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The club was founded at Erith, Kent in 1872 and moved to Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex in 1892. Antecedent clubs later absorbed into the Club include the Hammersmith Sailing Club, which changed its name to the London Sailing Club and moved to Burnham in 1897 (having merged with the Junior Thames Yacht Club in 1895), and the Eastern Yacht Club, which was amalgamated with the Royal Corinthian in 1907.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club was founded (as the "Seawanhaka Yacht Club") in September 1871 aboard the sloop Glance, anchored off Centre Island. Glance's captain, William L. Swan, was elected Seawanhaka's first Commodore. Charles E. Willis became the Vice Commodore, Frederic de P. Foster assigned as the first Secretary, Gerard ...
The Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia is a yacht club near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its clubhouse and dock are located at 300 W. 2nd Street in Essington, Pennsylvania. History. The club was established on January 12, 1892, by 13 members of the Quaker City Yacht Club who split off to establish their own
Yale Corinthian Yacht Club is a public sailing facility located on Short Beach in Branford, Connecticut ( United States ), home of the Yale University sailing team. [ 1] It is generally abbreviated as "YCYC" and is affectionately pronounced "yic-yic." Founded in 1881, it is the oldest collegiate sailing club in the world. [ 2]
History 19th century. The first college sailing club to be formed in the United States was the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, established in Branford, Connecticut in 1881, three years before the founding of the Oxford University Yacht Club at the University of Oxford in 1884 followed by the Cambridge University Yacht Club at the University of Cambridge in 1893, the Harvard University Yacht Club ...
Corinthian Yacht Club. Corinthian Yacht Club may refer to: Great Britain. Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch, England. Forth Corinthian Yacht Club, Granton, Edinburgh, Scotland. Established 1880. Motto ‘Affordable sailing for all’. Royal Corinthian Yacht Club of Cowes, Isle of Wight, England (1948-2014)
The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. The international style building was designed by Joseph Emberton in 1931. Burnham-on-Crouch hosts an annual sailing event known as Burnham Week, which takes place in the last week of August. The week includes competitive yacht and dinghy racing on the River Crouch.
The club was founded as Dallas Sailing Club (DSC) in 1928 on White Rock Lake. When White Rock Lake dried up in 1956, the Dallas Sailing Club, together with some members of the Corinthian Sailing Club decided to move to Lewisville Lake under the name Dallas Corinthian Yacht Club .