Cruising

All club members are welcome to join in the cruises: sailors, long distance cruisers, non-cruising boats, and members by car.

Memorial Day Weekend, May 28 - 29

Watch Hill Yacht Club, May 28 and May 29.
Dinner and cocktails, Sunday, May 29 at 18:00.

Summer Cruise West, June 11 - 23

Long Island Sound to NY Harbor, June 11 - 23

Sunday June 12
Port Jefferson Yacht Club >>, 40 nm from Saybrook Light Formal Start of the Cruise
Call Dockwa for slip/moor reservations
BYO Bar/ Appetizers on patio / Dinner on own

Monday June 13
Oyster Bay >>, 34 nm from Port Jefferson
Visit Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hills or Planting Fields Arboretum
Dinner and moorings at Sagamore Yacht Club >>. Buffet Dinner - $60 pp billed through EYC.
Please do not contact them directly. Click here to add your name to moorings’ master-list >>

Tuesday, June 14
Manhasset Yacht Club >>, 19nm from Oyster Bay
For group dinner at Louie's Restaurant >>
Sign up here to join the EYC table >>

For moorings, call Manhasset Yacht Club >>
For slips call Safe Harbor Capri >>

Wednesday, June 15
Liberty Landing Marina >>, 29 nm, Reserve Slip Early**
Cocktails Planned at Marina

Thursday, June 16
Ossining, 29 nm from New York Harbor
Shattemuc Yacht Club >>
Enjoy Olympic-size pool
BYOB & appetizers
Visit Kykuit, John D. Rockefeller Estate
Contact Dockwa for reservations.

Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18
Poughkeepsie >>, 42 nm from Tarrytown
Shadows Marina >>
Dinner at Culinary Institute of America, Friday Night
French Restaurant, $75 to $85 per person. Transporation TBD
Cab to Visit Hyde Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt Estate, Saturday

Sunday, June 19 and Monday, June 20
Kingston >>, 14 nm from Poughkeepsie
Kingston Marina >> $2/foot
Please do not contact them directly. Click here to add your name to moorings’ master-list >>
Cocktails/picnic on shore
Tour Kingston, first capital of NY
BYOB Cocktails/appetizer on members boat.

Tuesday June 21
Croton-on-Hudson, 45nm from Kingston
No formal group function this evening
Make Half Moon Bay Marina reservations via Dockwa >>
BYOB Cocktails/Appetizers on Dock

Wednesday, June 22
One 15 Marina, Brooklyn >>, 25 nm from Croton-on-Hudson
Cocktails at Estuary Restaurant –Dinner on own

Thursday, June 23
Stamford Yacht Club >>, Shippan Point, 40 nm from NY
Farewell Cocktails and Dinner

Contact: Peter Holland, Cruise Chair >>

Labor Day Weekend Cruise

Saturday and Sunday, September 3 & 4
Mystic Seaport

Contact Dockwa >> asap, there are two other cruises going the same weekend.

Please indicate that you are with EYC. We are holding spaces.
If you are a Mystic Seaport members at the Mariner Level or above, please also state this when registering with Dockwa to receive a discount.

Note that the Seaport is building floating docks where the finger pier once was. This will make the destination much more attractive
They are holding dock-space for twelve Essex boats. Click here >>

Contact: Peter Holland, Cruise Chair >>

Moorings at Other Harbors

The Club maintains moorings for members' use in: Great Salt Pond, Block Island; Sag Harbor and North Haven, N.Y. and in Hamburg Cove, Lyme, Conn. Members may use these moorings on a, first-served basis for up to two nights at a time at no charge. Please review the rules for using these moorings, found in your Yearbook’s Section IIe of the House Rules. Members are requested to exercise reasonable judgment and common courtesy at all times.
Charts showing the locations of these moorings are available from the Launch Office. Directions to the moorings are listed on the Members private page under Member Info >>

Contact: Peter Holland, Cruise Chair >>

LAUNCH

VHF Channel 68 is monitored during
launch hours.