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noted that, "...in place of the fishing smacks and oyster boats that once anchored in East
Chester Bay is the fleet of the Harlem Yacht Club." In 1903, the club gave up its location in Manhattan, which was taken over by the newly formed Metropolitan Yacht Club. HYC has been at its present location on
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HYC conducted numerous regattas and became known locally for its
Memorial Day Regatta. Conducted on its own initially, this regatta later became part of the YRALIS championship circuit. For over 60 years, this race was considered to be the start of the yacht racing season in western
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Stratford Shoal Race: "Fast time was made by the twenty-six yachts that took part in the annual Stratford Shoal races of the Harlem Yacht Club, which were started from off the Execution Light..." As was common in that era, the race had both power and sail divisions.
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Association (no longer extant), the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound (YRALIS), and the Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association (EBYRA). The latter two are still active today.
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The clubhouse built in 1898 was destroyed by fire on May 29, 1915, and was replaced by the club's current three-story structure that same year. The destroyed building was valued at $ 15,000. Contents lost included the
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clubhouse on City Island, which opened in June of the following year. Its opening was heralded by a "salute of seventeen guns ... an illumination , and fireworks ashore and afloat." By 1901,
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