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Long Island Yacht Club

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307 Little E Neck Rd S

Babylon, NY 11702

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The Long Island Yacht Club was established as a Yacht Club in 1958 and is still operating as a private Club today. Located just South of Montauk Highway on Little East Neck Rd in the Town of Babylon, the Yacht Club offers waterfront access and beautiful views of the Great South Bay. Privately owned and operating the Long Island Yacht Club is open for membership that spans Memorial Day through Labor throughout the summer and with full access to the Club amenities. Amenities include the Club house, a 73 slip marina, two full size tennis courts, an Olympic size pool, tiki-bar, snack shack, sand beach, basketball court, and more with Membership engagement events hosted weekly. …

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Was there for a party. Beautiful atmosphere. Food is excellent service even better. Planning on having my next event there

This is the destination!!!! By Land or Sea! Regarding the spending comment from below, tell me where on Long Island can you go out to dinner where you spend less than 100 in one night. Getting chinese food delivered home is about 50. The spending chit is 120 per month! Add this with breathtaking views and ample free parking. This place takes the cake. The food, atmosphere are divine as well as you are welcomed by a bunch of hard working fellow Islanders' as members with one common interest FUN. This place will make you marvel at the 6.5 Rolling acres of tennis courts, swimming pool, tiki bar, 65 slip Marina. This is the Gem of the south shore! Chef Dana and the staff is nothing less than amazing as well. Bravo LIYC Bravo!

I'm a current member as of 2014.. Very family friendly.. Great pool.. Stunning location.. Very relaxed feel.. But here lies the problem.. Food service is the issue!! With a $120 monthly minimum food and beverage, it's hard to stomach the poor service from the servers and the kitchen.. Slow slow slow service time and time again.. Tonight dinner was an embarrassment. For the 4rd straight time service took well over an hour and the food was all raw not under cooked but raw and cold.. One dinner took 1.45 and when the food did come out my guest's order was missing.. It showed up 30 min after my guests walked out! I can never bring a guest here.. My wife is embarrassed and doesn't want to return.. The GM is trying to correct the issues but I'm not seeing the results yet! At current I'm not returning next year!

Came here post-Mayor's Cup sailboat race on Saturday. They had live music, a semi-open bar, and free hotdogs. The actual building is very pretty, and the grounds nicely kept. I am not a member of the Yacht Club, but do attend the awards ceremony for the Mayors Cup every year. Everyone is always extremely friendly, and it's always a great time.

My husband and I recently hosted our wedding celebration at the Long Island Yacht Club and we are so happy with our experience with the venue, the food, and the service! We are not members of the club (we live in California) but by a stroke of good fortune, we stopped by after last Labor Day and met Diane, the events coordinator. We learned that non-members could host events there during the off-season (and boy, is a January wedding off-season!). We loved the recently repainted and remodeled gathering space, which has two fireplaces, a separate bar area, as well as large round dining tables and couches. There are tons of windows, so the space was bright and well-lit (which is better than a lot of banquet spaces we looked at in the area). We felt like we were hosting our family in our home - Diane did a fantastic job creating a comfortable, welcoming environment. Chef Matt prepared a great buffet (we had a lot of options to choose from), amazing appetizers and dessert. With the help of a local florist, we added some small decor, we brought our own sheet cake, and that was really all the coordinating we had to do. They have the ability to display a slideshow and play a Spotify playlist, so we showed pics from our wedding in California. All in all, we're so happy we met Diane and were able to host exactly the kind of classy party we wanted.

Love this place. I have eaten dinner here a number of times with both family and friends. The facilities and grounds have undergone a major change under the new ownership. Please don't confuse this with older posts that speak to a minimum spend per month imposed upon members. That is not the case. As far as the dining goes I had the best duck I have ever eaten in my life and I've had it in quite a few places. The crab cakes were amazing and the short ribs were to die for. This is a terrific place and anyone living in Babylon Village should explore a membership as the LIYC is truly a gem.

What a shame! Shame on this so called Yacht club! It was so evident that this so called friendly yacht club has its biased KKK officers running the show. Executive Committee Commodore, John Sparagano Vice Commodore, Steve Vid Rear Commodore, Ken Jacobs Secretary,Jeanette Marino Treasurer, Brian Richmond The club is not filled with relatively few boats but that is because of the small minds running the place. My fiance requested info and was invited to an open house. They bought him drinks, food, showed him the place and welcomed him with open arms. When I came along with him and the so called application which was told to him to be a mere formality not to worry you are part of our family! You guessed it I come with him and all of a sudden they have to vote to see if he is a good match for the club I AM BLACK! The boat is in my name, I am a professional and my fiance is out of work and a little down on his luck that is why we were going to join the club........well not now! This is a clear case of bias and should not be tolerated I wonder if the Reverend Al Sharpton owns a boat?

