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The Detroit Yacht Club (DYC) is a private yacht club in Detroit, Michigan, located on its own island off of Belle Isle in the Detroit River between the MacArthur Bridge and the DTE generating plant. The DYC clubhouse is a restored 1920s Mediterranean-style villa that is the largest yacht club clubhouse in the United States .
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Bayview Yacht Club is home to a number of competitive one-design fleets around the DRYA, including: Benetau 36.7 Held Nationals in 2015; Cal 25 Held Nationals in 2004; C&C 35; J-120; North American 40; Melges 24; Crescent Sailboat; Express 27; Tartan 10 Held Nationals in 2007; Ultimate 20s; Formerly home to the very active L boat fleet until ...
To be trapped on the island was tantamount to disgrace and social ostracism. All club dances ended promptly at 11:30. Long after the present bridge opened in 1923, dances at the Boat Club and Detroit Yacht Club continued to end at 11:30. In 1992 rent on the Detroit Boat Club property jumped from $1 to $100,000.
The Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (GPYC) is a private yacht club located on the shore of Lake St. Clair in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan. [1] The club is a member of the Detroit Regional Yacht-racing Association (DRYA). [citation needed] The clubhouse is prominently visible and a well-known landmark along the shoreline of the lake north of Detroit.
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The first race held on the Detroit River was the Gold Cup, in 1916. The community-owned Miss Detroit won the Gold Cup in 1915 on Manhasset Bay, outside of New York City, and earned the right to defend it the following year on home waters. Miss Detroit was a single-step hydroplane, equipped with a 250-horsepower Sterling engine.
A yacht broker is a specialist who serves yacht or boat sellers and/or buyers as a representative for the sale or purchase of a yacht or boat. The yacht broker is paid an agreed commission by the seller to market the yacht for sale, field interest and inquiries from buyers, handle negotiations, attend inspection and water trial and ultimately, if successful, to attend delivery.