Inland & ICW · Eustis
Racing and sailing club with 60+ days of one-design racing each year on Lake Eustis, among the busiest race calendars in Central Florida. Active MC Scow, Flying Scot, Wayfarer, and Laser fleets. Partners with Lake Eustis Youth Sailing Foundation for adult and junior instruction.
LEYSF Inland Lakes Championship
Youth championship regatta on Lake Eustis, run with the Lake Eustis Youth Sailing Foundation.
Open Flying Scot invitational hosted by the club's resident fleet on Lake Eustis.
MC Scow Southeast Regional Championship
Three-day MC Scow Southeast Regional on Lake Eustis, the opening leg of the class Triple Crown.
Numbered club race weekends roughly every other week through the season, rotating MC Scow, Flying Scot, and Wayfarer safety-boat duty.
Lake Eustis Sailing Club sits on the north shore of Lake Eustis in the Harris Chain of Lakes, and it is one of the most active racing clubs in Central Florida: inland from the coast, but with more than 60 days of one-design racing on the calendar each year. Flat, protected freshwater and a long season make the lake a scow-and-dinghy racer’s home water.
The club’s 1953 roots are, improbably, a powerboat story. It was incorporated that year as the Eustis Marine Club, and sailors were a minority for its first fifteen years. A sailing auxiliary formed in the late 1960s around boatbuilder Dick Hartge’s Lakeshore Drive shop, won its own committee in the 1970 bylaws, launched the Washington’s Birthday Regatta in 1972, and by 1982 the takeover was complete: the club took its current name, and the powerboats were history.
The racing is almost entirely one-design. The club runs active MC Scow, Flying Scot, Wayfarer, and Laser fleets through a schedule of club series and open regattas, and its landlocked setting has made it a regular host for class championships that want reliable inland conditions.
Instruction runs in partnership with the Lake Eustis Youth Sailing Foundation, which delivers both adult learn-to-sail and a junior program, an unusually complete teaching pathway for a club this size, and the reason the fleets stay deep year over year.
Lake Eustis Sailing Club is a private, member-owned club; membership and learn-to-sail sign-ups run through the club and the youth foundation.
Lake Eustis Sailing Club is a private club. Membership is subject to the club's approval. For current membership costs and how to apply, contact the club's membership office.
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Power, sail, and social club organized 1980, on the Indian River Lagoon at Seaway Drive in downtown Fort Pierce. Monthly offshore PHRF races plus spring, fall, and all-ladies regattas; any YCA-club member is welcomed, with transient berths next door at the city marina.
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