Vineyard Haven Yacht Club

Just about everything to do with the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club is not what you would imagine when you think of the word “yacht club.” No blue blazers, white trousers, or officer’s caps. Not even a clubhouse for the first twenty years of its existence. Just a crack sailing program that’s fielded three Olympic racers and captured an improbably large net tonnage of regional and national trophies going back more than seventy years – the North American Junior Championship six times between the 1930s and 1950s, for instance. The focus, from its first days on the water in 1928, has been on kids, on teaching them how to sail and race and letting them have fun along the shoreline. Its a wonderful way to grow up. You make lifelong friends.