About the Lake Champlain Yacht Club

LCYC is a member-run yacht club located in a sheltered cove on the southwest shore of Shelburne Bay in Shelburne, Vermont. We offer moorings, activities, and community for our members, most of whom own a sailboat or powerboat.

The object of the Club is to promote and encourage boating and sailing on Lake Champlain, while emphasizing racing, cruising, and education, without financial gain.

Current membership is about 200 individuals and families. We have a nice balance of informal and formal social events. Our fleet is about 175 boats: 70% sail, 30% power. From mid-May thru early October we have club racing every Wednesday evening, plus about a dozen weekend races and regattas. We frequently host regional and national one-design class regattas. We are the home of Etchells Fleet 25. We have a robust junior sailing program that is open to non-member youth. We also have organized and informal cruises and rendezvous on our beautiful Lake Champlain, the sixth largest freshwater lake in the U.S after the Great Lakes.

2010 Race Registration

The Lake Champlain Yacht Club invites you to participate in our saiboat racing program for the 2010 season. Racing is open both to members and non-members of LCYC. We offer weekend and Wednesday evening racing in three fleets: Spinnaker, Jib & Main, and Etchells one-design.

In order to race and be scored, all participants in our racing program must complete and submit to LCYC a 2010 race registration form, and non-members must pay applicable non-member racing fees. In addition, each boat must have a current Lake Champlain PHRF rating, obtained by submitting a Lake Champlain PHRF Form.

Racing is free for LCYC members and members of MBBC, VSC, & RSYC. Guest racers who are not members of any of those clubs may race in weekend PHRF races for free, but must pay a fee of $200 to race in the Wednesday evening series, the Etchells one-design series, or both.

LCYC RULE: All LCYC members who race will be assigned by the Regatta Committee to serve as race committee approximately once every other season. See SI 1.4 in the 2010 LCYC Race Manual for details.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE for the 2010 LCYC racing season.

Click here to view the current registrants for the 2010 LCYC racing season.

Online registration is fast and easy, but you can also register by mail. Download the Race Registration Form, complete it, and mail it in.

2010 Race Committee

All LCYC members who race will be assigned by the Regatta Committee to serve as race committee approximately once every other season. See SI 1.4 in the 2010 LCYC Race Manual for details.

If you are logged in to the website, you can sign-up for Race Committee duty using the RC Sign-Up Available block at the bottom of the right sidebar of this website. Click "more" to see the list of available races.

PRO assignments will be handled directly by the Race Management Group.

2010 Class Splits

There are new spinnaker class splits for the 2010 racing season at LCYC. These 3-class splits are for both Wednesday Night Racing and Weekend Racing.