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Long Island Yacht Club

307 Little East Neck Road South Babylon, NY 11702 Phone: (631) 669-3270/ (631) 669-0129 Visit Website

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L.I. Yacht Club’s new owners wind down a successful summer in Babylon

The new owners of the  Long Island Yacht Club have just wrapped up a Labor Day weekend that featured live music Friday night, dinner and dancing Saturday and a pig roast and kids’ carnival on Sunday. Labor Day brunch followed.

The marina is now filled to capacity, with 11 on the waiting list.

It’s a far cry from when the historic Yacht Club reopened for the first time under new ownership for Memorial Day of 2016, just days after Rick Stettner and business partner Ned Hurley acquired the club on May 17.

In the run-up to that weekend, the big priority was the food. That, and making sure the lawn was cut at 307 Little East Neck Road South.

“The first thing we did was hire a chef and then the chef didn’t show up for Memorial Day, so we had to cook,” Hurley said. “We had a big barbecue, 200 people showed up and Rick and myself had to grill.”

“All while Eric was mowing the lawn,” added Stettner, speaking of his son Eric Stettner, now the Yacht Club’s general manager.

The Long Island Yacht Club was founded in 1958 and counts former longtime Babylon Village resident Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) among its charter members. Before that, the mansion, which reportedly dates to 1911, served as a private residence.

Stettner and Hurley acquired the nearly seven-acre property and its mansion, which had shut down in December 2015, from the nonprofit club for about $2 million.

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One of the first things the new owners did — aside from trimming the grass — was blow up the old model of what it means to belong to a yacht club.

p class=”p1″> “You don’t need a yacht to join,” said Eric Stettner, a 2016 University of Connecticut graduate. “We have about 80 members without boats.”

“But if you want to sail you have access to sailing,” added Hurley.

They also scrapped the $10,000 annual membership in favor of $1,500, and only operate the club full time between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Members get access to the club, pool, tennis courts, sailing, swimming and tennis programs and daily camp activities for kids , as well as steep discounts on docking rights.

“It’s not about how much money you make; it’s about friendship,” said Hurley. “ As you get older, sometimes it can be hard to make friends. This is another outlet for people and families to meet other people and hang out without breaking the bank.”

Unlike most yacht clubs, there are no minimums on what people have to spend on drinks or dining, either.

“We do not enforce food or beverage minimums, which is out of the club tradition,” said Rick Stettner. “We wanted to build this on our reputation, and that’s why we have the great chef [Noah Weber] that we have here.”

In its first summer, in 2016, the club finished the season with 62 members. Now there’s 142 members.  The goal is to get 300 members signed up, then start up the waiting list. (A household constitutes a member.) There are no residency restrictions.

On the offseason, the club will be available for weddings and other private parties for non-members. And they will be hosting their own events. Some events will be opened to the public and serve as membership drives.

The first such event will be an Oktoberfest party this fall.

“We have the most beautiful wedding venue; seven acres right on the the Great South Bay,” said Hurley. “We can seat 150 people inside and another 400 outside.”

Stettner, who lives in Oakdale, and Hurley, of New York City, have owned and operated Maple Avenue Marina together for some 17 years in Bay Shore.

When they learned of the Yacht Club’s financial troubles in 2015, they jumped.

“We read in Newsday they were having financial problems and called” Commodore Steve Vid, said Hurley.

But Vid told them to get to the back of the list of 40 others who were interested in buying the club and bulldozing it for waterfront townhouses.

“Then I said we’re not interested in that,” said Hurley. “We wanted to keep the club operating.”

Suddenly they were No. 1 on the list; the club’s leaders wanted it to keep operating as a yacht club.

Babylon Village Mayor Ralph Scordino also feared the property would fall to developers.

“My biggest concern was the idea of losing this amenity that we have in the village for development, for housing,” he said. “I was hoping that someone would take it over” and revitalize the facility with the idea of attracting younger families.

“And that’s what these people did and they have done a great job,” he said. “It  just has that different atmosphere. You can go down there and have a cocktail, then have a great dinner and with that scenic view overlooking the Great South Bay it’s just a great place to be.”

A tentative deal between the club and Stettner and Hurley reached in the fall but it took those next months to finalize and organize a vote of the board for approval.

Then the renovations began. The main building’s ballroom and bar and lounge areas have been completely redone, along with all-new HVAC systems. The property has been cleaned up outside. the sailing program was resurrected, as well as all the kids’ programs.

