Atlantic Yacht Club

The Atlantic Yacht Club is a family-oriented sailing club on the shores of Gravesend Bay in south Brooklyn, New York. It was organized in 1866 by a breakaway group from the earlier Brooklyn Yacht Club and within a few years had more members than its parent. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it ranked among the leading yacht clubs of its day, hosting Atlantic Race Week and the Lipton Cup regatta, which drew sailors from around the world in several classes. The club was also a driving force behind the formation of the United States Power Squadrons in 1914. Its clubhouse moved several times, from a barge at Gowanus Bay to 55th Street, then to a well known building at Sea Gate on Coney Island, and today the club sponsors an active junior sailing program.