Bayview Yacht Club

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Bayview Yacht Club is located in Detroit, Michigan. Bayview is famous for hosting the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race as well as a number of other regional and local regattas.

Bayview is a member of the Detroit Regional Yacht-racing Association (DRYA).

BYC Burgee

[edit] History

Bayview Yacht Club was founded in 1915 by four sailors, E. Lloyd Kurtzwarth, P.C. Williamson, Floyd Nixon and Paul Diedrich. In 1915, the club had only one boat, the 18-foot Wrinkle, which P.C. Williamson sailed with the three other founders.

Bayview's first clubhouse was a two-story tin shanty built atop a floored-over boat well at the foot of what was then known as Motor Boat Lane, adjacent to Water Works Park. Bayview moved to its present clubhouse and harbor, at the foot of Clairpointe, in 1929-30.

BYC is known as the Midwest's "Shrine to Nautical Culture"

Home to the following One-Design Fleets:

Cal 25s - Held nationals in 2004; C&C 35-1; J-105; J-120; North American 40; Melges 24; Crescent Sailboat; Express 27; Tartan 10 - Held Nationals in 2007

Formerly home to the very active L boat fleet until the early 70s