Miami / Southeast · Key Biscayne
Founded February 3, 1955 by Key Biscayne residents looking for a friendly, cooperative club centered on Biscayne Bay boating. FCYC member with a small, tight-knit roster relative to the Coconut Grove giants across the bay.
Snipe Pan Am Games Athlete Qualifier
SCIRA USA's Snipe qualifier for the Pan American Games, sailed at Key Biscayne Yacht Club.
The club's annual open regatta on Biscayne Bay for Snipe, PHRF, Etchells, J/24, J/70, Finn, VX One and ILCA fleets, the closing stop of the BBYRA series.
Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association series: monthly PHRF, one-design, Etchells and Finn regattas on Biscayne Bay, hosted in rotation by the five member clubs.
The founding charter set out to “promote boating in all of its branches” and to run “a well-rounded, interesting program of Corinthian marine activities,” 1955 phrasing that has aged better than most, because the club still does roughly that. Adult racing fields an unusually wide spread of classes for a single club: PHRF and ARC handicap fleets alongside Etchells, J/24s, J/70s, Finns, VX Ones, and ILCAs. Few clubs anywhere can put that many distinct one-design starts on the same water, and Biscayne Bay is the reason: flat water, dependable breeze, and enough resident racers to keep every one of those fleets viable.
Round the Island is the club’s own distance race, and the annual regatta anchors the calendar. The club also takes on national-level events when they come up; the Finn Nationals have been sailed here.
Youth sailing starts at six and splits into two tracks: Learn to Sail for beginners, and the Sailing Academy for kids already racing. The top end of that program travels (KBYC teams turn up at regattas well outside Florida), and summer camps feed the whole thing. It runs out of a staffed sailing center open Tuesday through Sunday, which is the practical difference between a club that has a junior program and a club that has a junior operation.
For a club with a roster this small, that is a lot of program. The trade is intimacy for scale: the Coconut Grove clubs across the bay are far larger, and KBYC has stayed deliberately tight.
Key Biscayne Yacht 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. Members of reciprocal yacht clubs can usually arrange visiting access with advance notice.
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Founded 1887 by Commodore Ralph Middleton Munroe, and one of the oldest yacht clubs in the Southeastern United States. Current Coconut Grove clubhouse dates to 1932; an early lessee of the Cape Florida lighthouse from 1888 to 1893.
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