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St. Petersburg Yacht Club
This article is about yacht club in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The St. Petersburg Yacht Club (SPYC) is a private yacht club located in St. Petersburg, Florida (United States) and a member of the Gulf Yachting Association and the Florida Council of Yacht Clubs.
St. Petersburg Yacht Club
Burgee
Short Avenue, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
St. Petersburg Yacht Club, August 2019
The club won the Adams Cup in 1979.
History
The St. Petersburg Yacht Club was founded in 1909 and the clubhouse was inaugurated on its current site in 1917. One-Design Racing began two years later, when six Fish Class sailboats were acquired. Offshore racing started with the Havana Race in 1930 as the forerunner for the Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC).
Sailors
Ed Baird, Allison Jolly, Mark Mendelblatt and Jennifer French are world class sailors from the SPYC.[citation needed]