The club now has a swim team, sailing team and tennis team. They even  hosted a successful regatta this summer.

“We recognized early on that this was a tremendous asset to the community, as opposed to it going to development,” said Rick Stettner. “With over 30 years combined in the recreational marina business, we knew it would have been a sin to let this property go to 16 or 18 individuals.

“We wanted it to be accessible to 300, 400 people with access to the Great South Bay and all that comes with it.”

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The foundation of the Babylon Yacht Club is anchored in the tradition, competition and camaraderie that is involved in sailing on the Great South Bay. Times and tides are constantly changing, but one thing remains true: our commitment to the history of Long Island sailing and the community that has been built around it.

Each year, the BYC hosts a variety of races for both one-design and cruising auxiliary classes. In addition to our Annual 4th of July Regatta, we hold three other invitationals, the members-only, “best 4 out of 6” Corinthian Series and the annual Commodore’s Cup. Our skippers also take part in several special events through our membership in the Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association (GSBYRA) and our relationship with the South Bay Cruising Club (SBCC).

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Cold weather may signal the end of the regular sailing season for most, but it also indicates the start of another season, Frostbiting. This dedicated group of skippers and crew push the sailing season to sometimes unreasonable limits. The Frostbite fleet starts it’s season each year the day after Thanksgiving. They schedule 10-12 days of racing through the winter months until the end of March.

Interested in joining this hearty group of Flying Scot enthusiasts? Contact the Frostbiting Committee Chairmen below.

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• Joe Mulle – Chair
• John Schroeder – Co-Chair
• Larry Schaefer
• Daisy Holzmacher
• Hugh Larkin
• Maria Parascandola
• Doug Crocker
• Email address for contacting Frostbite  [email protected]

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LI Yacht Club, Babylon Village mainstay, reopens after struggles

The pool at the Long Island Yacht Club in Babylon, seen on July 13, 2017. Credit: Johnny Milano

The Long Island Yacht Club, a longtime Babylon Village institution forced to close in 2015 because of funding problems, has reopened under new owners.

Business partners Ned Hurley and Rick Stettner in June purchased the 6.5-acre property on Little East Neck Road that looks out on the Great South Bay — rescuing it from insolvency.

“It was a dormant animal floating toward the finish line of bankruptcy,” Hurley said of the club, which includes tennis courts, boat slips and a restaurant in a Georgian mansion dating to 1911.

Hurley, 54, of Manhattan, and Stettner, 58, of Oakdale, paid about $2 million to buy the club and settle its debts, which included hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes, Hurley said. Before purchasing the facility, the pair entered an operating agreement with the club’s Board of Governors in May 2016 and reopened for the 2016 summer season.

“We want it to be a mainstay of the community,” Hurley said.

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Established in 1958, the club was once a fixture of the Babylon Village social circuit, with about 160 full members in the 1960s who commandeered an impressive fleet of sailing and power boats, Newsday has previously reported. More recently, declining membership, storm damage and mounting debt forced the club to close in December 2015, at which point fewer than 20 members remained, Hurley said.

He and Stettner were among many who contacted the board to express interest in purchasing the property, they said. But unlike others who had their eyes on subdividing the parcel for residential development, the business partners wanted to reopen it as a club.

Their operating agreement stipulates maintaining the facility as the yacht club for at least four years, although they said they intend to keep it that way.

“I think the club is a fantastic asset for the village,” Babylon Village Mayor Ralph Scordino said. The new owners “really got it together.”

The club now has 128 members, General Manager Eric Stettner said. While there are no restrictions on where they can live, many are young families from Babylon Village, he said.

Key to attracting them — and making the club financially viable — was dropping membership dues to $1,500 annually from $10,000, and paring back from a year-round to a summer-only schedule, Hurley said.

Except for a few events, the club is primarily open from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

The renovations that the new owners have carried out — repainting, installing new ceilings and lighting, upgrading the heating and plumbing — also enticed newcomers.

Tyrone Clinton, 70, of Wantagh, joined the club with his wife this year.

“They did it all, plus more,” Clinton said while treading water in the club’s pool on a recent afternoon. “I saw the potential.”

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For Long Island anglers looking to score with a variety of tasty and combative fish while fishing in relatively tranquil waters close to home, Fire Island Inlet serves as one of the better starting points. From spring stripers, blues and weakfish to summer fluke, sea bass, porgy and triggerfish – plus all the fall run mayhem you can handle – it offers something for everyone from families and novice fishermen to sharp and experienced skippers.

