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 HARD TO SEE IT NOW - but another season will round the mark!
 J33 - MOONGATOR
Owned by The Brothers Quackenbush
Photo by:  Seymour Paul

SBYC WINTER DINNER, Saturday 2/11, 6pm
 SBYC's annual WINTER DINNER will be held at Captain Jack's Goodtime Tavern, with cocktails at 6pm, and dinner at 7pm. Entree choices include chicken, beef, salmon or vegetarian selctions, with the trimmings, and live music. RSVP required.

CLUBS ON THE LAKE
Not to tell you where to go, but as a member of the Sodus Bay Yacht Club, you would have reciprocal privleges at clubs all around Lake Ontario, and across the country. The nice folks from National Yacht Club in Toronto were kind enough to share this map of yacht clubs on our lake.
Map of Yacht Clubs on Lake Ontario
SBYC IDEAL 18 FLEET HAULOUT CREW
SBYC is proud to be a member-participant club where our members take it upon themselves to pitch in and do the work it takes to keep the club and it's many facilities and "toys" in shape and operation. Those of us who have done the clubs work have found that, especially for new members, it's a great way to get to know everybody, to develop a feeling of "ownership" of the club, and it's usually fun work besides. This years SBYC Ideal 18 HAULOUT CREW volunteers are exemplary of the club's volunteer spirit, having come out on a beautiful fall day to put the club's small boat fleet "to bed" for the winter. SBYC thanks to (from left to right in the picture below)...
SBYC Ideal 18 fleet Haulout Crew 2011
...Tommy Knapp, John Hayslip, Joel White, Arney and Carolyn Pizer, Alys Klingenberg, Mary and Gary Riggle!  

GO SOUTH with the Wicketts
Follow the perils and pleasures of SBYC members Reen and John Wickett, as they ply the eastern seaboard!

THE STORY OF SODUS BAY YACHT CLUB 
by Rosemary Willette

 After a booming early 1900’s period, The Club experienced a decline into difficult times . At the 1912 annual meeting, a bank balance of $124.00 was reported. By the end of 1913, the Club was $1,505 in debt and by 1914 a second mortgage on the Club was authorized. With a debt of $1475, and a membership of 115, it would appear matters couldn’t get worse. Then came the war. With the onset of World War I, membership and Club usage was down considerably. In August of 1916, the trustees authorized the second mortgage of $2000 be used to pay off the existing debt. Having only 38 members by the end of 1916, it was decided, “unless 50 new members could be obtained by June 1st 1919, the Club would be closed.”

Will the Club be saved?!? CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWER!
BOATS US GROUP MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT
SBYC is a participating group member of BoatUS, which entitles SBYC members to a gropup rate discount on BOAT US dues. See the Member's Only page for the necessary details.

DON'T OWN A BOAT, BUT WANT TO SAIL?

SBYC Ideal 18 POKER RUNSBYC maintains a fleet of Ideal 18 sloop / keelboats for member use in open sailing, fleet racing, and match racing. We run regular Friday night "Fish Fry" races, and this year some of our most enthusiastic Ideal 18 sailors staged a Saturday afternoon "Poker Run"; --see pictures.


These are safe, dry, comfortable, FUN boats, so stable and friendly that some clubs use them for disabled racing events. (See VIDEO below).


Ideal 18s sloops used in women's disabled racing; video.


The primary objectives of the Club are to promote and encourage interests in yachts and yachting, to encourage the  traditions of yachting, to provide and maintain a suitable clubhouse and facilties for the use and recreation of it's members, and to make any and all rules and to do any and other act or thing incidental to or connected with the  foregoing purposes or in advancement thereof. 

 --Article II of the By-Laws of the Sodus Bay Yacht Club


SODUS BAY YACHT CLUB
7431 Irwin Street,
Sodus Point, NY  14555
(315) 483-9550