New Orleans Yacht Club
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Yacht racing
Yacht racing is the sport of competitive yachting.While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motorboat racing; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing; model yachting; and navigational contests Yacht racing...
, marine safety and seamanship. The club is located at West End
West End, New Orleans
West End is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Lakeview District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Lake Pontchartrain to the north, the New Basin Canal and Pontchartrain Boulevard to the east, Robert E. Lee Boulevard to the south and...
's Municipal Harbor on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It is the second-largest inland saltwater body of water in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the largest lake in Louisiana. As an estuary, Pontchartrain is not a true lake.It covers an area of with...
and is a member of the Gulf Yachting Association.
Since its founding, New Orleans Yacht Club has been home to many regional, national and Olympic champions, most recently the 2006 J/30 National Championship, the 2007 Bermuda 1-2 Mini Class Champions and the 2006 Zoo Regatta on the island of Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...
. The club annually hosts or co-hosts over 30 regattas on the lake and is actively involved in many regional and national regattas. New Orleans Yacht Club is the host club for Mardi Gras Race Week.
History
After Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina
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made landfall in New Orleans, the membership of the yacht club
Yacht club
A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to sailing and yachting.-Description:Yacht Clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there are some that have been established at a lake or riverside locations...
worked together under generator power to get the club reopened within sixty days of the storm. New Orleans Yacht Club was the only business operating on the lakefront of New Orleans for three months.
Members were actively involved in rescuing stranded individuals off of rooftops utilizing their boating skills and knowledge of the surrounding neighborhoods. Much of this was documented during this time on the blog
Blog
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Gulfsails
Gulfsails
Gulfsails is the name of a blog, written by Troy Gilbert, that documented the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans following that disaster...
.