Inland & ICW · Cape Canaveral
Space Coast private club founded in 1978 as the Cocoa Beach Yacht Club, on the Banana River. Now operating from a Cape Canaveral clubhouse on the Florida East Coast Deep Water Marina, alongside Port Canaveral itself.
North American Sailing Series stop for the Melges 24 fleet, sailed from the Melges Watersports Center on the Banana River and co-hosted by the centre and Port Canaveral Yacht Club.
Casual weekly club sailboat racing out of Port Canaveral on the Banana River.
For a cruiser, this is the useful club on the Space Coast. It keeps a fifty-slip deep-water dock at Mullet Road in Cape Canaveral and openly welcomes transient boaters: dockage books through Dockwa and Marinas.com rather than requiring a phone call to a membership secretary. Anyone running the ICW or coming down the Atlantic seaboard can stop here, which is a different proposition from the reciprocal-card-only posture of most private Florida clubs.
The club is non-profit and member-owned, and the calendar reflects a working boat club rather than a dining room: cruise-outs, cookouts, weekly dinners, and racing. The Canaveral Cup is the event the racing year is built around.
Note the geography before you plan around it. The club sits alongside Port Canaveral, a working commercial and cruise-ship port, so this is not quiet water. That is the trade for deep water and an ocean inlet within reach of the dock.
Port Canaveral 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.
Featured Private Inland & ICW · Eustis · est. 1953
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.
Private Inland & ICW · Indian Harbour Beach · est. 1907
Founded 1907, one of the older yacht clubs on Florida's east coast. Sits at the mouth of the Banana River adjacent to the Intracoastal; relocated to its current Indian Harbour Beach campus in 1959, with the clubhouse opening in 1961.
Reciprocal Inland & ICW · Fort Pierce · est. 1980
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.