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 Introduction to Cedar Point Yacht Club Minimize

Lightning course changeLocated in Westport, Connecticut, Cedar Point Yacht Club is a membership of sailors and their families who share a common interest in sailboat racing.  With a 115 year racing tradition and more than 100 days of racing each season, our members' commitment to the sport speaks for itself.

CPYC is a participatory club with racing, social, cruising, and other sailing related activities which appeal to sailors of  different skills, experience, and interests.

CPYC promotes high quality, friendly competition, good sportsmanship and camaraderie among sailors.  In addition to our club racing and junior sailing programs we host an extensive regatta schedule including numerous regional, national and international championship regattas. US Sailing awarded Cedar Point the One Design Club of the Year Award for 2007 and 2002.  In 1998, CPYC was awarded US Sailing's St. Petersberg YC Trophy for excellence in race management. In June 2005, Cedar Point hosted the US Sailing Youth Championships, the premiere Junior Sailing Event with over 150 of the top junior sailors in the United States invited to attend.


    

 The Fleets at Cedar Point Minimize

Cedar Point offers racing programs in a number of different types of boats. Although membership is required to skipper a boat on a regular basis in many of our programs, crewing on members' boats is almost always open to non-members and skippering in some of the programs is open to participation by non-members as noted below. Follow the link for any of the classes of boats below to that fleet's webpage. Information and the email address of the Fleet Captain is available there to find out more about racing at Cedar Point.

  • PHRF Racing: 24' to 44' racer/cruisers racing on Wednesday Nights (no spinnaker), Sundays (both spinnaker and non-spinnaker divisions) and overnight rendezvous on Holiday weekends. Non-member owner/skippers as well as crews are welcome to race.
  • Atlantic: 30' one design keelboats with main, jib and spinnakers and sailed by crew of 3 or 4. Racing on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Non-members are invited to crew.
  • Star: 22' one design keelboats with main and jib sailed by 2 crew. Racing on Saturdays. Extensive local regatta schedule. Non-members are invited to crew.
  • Lightning: 19' one design centerboard boats with main, jib and spinnaker and sailed by crew of 3. Racing on Saturdays. Extensive local regatta schedule. Non-members are invited to crew.
  • Flying Scot: 19' one design centerboard boats with main, jib and spinnaker and sailed by crew of either 2 or 3. Racing on Saturdays. Extensive local regatta schedule. Non-members are invited to crew.
  • Thistle: 17' one design centerboard boats with main, jib and spinnaker and sailed by crew of 3. Racing on Saturdays. Extensive local regatta schedule. Non-members are invited to crew.
  • Vanguard 15: 15' one design centerboard boats with main and jib, sailed by crew of 2. Racing on Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons with multiple, short course race format. Extensive local regatta schedule. Non-members are invited to crew. Fleet boat available for a day or two of guest skippering by members or non-members.
  • Laser:14' one design singlehanded centerboard boat. Hugely popular frostbite racing series on Sundays in fall and spring. Saturdays of three day weekends in summer. Multiple, short course race format. Extensive local regatta schedule. Reduced-rate Winter Membership available. Fleet boat available for a day or two of guest skippering by members or non-members.
  • Junior Sailing: Sailing and race training for 8 to 17 year olds. Boats used are: 8' Optimist Dinghies, 14' Pixels, 14' Lasers and Laser Radials and 14' 420s. Late-June through mid-August. Extensive local junior regatta schedule. Non-members welcome. Charter boats available.
  • High School Sailing:  Race training in both team racing and fleet racing in Club 420s (boats supplied) on weekday afternoons in spring and fall. Extensive local regatta schedule.


These fleets and programs are supported by an outstanding private harbor and drystall facilities, a large fleet of race committee and support boats, and a delightful clubhouse and property with a beautiful view of Long Island Sound and the Saugatuck River.

CPYC welcomes membership inquiries from sailors with an interest in sailboat racing, including those with limited experience.


    

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