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The club was originally housed in a small church in Manor Park, overlooking Horseshoe Harbor. [2] The mission stated in its incorporation was "to advance, foster and support the sport of yachting, the art of yacht designing and construction, and the science of seamanship and navigation, and to acquire and provide a suitable and convenient clubhouse, anchorage and harbor basin for the use of ...
Larchmont Harbor is the name of a bay located on the north shore of Long Island Sound, in the village of Larchmont in Westchester County, New York. [1] Larchmont Harbor lies between Long Beach Point and Umbrella Point, and northward of Execution Rocks lighthouse. The harbor is the home of the Larchmont Yacht Club. The depths at the anchorage ...
The Larchmont Shore Club (near the Larchmont Yacht Club) hosts an annual Swim Across America challenge, across Long Island Sound. Larchmont and neighboring Mamaroneck and New Rochelle are noted for their significant French American populace mostly due to the French-American School of New York. [11] Larchmont, Los Angeles is likely named after ...
a light boat that could be easily drysailed and trailered. . . They wanted a fun dinghy-like boat to sail, . . . a fairly flat hull and planned for a jib, not a genoa.” [3] The SONAR class expanded from the Larchmont Yacht Club's Fleet No. 1, and went worldwide. Wally Ross formed a company, Ross Marine, to market the new SONAR class.
He was also a member of New York Yacht Club, the Larchmont Yacht Club—a racer in the Star and Shields sailboat classes—and the St. Malo Bay Nautical Club in France. [ 4 ] Over the last two decades of his life, Villehuchet was renovating and organizing the archives of Le Château de Plouër [ 13 ] in Plouër-sur-Rance , Brittany, which he ...
Ogilvy belonged to the Larchmont Yacht Club for 62 years, and served as its historian. [1] He was the first vice president of the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association, edited its publications for many years, and also served as historian for the class. [3]
Foulk, formerly known as Betty Weed, was born in New York City [1] and learned to sail at Larchmont Yacht Club. [2] [3] She graduated from Rosemary Hall School in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1955 [4] and then attended Wheaton College. [5] In 1967 Foulk won the Syce Cup, the championship for women sailors in Long Island Sound.
In the first race since 2018 Jason Carroll of Larchmont Yacht Club and the crew of the MOD70 trimaran Argo won line honors and established a new overall race record when they completed the 52nd edition Saturday night local time. Argo’s elapsed time of 33 hours, 0 minutes, 9 seconds.