Royal Danish Yacht Club ( da, Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub; shortened KDY) is a Danish yacht club in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

that was established 1866 under the name ''Dansk Forening for Lystsejlads''. It is the oldest yacht club in Denmark, and has been under royal patronage since

Christian IX Christian IX (8 April 181829 January 1906) was King of Denmark from 1863 until his death in 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. A younger son of Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstei ...

's approval in 1891. It has about 2,200 members. The club house has been situated in

Tuborg Havn Tuborg Havn or Port of Tuborg is a marina and surrounding mixed-use neighbourhood in the Hellerup district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Located on a peninsula on the north side of Svanemølle Bay, just north of the border to Copenhagen Municipality, it ...

since 2007.

History

Royal Danish Yacht Club by Julius Aagaard

The Royal Danish Yacht Club was originally based in the Langelinie Pavilion in Copenhagen. The building was destroyed by

schalburgtage Schalburgtage was the popular name for the retaliation which Nazi Germany, Germans and their Denmark, Danish Collaborationism, collaborators carried out as revenge for resistance activity in the last part of the occupation of Denmark between 1944 ...

during

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. The club has later moved to their new purpose-built headquarters in Tuborg Haven.

References

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