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Coming soon to VYC! Fun festivities, Great band, and variety of German beers. Don’t forget to signup if you haven’t already.
Who`s ready for a Beach Party!? Bar opens at 2pm.
Live Music, Dancing, Raffle, Games, Kids Crafts, and Fun with Friends!
We are restarting our Beach Cleanup Days. This cleanup is in honor of Don Hurley. Don served on the Board of Directors for many years and led the club`s community outreach program. He organized countless beach cleanups and is dearly missed.
To attend this cleanup, meet downstairs at the club around 1:30 on Sunday. We`ll all walk over to the beach after grabbing buckets, gloves and grabbers from the club. Afterwards, there will be free Sunday Munchies in the club.
Mother`s Day is just around the corner...
Those of us fortunate enough to spend time on the ocean get to see some truly beautiful and inspiring things. However, not everything we encounter out there sparks joy. After every Mother`s Day, Valentines Day, and New Years, our members find dozens of balloons floating in the channel or washed up on the beaches of the Channel Islands.
Please consider an alternative to balloons this year.
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Join us for Mother`s Day Brunch!
May the 4th be with you today!
We`ve got our best droid working on the fireplace repairs and it should be up and running again soon. Even without it the clubhouse is still warm and comfortable. Come on down and enjoy your club!
This is the club you are looking for. Memberships are available, give us a call.
We are having an open house this Sunday from 3 to 5.
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Are you a boater? Are you interested in becoming a boater? Are you curious about what it looks like inside the oldest yacht club in the county? Come check us out!
We are a club of "water people". Some of us are sailors, some of us are power boaters, some of us just enjoy a glass of wine with friends on the balcony while watching the sun go down over the ocean. However you enjoy the ocean, there`s a place for you here.
Memberships are available, affordable, and come with a long list of perks and benefits.
DM this account with questions or call the office.
Mother`s Day is less than a month away. Give her a gift that truly keeps on giving with our VYC cookbook. It is packed full with more than 300 pages of delicious recipes from some of our very own VYC members.
And be sure to get her a beautiful VYC history book to read while she`s baking some famous Rival Cookies, or to have on her coffee table while she`s entertaining guests with some Addictive Avocado Dip, Crab Linguini, or some Huckleberry Lemon Drop Martinis.
Opening Day among boat clubs is the annual celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of the boating season. The tradition is believed to have begun in the rich maritime history of the eastern seaboard, where winter snow and ice dictated that vessels be pulled out of water and wrapped in boat houses on land until Spring. In addition to yacht club officers making the circuit to visit nearby yacht clubs, opening day is stacked with events including flags being presented by the Color Guard, dock parties, a Youth Sailing at Ventura Yacht Club racing exhibition, a benediction by the club chaplain, various speeches, presentations, and awards. Additionally, all boats in the yacht club marina are dressed with burgees and flags, adding to the festive atmosphere. The tradition of firing a cannon was believed to be a method to “break up the ice” in colder climate harbors. Since we have no ice, beyond what’s floating in our beverages, the cannoneer still fires the cannon as a celebratory signal to officially begin the boating season. If you’re near Ventura Harbor on Saturday, April 1st, you’ll hear the cannon at approximately 9:25am and again at 9:50am.
Welcome to the Ventura Yacht Club 2023 boating season! #yachtclub#openingday #boating #springtime
VYC members have been invited to attend this fantastic event. Come on out and support these young sailors!
We`ve got memberships available. Come check us out!
Ham Radio Club Meeting Tomorrow!
Did you know that "HAM" was derived from the call sign of three amature radio enthusiasts of the Harvard Radio Club? Albert Hyman, Bob Almy, and Poogie Murray originally called their station "HYMAN-ALMY-MURRAY" but later changed it to "HY-AL-MY" and finally to "HAM" after some confusion with a Mexican ship named "HYALMO".
Looking for a camp for your kids to attend this summer? Tired of sending them to the same boring camps year after year? Check out our summer camp! Our licensed instructors will teach them how to rig, sail, and race their own small boat in a safe and fun environment.
The first Ventura Yacht Club Creative Arts Day was a big success. Who knew we had so many talented members?!?
Founded in 1938, the Ventura Yacht club was instrumental in the building of the Ventura Harbor. Today, we operate a 91 slip marina and offer our membership the lowest slip rates in the Ventura and Channel Islands harbors. We currently have two empty slips ready and waiting for new members, a 30` and a 36`.
DM for more details or to schedule a tour of our facilities.