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West Vancouver Yacht Club Celebrates 75 Years

By patrick matishak.

While yacht clubs are founded on all things boating, and generally “messing about in boats,” it is the people who make them truly special. In 1945, when six like-minded boaters came together to sign the charter forming the West Vancouver Yacht Club , they did not foresee a 75th Anniversary celebration in the club’s future.

In the preliminary years, the club established a few temporary moorage locations. At best, 12 mooring buoys were located in Pilot Cove. A permanent home base for the club appeared unattainable. Late in 1950, during usual chitchat amongst members moored at a weekend gathering, a significant plan was hatched: a small group of members would form a syndicate and create a permanent mooring facility. In quick succession, discussions took place that lead to a group of 18 members who purchased property at their desired location, West Vancouver’s Fisherman’s Cove. They dredged, piled and supplied floats, which were turned over to West Vancouver Yacht Club’s ownership, management and operation. In return, the syndicate members were offered reduced moorage fees and membership dues.

When the syndicate purchased the first lot in Fisherman’s Cove, a small white cabin on the property became the Clubhouse. Over the course of a few years, additional adjacent properties were acquired, assembling the land and water lots the club enjoys today. A new clubhouse was built in 1963. A Yachting Centre was added in 2002, to serve as the headquarters for the expanding, very active, youth sailing program. To date, the clubhouse has undergone several renovations, with the most recent and significant enhancement completed in 2012. The dock configuration was redesigned in 2013. Subsequently, a redevelopment project eliminated some smaller moorage, accommodating larger and beamier vessels. This redevelopment further supported the club’s environmental stewardship efforts, earning the Georgia Strait Alliance’s Clean Marine BC Five-Anchor Eco-Rating certification.

Over the years, the club developed outstations at Kendrick Island in the Gulf Islands, and Elliot Bay in Howe Sound. Outstations in Telegraph Harbour and Pender Harbour are also very popular cruising destinations for members.

Two annual club signature events are the Southern Straits Yacht Race and the Pumpkin Bowl Regatta. Inaugurated in 1969, the Easter weekend Southern Straits attracts racers from around the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Crews come to compete, make new acquaintances, rekindle old ones and share in the camaraderie of sailboat racing. Celebrating 21 years, Pumpkin Bowl is a junior/intermediate event with a Halloween theme. The regatta has become the premier local dinghy racing event for young sailors, attracting over 200 competitors annually. These events, in addition to a number of races and regattas, including the summer Wednesday Evening Race Series, and the winter Snowflake Races, make for an active and engaged sailing fleet.

Cruisers are not left out of the fun. Frequent cruises and gatherings up and down our beautiful coast have been chronicled over the years in the Foghorn, a monthly WVYC publication.

The West Vancouver Yacht Club has always been a progressive, family friendly club, with active and engaged members cruising, racing, socializing, volunteering and supporting each other. Our success is attributed to retaining these values as times and circumstances have transitioned through 75 years. Looking ahead, we see a bright future, in continuing to build an active and engaged membership of all ages, who share a passion for “messing about in boats”.

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A yacht club is formed by a group of people with a common interest in using boats to get away from land and enjoy cruising local and distant waters, racing for the thrill of personal combat against other sailors and the elements, or just messing about on boats. In the children’s classic “The Wind in the Willows”, it is described thus: “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats…or with boats…in or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter.”

West Vancouver Yacht Club has just such beginnings and aspirations. Formed in 1945, the Club consisted of 45 people with only 6 boats between the lot of them. In 1946 the first Sailpast was held, and Club members and friends have been enjoying this annual event that starts the boating season every year since.

Humble beginnings, started by the dreams of a few, moved on to acquire the foreshore rights in Fisherman’s Cove in 1951 with a small cottage for a clubhouse. By 1963 the clubhouse you see overlooking the moorage was completed and then extensively updated in 2012. Much of the work carried out on Club projects is through members’ volunteering labour and expertise; volunteering is a mainstay of Club participation and camaraderie.

Many accomplishments over the years have contributed immensely to the enjoyment all the members have for “messing about in boats”. The annual Southern Straits Yacht Race brings sailors and boats to the Straits of Georgia to challenge each other in the boisterous spring weather conditions. Outstations have been added at Gambier Island and Kendrick Island and more recently with leased space in Pender Harbour and Telegraph Harbour. The Club sail training program, designed to help youngsters and adults become proficient in the skills of sailing, is now one of the premier such programs available to anyone in the community, not just Club members. To serve this program, the Sailing Center was built in 2002 as a focus for activity and learning in all aspects of small boat sailing.

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Active Members must be 19 years of age. The total Membership Fee is non-refundable.  Applications must include the non-refundable minimum deposit as outlined below. Membership fees can be amortized over four years (see table below). 

* Minimum Membership Deposit -  25% of the Total Membership Fee , or $1,000.00 (whichever is greater), plus 5% GST, calculated on the Total Membership Fee. ** Year 1 - The first 12 months are interest free. *** Years 2 through 4  - – Monthly payment interest is reviewed and adjusted annually in November of each year, and is calculated at TD Bank Rate (TD Prime) +1%. The 2023/24 rate is 8.2%.

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Example 1:
  $3,500.00 (Membership Fee) + $175.00 (5% GST) = $3,675.00 (Total Membership Fee)
  Example 2:
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$2,500.00 = Balance to be Financed over 48 months (4 years)

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$14,625.00 = Balance to be Financed over 48 months (4 years)

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Age of Member	Monthly Dues (excluding 5% GST)
19 to 27 years	$44.35
28 years	$62.15
29 years	$88.75
30 years	$115.35
31 years	$142.00
32 years and older	$177.50

As of July 1, 2022, the entrance fee for an Affiliate Member is $2,000 + GST. Payment for this fee and the tax is to be included with an Affiliate membership application submitted to the Club Office. The monthly dues are $97.85+ GST. Should an Affiliate Member decide to, they can apply to the Board to convert to an Active Membership. This will allow them to use the outstations and start earning seniority to access Club moorage in the future. They will receive a discount on their Entrance Fee of five percent per year of membership to a maximum of 10 years, plus a credit for the original Affiliate entrance fee paid. The Affiliate membership category is currently capped at 30 members and is currently fully subscribed. If you are interested in adding your name to the waiting list for Affiliate Membership, please contact the Club Office [email protected] .

Entrance Fee	$2,000.00 + GST
Monthly Dues	$106.50 + GST

Minimum age 16, maximum age 26. Intermediate Members who are also a full-time student are eligible for a 50% reduction of their regular quarterly dues. At age 27, an Intermediate Member is required to become an Active Member. They will be required to pay the current Membership Fee for 27 years of age, less 5% per year for each year they have been a Member, up to a maximum of 10 years. They will also be entitled to a discount equal to all dues paid since they became a Member. 

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