“That’s just one of the things I love about being a Freedom Boat Club member,” says Kevin Garbe, a sales manager from Lindenhurst, NY who uses Freedom’s Babylon location at the Long Island Yacht Club as his fishing and boating home base. “There’s just so many options in this area. From our Babylon location it’s only 15 minutes to the inlet and from there you can head just about anywhere to go fishing. Inside Great South Bay, I love the stretch from Fire Island Lighthouse to the Coast Guard Station. At the inlet itself you have tremendous structure in the form of Robert Moses Bridge, so you always have options.”

Options indeed. The spring season here sees great fishing around the Robert Moses Bridge and at the mouths of local tidal creeks inside Great South Bay for school bass and gorilla blues that can push into the ‘teens. These fish respond to live bunker, soft-plastic swim shads and surface poppers. From June through September, fluke become the primary target, with catches spread throughout the inlet and tucked inside Fire Island from Kismet to Democrat Point.

“I like fluke fishing the best,” says Garbe. “It’s especially enjoyable early in the summer when we can concentrate our efforts inside the bay. We’ll make long, comfortable drifts from Ocean Beach to the Fire Island Lighthouse. There’s plenty of unobstructed water here in the channel, which we drift with spearing and squid combos. There are also flats to the north around Captree Island if you want to try some shallow water bucktailing. A 1-ounce Spro Bucktail tipped with Gulp! Alive grubs in white works really well for the bay action.”

Garbe will try for stripers, too, especially around the bridge where they’ll respond to clam-chum or soft-plastic Bass Assassins impaled on a jig head. Last fall, however, he got hooked on blackfishing. He liked it so much that it’s probably going to be his primary focus again this fall. For the tasty tautog, Garbe fishes green crabs right on the bottom. He’ll drop anchor within casting distance of a bridge stanchion and flip his baits right up against the cement. His exact location along the bridge varies from week to week based on water temperature, wind direction and current strength, but both ends of the bridge can be productive from either the east or west side if you take the time to set up right.

“The fishing possibilities were certainly a consideration when joining Freedom Boat Club,” explains Garbe, “but there’s so much more to this deal. For me, it really made a lot of sense. I had fished with my father as a kid but never really learned much about boating. With Freedom, you get all the training you’ll need. You also get to choose from a variety of boat sizes and styles whenever you want to head out. I’m thinking about maybe buying a boat down the line so I’m using this opportunity to see what kind I like best. For fishing, I really enjoy the center consoles. When I’m out just cruising or having fun with my wife, Melanie, and our kids, we’ll change it up from trip to trip.”

If you aren’t familiar with the Freedom Boat Club program, it is pretty neat. For a set fee each year, you simply show up, get on a boat and head out any day you choose. When you are done you pull up to the dock, step off and head home. There are six different boats to choose from at the Babylon location including a Hurricane Sundeck 2200, Key West 239FS Center Console, and a Cobia 220 DC Bowrider. All six are 2017 or 2018 models.

“It really is a hassle-free operation,” says Garbe. You call up and tell the staff you are coming. Your boat is ready when you arrive and you step aboard and go have fun. You don’t even have to wash down your vessel at the end of the day. It’s all the benefits of boat ownership without the hassles.”

Another Freedom Boat Club benefit is that members at any club location can use the boats at any other Freedom Boat Club. That’s quite a bargain when you consider Freedom has 165 locations across North America, and 115 boats between Long Island, CT and RI alone. They also have new locations coming in France.

In the case of the Babylon location, members also have access to the Long Island Yacht Club clubhouse, pool and other amenities on days for which they have a boating reservation.

“Like I said,” summed up Garbe, “this really makes sense for me and my family. Melanie and our kids love being on the boat during the hot days of summer when we can go tubing, cruising or exploring. Often, we’ll spend some time anchored up in nearby Hemlock Cove. In the early spring and later in the fall it’s mostly me and some friends heading out to go fishing. So, we really get a lot out of our membership. For us, it’s been a good investment.”

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Our team of experienced and dedicated staff members are fully committed to creating a safe, positive, and inclusive environment for campers. Our aim is to provide a space where campers can make new friends, learn new skills, and discover their full potential. We offer a wide range of activities, including water-based adventures, sports, and arts and crafts, ensuring that our campers have a variety of options to choose from.

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Anchor Day Camp offers a diverse range of programs to cater to your child's interests and passions. Among these programs, sailing holds a significant place, and we take pride in our curriculum that instills comprehensive learning in this field.

Our one-week Sail & Steam mini-camp program is designed to provide a more immersive experience that delves deeper into the fundamentals of sailing. This program is tailored to cater to sailors of all proficiency levels, including those who are aspiring, intermediate, or advanced, making it an ideal choice for anyone who wants to develop their skills and passion for sailing.

