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West Vancouver Yacht Club

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Whatever your boating passion, whatever your age - it starts at the West Vancouver Yacht Club. Celebrated competition, exceptional cruising, learn to sail education, quality facilities for you and your yacht, fine food and camaraderie.

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West Vancouver Yacht Club Celebrates 75 Years

By patrick matishak.

While yacht clubs are founded on all things boating, and generally “messing about in boats,” it is the people who make them truly special. In 1945, when six like-minded boaters came together to sign the charter forming the West Vancouver Yacht Club , they did not foresee a 75th Anniversary celebration in the club’s future.

In the preliminary years, the club established a few temporary moorage locations. At best, 12 mooring buoys were located in Pilot Cove. A permanent home base for the club appeared unattainable. Late in 1950, during usual chitchat amongst members moored at a weekend gathering, a significant plan was hatched: a small group of members would form a syndicate and create a permanent mooring facility. In quick succession, discussions took place that lead to a group of 18 members who purchased property at their desired location, West Vancouver’s Fisherman’s Cove. They dredged, piled and supplied floats, which were turned over to West Vancouver Yacht Club’s ownership, management and operation. In return, the syndicate members were offered reduced moorage fees and membership dues.

When the syndicate purchased the first lot in Fisherman’s Cove, a small white cabin on the property became the Clubhouse. Over the course of a few years, additional adjacent properties were acquired, assembling the land and water lots the club enjoys today. A new clubhouse was built in 1963. A Yachting Centre was added in 2002, to serve as the headquarters for the expanding, very active, youth sailing program. To date, the clubhouse has undergone several renovations, with the most recent and significant enhancement completed in 2012. The dock configuration was redesigned in 2013. Subsequently, a redevelopment project eliminated some smaller moorage, accommodating larger and beamier vessels. This redevelopment further supported the club’s environmental stewardship efforts, earning the Georgia Strait Alliance’s Clean Marine BC Five-Anchor Eco-Rating certification.

Over the years, the club developed outstations at Kendrick Island in the Gulf Islands, and Elliot Bay in Howe Sound. Outstations in Telegraph Harbour and Pender Harbour are also very popular cruising destinations for members.

Two annual club signature events are the Southern Straits Yacht Race and the Pumpkin Bowl Regatta. Inaugurated in 1969, the Easter weekend Southern Straits attracts racers from around the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Crews come to compete, make new acquaintances, rekindle old ones and share in the camaraderie of sailboat racing. Celebrating 21 years, Pumpkin Bowl is a junior/intermediate event with a Halloween theme. The regatta has become the premier local dinghy racing event for young sailors, attracting over 200 competitors annually. These events, in addition to a number of races and regattas, including the summer Wednesday Evening Race Series, and the winter Snowflake Races, make for an active and engaged sailing fleet.

Cruisers are not left out of the fun. Frequent cruises and gatherings up and down our beautiful coast have been chronicled over the years in the Foghorn, a monthly WVYC publication.

The West Vancouver Yacht Club has always been a progressive, family friendly club, with active and engaged members cruising, racing, socializing, volunteering and supporting each other. Our success is attributed to retaining these values as times and circumstances have transitioned through 75 years. Looking ahead, we see a bright future, in continuing to build an active and engaged membership of all ages, who share a passion for “messing about in boats”.

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Includes: • Orange, Cranberry & Apple Juices • Fresh Fruit Platter • Assorted Muffins & Pastries • Cereals, including Oatmeal • Scrambled Eggs • Bacon & Sausages • Fresh Seasoned Hash Browns • Toast & Jam • Tea & Coffee

Four Hot & Four Cold | $36 per person Three Hot & Three Cold | $32 per person Two Hot & Two Cold | $28 per person Choose from our delicious selection of hot and cold appetizers. Cold Appetizers • Sweets Platter • Shrimp Crostini • Caprese Salad Skewers • Prawns with Mango Basil Dip • Crab and Cucumber Canapes • Samurai Sushi Tray (Assorted) • Seasonal Fruit & Cheese Platter • Avocado Basil and Tomato Crostini • Greek Dipping Platter with Hummus, Tzatziki, & Dolmades • Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Wrapped Asparagus Spears Hot Appetizers • Fresh Roast Beef and Brie • Wild Mushroom Brie Melt • Scallops Wrapped in Bacon • Lemongrass Chicken Skewer • Panko Breaded Prawns with Sweet Chili Dip • Mediterranean Lamb Kebabs with Spiced Tzatziki • Fresh Mini Crab Cakes Drizzled with Chipotle Sauce • Crispy Vegetarian Spring Rolls with Teriyaki Ginger Dip • Roasted Squash Cranberry and Cheddar Wonton Cups

