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Gothic Revival style bargeboard on the New York Yacht Club House (currently in Mystic, Conn., U.S.), by Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846

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New York Yacht Club

American organization

Also known as: NYYC

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America’s Cup race

In America’s Cup
…cup donated it to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 for a perpetual international challenge competition. In 1987 the San Diego Yacht Club took control of the U.S. competition.
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In yacht: Yachting and yacht clubs
Stevens founded the New York Yacht Club aboard his schooner Gimcrack.
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