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nyc yacht club model room... anyone seen it?

I’ve been there and it’s certainly worth a visit! Every year in October the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers holds its annual convention. In conjunction with this, the Naval Architecture Department of the University of Michigan has a dinner for its alumni. One year Michigan’s dinner was held at the New York Yacht Club with the Cocktail Hour in the model room. We had some customers near NYC so I scheduled some sales calls with them and attended the alumni dinner at the Yacht Club. As might be expected the models are limited to yachts; no Victories or Constitutions. There is an entire wall of half models with rigged models in cases on the floor. Of course many of the models are of boats owned by members so are well over 100 years old.

A more accessible venue for those interested in yachts is the Herreshoff museum in Bristol RI, not too far from NYC (by Minnesota standards). This includes the America’s Cup Hall of Fame with a very nice collection of America’s Cup yachts. I haven’t been there since they began racing the ugly, by my opinion, hydrofoils.

Roger
 
Found this on the site:

New York Yacht Club Public Tours​

The New York Yacht Club offers tours of the Model Room at the New York City club house and the exterior grounds of Harbour Court in Newport, RI are open to the public on the last Tuesday of each month, with the exception of August and December in New York, and January, August and December at Harbour Court. Advanced registration is required. For a virtual tour of either clubhouse, click to watch our videos below.

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Public Tours

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On this page you can find alos two interesting videos with history and virtual tour - very interesting

Another video about the 44th Street Clubhouse

 
NYYC is a MUST SEE for our schooner and yacht building members if they visit Manhattan. I was there years ago when cameras were not allowed but I have no idea if that is still the case. They did allow me to make all the sketches I wanted and left me alone for a couple hours.
Allan
 
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