Lauderdale Yacht Club is a private

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located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (

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). The club belongs to the

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History

LYC was established in June 1938.

Racing

LYC is one of the six founding members of the Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC), being the

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, Miami Yacht Club, Coral Reef Yacht Club,

Biscayne Bay Yacht Club The Biscayne Bay Yacht Club is a private yacht club located in Coconut Grove, Miami (United States). Founded in 1887 by Commodore Ralph Middleton Munroe, the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club is one of the oldest yacht clubs in Florida. BBYC is one of the 5 ...

and

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the other five. The SORC was founded in 1965 to expand offshore racing after the

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had been created in 1940 with the 184-mile Miami-Nassau Race, the 284-mile St. Petersburg-Havana Race, the 30-mile triangular Lipton Cup Race off Miami Beach, and a 90-mile Havana to Key West Regatta. LYC and SORC runs five Regattas today, together with the Storm Trysail Club, the Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race. LYC hosts annually the ''Ron Payne Memorial Regatta'' in the Snipe class after renaming the annual former Snipe Ocean Regatta in 2004 to honor active member of the Snipe Class and the Lauderdale Yacht Club Ronald Bruce Payne.

Sailors

Anna Tunnicliffe Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias (born October 17, 1982) is an American sailor and CrossFit competitor. In 2008 she won an Olympic gold medal in the Laser Radial single handed sailing class. In 2009 and 2011, she won the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Laser ...

Annie Haeger Anne Haeger (born February 5, 1990) is an American sailor who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and joined the Canada SailGP Team as a Strategist in September 2023. Life Haeger was born in East Troy, Wisconsin in 1990. She started sailing w ...

Briana Provancha Briana Provancha (born April 25, 1989) is an American sailor who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Life Provancha was born in San Diego in 1989. At the age of eight she had begun sailing. She attended Point Loma High School and by the age ...

, Steve Benjamin,

Peter Commette Peter Michael Commette (born March 13, 1954) is an American sailor who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He raced Finn and finished in 11th place. He also was champion and 1st in 1974 in the first Laser World Championships; 2nd in 470 Worl ...

and Max Agnese are LYC members.

References

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External links

Official website
1938 establishments in Florida Sailing clubs in Florida