Biloxi Yacht Club

Biloxi Yacht Club is a yacht club in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the shores of the Mississippi Sound, and a founding member of both the Gulf Yachting Association and the Mississippi Coast Yachting Association. Its founding was long dated to 1888, but research the club undertook in 2000 showed that it already existed by 1849, on the evidence of New Orleans newspaper reports of an August 8, 1849 race held by the Biloxi Regatta Club, in which Undine of Mobile finished first, Mary Ann second and Biloxi's own Flirt third. The middle of the nineteenth century was the organizing period for Gulf sailing, when a Southern Yacht Club Association formed at Pass Christian in 1849 and built a clubhouse at West End on Lake Pontchartrain.