (1785-1857) and eight of his friends met aboard Stevens’ yacht Gimcrack, anchored off the Battery in New York Harbor. That afternoon, they established the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) and made three critical decisions that day: first, they elected Stevens as Commodore of the Club; second, they agreed to ...
The NYYC was started seven years before, on July 30, 1844, when John Cox Stevens invited eight friends to his yacht Gimcrack, anchored in New York Harbor. The nine who met 169 years ago resolved to form the NYYC and named Stevens commodore.
The New York Yacht Club (NYYC) is a private social club and yacht club based in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1844 by nine prominent sportsmen. The members have contributed to the sport of yachting and yacht design.
The New York Yacht Club designed by Warren & Wetmore c. 1899 at 37 West 44th Street in New York City. Founded in 1844, members of the club spent much of their time racing yachts for prize money.
Larchmont Yacht Club. Located in Westchester County, New York, the Club has been in existence since 1880 when it was purchased by Benjamin A. Carver, a railroad magnate.
This definitive new history of America's oldest yacht club and one of the world's best known clubs covers the Club from its founding in the cabin of a small sloop in 1844 through the America's Cup years - the longest winning streak in history - before the cup was finally lost in 1983.
Ordered by members of the New York Yacht Club and designed and built by the great Nathaniel Herreshoff & Company, these boats were launched in 1905 and quickly became the most significant and beloved one-design class in the history of the New York Yacht Club.