Salads • Mixed Green Salad, Greek Salad, • Grilled & Marinated Vegetable Platter Mains • Golden Coconut Curry Chicken Breast with sauteed Fuji Apples • Salmon Fillet with Lemon Dill Sauce • Seasonal Vegetables & Rice Pilaf • Also includes an assortment of fresh breads and appropriate condiments and sauces Dessert Table • Seasonal Fresh Fruit • International Cheese Sation • An Assortment of Cakes, Petite Fours and Cheesecakes Tea & Coffee

Salads - Your choice of three of the following: • Caesar Salad, Mixed Green Salad, Greek Salad, Quinoa Salad • Grilled & Marinated Vegetable Platter Carving Station • Roasted Baron of Beef Your choice of three of the following: • Golden Coconut Curry Chicken Breast with sauteed Fuji Apples • Salmon Fillet with Lemon Dill Sauce • Spinach and Cheese Cannelloni • Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted Potatoes and Rice • Also includes an assortment of fresh breads and appropriate condiments and sauces Dessert Table • Seasonal Fresh Fruit • An Assortment of Cakes, Petite Fours and Cheesecakes Coffee/Tea

Salad Bar • Caesar Salad, Mixed Green Salad, Greek Salad, Tabouli, • Grilled and Marinated Vegetable Platter Carving Station • Roasted Baron of Beef Au Jus Your choice of two of the following: • Golden Coconut Curry Chicken Breast with Sautéed Fuji Apples • Salmon Fillet with Lemon Dill Sauce • Vegetable Ravioli with your Choice of Sauce • Fire Roasted Cod Fillet with Fruit Salsa • Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted or Mashed Potatoes and Rice Pilaf • Also includes an assortment of fresh breads and appropriate condiments and sauces Dessert Table • Seasonal Fresh Fruit • International Cheese Selection • An Assortment of Petite Fours and Bite Size Cheesecakes Tea & Coffee

Salad Bar • Caesar Salad, Mixed Green Salad, Greek Salad, Tomato Bocconcini Salad, Quinoa Salad, • Grilled & Marinated Vegetable Platter Seafood Platter • Prawns, Candied & Smoked Salmon, • Pesto and Curried Mussels on the half Shell Carving Station • Roasted Prime Rib of Beef Your choice of three of the following: • Chicken Breast with Portobello Mushroom Chardonnay Cream Sauce • Salmon Fillet with Caper Parsley Garlic Butter Sauce • Sole Fillet Stuffed with Crab and Shrimp Topped with Béarnaise • Vegetable Ravioli in you choice of Sauce • Roasted Stuffed Pork Loin with Apple Jus • Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted or Mashed Potatoes and Rice • Also includes an assortment of fresh breads and appropriate condiments and sauces Dessert Table • Seasonal Fresh Fruit • International Cheese Selection • An Assortment of Cakes, Petite Fours and Cheesecakes Tea & Coffee

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With its covered drive-through entry, the recently renovated Clubhouse, radiates distinctive west coast architecture, with a vaulted ceiling entrance and central lounge area. This setting, complimented with a full service bar and full service commercial kitchen, is a warm and versatile location suitable your special event. Overlooking beautiful Fisherman’s Cove, the Clubhouse with its fully glazed front vista is tastefully adorned with the works of local artists. The large main lounge is complimented with a fully covered exterior deck.

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The Yachting Centre is a 2 storey multi-use building located 40 meters from The Clubhouse. The building’s waterfront setting, vaulted ceiling and large outdoor patio make it an ideal building for a wedding, chapel, private VIP or family lounge, temporary office or for intimate events of up to 40 guests. It also houses modern change and shower facilities located at ground level.

