The St. Petersburg Yacht Club is located at 11 Central Avenue on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. Established in 1909 and renovated in 1992, the club has over 2500 members and is known as the "sailing capital of the south". SPYC has a 90 year history of hosting regattas and an international reputation for excellent race management and on-shore activities.
Many members have achieved great fame in sailing. Most notably, Allison Jolly won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics and boatbuilder/America's Cup competitor Charley Morgan is omnipresent in SPYC one-design activities. Ed Baird, who assisted the New Zealand team to victory in the 1995 America's Cup and was the skipper of the Young America/New York Yacht Club Challenge in 1999. Numerous SPYC youth sailors have gone on to become Collegiate All-American athletes. Yacht clubs nation-wide strive annually to win the coveted "St. Petersburg Yacht Club Award of Excellence in Race Management."
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