The Pointe-Claire Yacht Club is a yacht club in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. It is on the shore of Lac Saint-Louis, a widening of the St. Lawrence River on the southern shore of the Island of Montreal. The club promotes racing and hosts regattas run by the provincial organization, Voile Québec.
 Pointe-Claire Yacht Club, 1930s | |
| Abbreviation | PCYC |
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| Formation | 1879 |
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Official language | English, French |
Commodore | Jean-Luc Taschereau |
| Website | www.pcyc.qc.ca |
The club has slips for about 150 boats and dry dock for dozens of others.[1] A municipal lightning detector and alarm is nearby.[2]
Racing programs use Lasers, Optimists, and 420s.[3]
With the motto "sailing is freedom", the Association Québecoise de voile adaptée operates a sailing program for people with mobility impairments, hosted at the PCYC site.[4]
The PCYC has reciprocal arrangements with about 50 other clubs.[5]
History edit
The club is sited on a former railway pier used to load limestone blocks from a nearby quarry in the Village of Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire, as it was then known.[6] The blocks were loaded onto barges to be floated downriver to the construction site of the Victoria Bridge.[7]
After the bridge was completed, the Pointe-Claire Boating Club formed in 1879 on the pier, leased from the Grand Trunk Railway.[6] The clubhouse built that year is still in use as the clubhouse today. Facilities expanded quickly, and in 1889 made space for the newly-formed St. Lawrence Yacht Club, until they moved to their own site in Dorval.[8]
In 1920 the railway sold the pier and surrounding land to the club.[6] Unlike yacht clubs in Beaconsfield and Baie d'Urfé, which are on municipal land, the site is owned by the PCYC and pays municipal taxes.[9] The club focused on paddling until 1924 when it incorporated as the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club.[6]
A club-sponsored Sea Scout group was based at PCYC from 1930 to 1942, when it moved to its own site at what is now the Baie-de-Valois Nautical Centre Sailing Base.[6]
From the 1930s to the 1950s the club had its own one-design class, a 19-footer with a Bermuda rig.[6]
The breakwater and jetties were added in 1964.[6]
Club members have included international sailing race officials and members of the Canadian national sailing team.[10]
References edit
- ^ "Visitors". PCYC. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
- ^ "Lightning detector installed in Pointe-Claire Village park". montrealgazette. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ "About Us". PCYC. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
- ^ "Association Québecois de voile adaptée". West Island Community Resource Center. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
- ^ "Reciprocal Clubs". PCYC. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
- ^ a b c d e f g Martin, Helen (1979). 1879-1979 Pointe Claire Yacht Club Centennial. Pointe-Claire, Quebec: PCYC.
- ^ "Club History". PCYC. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ Matthews, Brian (1985). A History of Pointe-Claire. Pointe-Claire, Quebec: Brianor Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0-9692329-0-X.
- ^ "West Island yacht clubs: Who owns them?". montrealgazette. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ "2019 Fireball Worlds awarded to Pointe Claire Yacht Club in Quebec". www.yachtsandyachting.com. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
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