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• Max Number of People for an Event: 120

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Martin Wale

604-921-7575

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5854 Marine Drive,West Vancouver,BC, V7W 2S2,Canada

Business name : West Vancouver Yacht Club

A yacht club is formed by a group of people with a common interest in using boats to get away from land and enjoy cruising local and distant waters, racing for the thrill of personal combat against other sailors and the elements, or just messing about on boats. In the children’s classic “The Wind in the Willows”, it is described thus: “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats…or with boats…in or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter.”

West Vancouver Yacht Club has just such beginnings and aspirations. Formed in 1945, the Club consisted of 45 people with only 6 boats between the lot of them. In 1946 the first Sailpast was held, and Club members and friends have been enjoying this annual event that starts the boating season every year since.

Humble beginnings, started by the dreams of a few, moved on to acquire the foreshore rights in Fisherman’s Cove in 1951 with a small cottage for a clubhouse. By 1963 the clubhouse you see overlooking the moorage was completed and then extensively updated in 2012. Much of the work carried out on Club projects is through members’ volunteering labour and expertise; volunteering is a mainstay of Club participation and camaraderie.

Many accomplishments over the years have contributed immensely to the enjoyment all the members have for “messing about in boats”. The annual Southern Straits Yacht Race brings sailors and boats to the Straits of Georgia to challenge each other in the boisterous spring weather conditions. Outstations have been added at Gambier Island and Kendrick Island and more recently with leased space in Pender Harbour and Telegraph Harbour. The Club sail training program, designed to help youngsters and adults become proficient in the skills of sailing, is now one of the premier such programs available to anyone in the community, not just Club members. To serve this program, the Sailing Center was built in 2002 as a focus for activity and learning in all aspects of small boat sailing.

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We always thought the boating and sailing community needed a better events calendar to help the public know about the extraordinary number and variety of on-the-water and nautical events in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Victoria, and all the boaty harbors in between. This calendar is our solution, and we hope you find it fills that need. From sailboat races to swap meets, rendezvous to rallies, seminars to seafood fests, we look forward to seeing you out there!

Due to COVID-19, some events may have been cancelled or postponed. Please double check with event organizers before attending.

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Howe sound regatta (varc), melges 24 canadian national championship, october 2024, pumpkin regatta — optis, pumpkin regatta — ilca and doublehanded, november 2024, snowflake 1, snowflake 2, december 2024, snowflake 3, snowflake 4.

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Boat2Go - the Club's Boat Sharing Program

An alternative option for getting out on the water.

Keen to boat, but don't want the cost of buying, mooring, and insuring your own boat? Not interested in the hassle of on-going maintenance?   If you don't own a boat (or the right boat for the activity you wish to do), the Club has excellent options for you (and your guests) to get out on the water. This includes kayaks and stand-up paddle boards (SUPs) for local waters, a fleet of J22 keel boats for day-sailing, two 17' Montauk Boston Whalers, and a sailing yacht for cruising (currently being sourced). We have great options to access the ocean. Get out on the water and enjoy the beautiful BC coast! 

How to participate and book:

• Kayaks and SUPs Accessible for all Members - no qualifications required. The Club's fleet of kayaks and SUPs can be booked using a simple online system.
• J22 keel boats  Accessible to Active, Associate, Honorary Life, Senior, Intermediate, Non-Resident and Junior Members - boating qualifications and assessments are required. Once eligible Members are approved for the program, they will be given access to the online booking system.
• Montauk Boston Whalers Accessible to Active, Associate, Honorary Life, Senior, Intermediate, and Non-Resident Members - boating qualifications, radio operator certification and a one time competency assessment are required.  Once eligible Members are approved for the program, they will be given access to the online booking system.
• Boat2Go - Sail Cruising Yacht Currently a suitable vessel is being sought to provide this service.  Once available the yacht will be accessible to Active, Associate, Honorary Life, Senior, Intermediate, and Non-Resident Members.  Yearly registration is required along with minimum sailing qualifications, radio operator certification and a competency assessment.  Once eligible Members are approved for the program, they will be given access to the online booking system.  The Boat2Go sailing vessel is available for daily, weekend and weekly excursions in line with the program limitations.

For more information on how Members can participate, click on the Boat Sharing Programs button below.

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