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Canandaigua Yacht Club is a membership sailing club located on Canandaigua Lake in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of New York State. The Club is dedicated to encouragement and facilitation of sailing and sailboat racing, as well as social activities for it's members. The location puts the club in easy reach of the suburbs of Rochester.
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 A CONDENSED HISTORY of CYC On April 17, 1891 the Canandaigua Sailing Club was organized with Peter Leighton as Commodore, Will B. Bridgman as Vice Commodore and Will Freeman as Purser. There were eight members in the initial organization that was to become the Canandaigua Yacht Club. The racing season consisted of five races for the Club trophy which was a silver cup. Three consolation races were then open to all but the winner of the Club trophy. The first clubhouse was constructed in 1893. It consisted of a hut built on a large flat boat that was anchored off the breakwater at the end of city pier. At the annual meeting on May 18, 1898, the Canandaigua Sailing Club officially changed its name to the Canandaigua Yacht Club and J. Edward Dayton became the new club’s first Commodore. When the first race of the season was held on July 7 the following year, ten boats competed making it the largest fleet ever assembled on the lake. |
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Canandaigua Lake is the fourth largest of the Finger Lakes, in the state of New York. It is called the "Chosen Spot" in the Seneca language. The city of Canandaigua is located at the northern shore of the lake and the village of Naples is just a few miles south of the southern end.
Canandaigua Lake is 15 1/2 miles (25 km) long, 1 1/2 miles (2.4 km) wide, and has a shore line of about 36 miles (58 km). Near the northern end is Squaw Island. About fifty percent of the surrounding land is in forest, but most of the remainder is under agriculture. |
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