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The Harlem Yacht Club, currently based on City Island in the New York City borough of The Bronx and incorporated in 1883,〔New York State Corporation and Business Entity Online Database〕 is the third oldest continuously functioning yacht club in the City of New York,〔The Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, 1903-1977.〕 the first being The New York Yacht Club (founded in 1844, and currently active in Manhattan and in Newport, Rhode Island), and followed by the Williamsburgh Yacht Club (founded in 1871 in Brooklyn, and currently still active in College Point, Queens). The club currently has over 100 enrolled members in various membership categories. ==History== HYC was originally one of several boating clubs founded in the 19th century on the banks of the Harlem River in upper Manhattan, where it established its first clubhouse at the foot of 121st Street.〔 〕 〔 〕 Over the next two decades, the club grew and acquired a station at College Point, Queens, where most of its races and regattas took place. In 1894, the club sold the station at College Point while establishing a new one on property it had purchased on City Island, as its membership grew. For the next ten years, the club occupied both locations – a clubhouse in Manhattan and its City Island station on Hunter Avenue. In 1898, the club began building an impressive Victorian-era clubhouse on City Island, which opened in June of the following year. Its opening was heralded by a “salute of seventeen guns ... an illumination (the fleet ), and fireworks ashore and afloat.” 〔New York Times, June 20, 1899, p. 5.〕 In 1903, the club gave up its location in Manhattan, which was taken over by the newly-formed Metropolitan Yacht Club. 〔 〕 HYC has been at its present location on City Island since then. The clubhouse built in 1898 was destroyed by fire on May 29, 1915 and was replaced by the club's current three-story structure that same year. 〔 〕 The destroyed building was valued at $15,000. 〔 〕 Contents lost included the Brooklyn Yacht Club's Deep Sea Challenge Cup. This trophy, presented by Thomas Lipton, had been won by club member J.A. Crowley, in 1913. 〔 〕 Also lost was equipment and records needed to run the annual regatta. The nearby New Rochelle Yacht Club (no longer extant) loaned HYC the required equipment to run the regatta that year. 〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harlem Yacht Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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