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| Founded | 1883 |
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| Location | 100 Sycamore St., Liverpool, New York |
| Website | www |
The Onondaga Yacht Club is a private yacht club located in Liverpool, New York, on the shore of Onondaga Lake. [1] [2]
In 1953, the club was used by the Syracuse U. Sailing team for college competition. [3]
The club is home of Snipe fleet number 18, [4] Lightning fleet number 10, [5] and a Laser fleet. [6]
The Laser is a class of single-handed, one-design sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight. Bruce Kirby designed the Laser in 1970 with an emphasis on simplicity and performance.
San Diego Yacht Club is a yacht club located in San Diego Bay. It is located in Point Loma across from a spit of land known as Shelter Island.
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The Wawasee Yacht Club was formed in 1935 and is located at 6338 E Trusdell Ave. on the northeast shore of Lake Wawasee, Indiana. It currently has 75 families and 35 social members sailing 28-foot E-Scow, 19-foot Lightning, and 13-foot Sunfish class boats in three regattas held from June through early October.
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps.
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Raúl Andrés Ríos de Choudens, is a world class sailor in the Optimist, Snipe, and Lightning classes.
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Clearwater Yacht Club is a yacht club located in Clearwater, Florida. The club belongs to the Florida Council of Yacht Clubs, and the Florida Sailing Association.
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