Our Steam summer program is designed to promote creativity and mental stimulation among children. We achieve this through various fun Steam activities like building fundamentals, coding, imagineering, flight patterns, weight displacement on water, and more. We also incorporate a bit of mad science to engage their creative minds and help them learn and make new friends in their summer home!

Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! Our Sail & Steam mini-camp is filling up fast, and space is limited. Register now to secure your spot and discover a world of adventure on the high seas.

Create your own adventure at Anchor Day Camp!

Day Trips, Special Events and Theme Days

Something for everyone.

We have added some exciting new activities to our traditional camp program. On top of the regular camp fun, we will be taking day trips to places like Top Golf, bowling alleys, local beaches, and movie theaters. These trips will be paired with special event and theme days such as College Day Olympics, Luau, Halloween, Dancing with the Stars, and Disney Theme Days. These events will surely add energy and color to our summer camp, creating an experience full of fun and excitement!

New! Little Skippers Progam

This program is designed for campers 4 years old and campers entering Kindergarten in the Fall. It offers age-appropriate activities on site, such as swimming, arts and crafts, Imagineering, sports, and play.

"Smiles Abound at Anchor Day Camp!"

Smiles all day long!

 LIYC’s Anchor Day Camp is an amazing experience for school-aged children. It is run by a fantastic team of directors and counselors who take great care of the campers and truly make summer a blast for them! Swimming, tennis, sailing, arts + crafts, and field trips are just a few fun activities that fill their days!

Thank you, LIYC! 

-Elissa I. - Mom of 2nd grade girl

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I have kept my boat on the North Shore in the Long Island Sound for the last 2 years. However, I live on the South Shore and would love to have easier access to my boat. Does anyone know of sailing friendly yacht clubs on the South Shore in Nassau County?  

The Great South bay is pretty shallow and there are few anchorages on the South Shore. It's not a place for a deep draft sailboat.  

What size boat do you have, and draft? Sheepshead Bay Yacht Club has a pretty friendly group. Not sure if that make your drive any better.  

Where are you on the south shore? What boat do you have? Draft?  

MarkofSeaLife said: @bpierce815_9647 I'm not even from the USA and I can tell theres a bit of confusion in the answers you are getting about where the south shore of Long Island Sound is. I take it you mean, as you have said, south shore of Long Island SOUND , not the south shore of Long ISLAND. So, clarity would be good if you want the best responses Mark Click to expand...

vbiz59 said: Sailing and sailing clubs west of Robert Moses state park are mostly non-existent as there is no water and a long trek thru marsh channels to either the Jones or E.Rockaway inlets. There are some locations In Red Hook, or Graves End, Bklyn and the Brooklyn Bridge Club if you care for the area. What there is of the Great south bay west of RM has average mean soundings of 1' East of RM which is firmly in Suffolk county, you have Bayshore, Oakdale and Sayville yacht clubs respectively which are not to everyone's taste. Alternatively a host of marina's and private dockage exist. Conditions/depths in the GSB east of RM go from 3.5-15' being markedly shallower nearing the edges As you know larger vessels normally steer clear of the south shore as they can't steer into it. Any draft over 3.5' and you need to know where you are. It's a small pool. Click to expand...

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I understand you investigating the options on the south shore. There are spots in the GS Bay where larger sailboats can sail, but the options are very limited compared to LI Sound. Yes you can go out into the ocean, but then you will be dealing with an inlet. Consider this change carefully.  

I don't think any deep fin boats are going to be sailing in the Great South Bay... water is too thin for that. Even the ferry to Fire Island uses a dredged channel. Further, there are few protected harbors / anchorages. You see power boats going from south shore to FI... and some smaller day sailors. Consider the "length" of the coastline there are remarkable few decent spots to anchor. There is decent sailing "between the forks" and some excellent land "attractions". I moored in Dering Harbor and Stirling Harbor for years and enjoyed East End sailing. The run from the 1GI buoy to East Hamptom was a bean reach both ways and only a few hrs sail. The run to BI was 35 miles... a nice sail for the day. Fishers Island was also a great location to sail to and Newport if you had the 11 or so hrs.  

I belong to the South Bay Cruising Club on the South Shore of Long Island. We have no club house, but we race off Bay Shore and Babylon, with the Bay Shore yacht Club and Babylon Yacht club. Both those clubs are nice. Most of us use marinas to keep the boats at, and sail to club activities. You can also look up Sayville Yacht Club and Bellport Yacht Club. A 4 ft. draft is a practical max for the bay, although many have deeper drafts. Fred4936  

Just an addendum: I used to live in Nassau years ago. For good sailing you need to go to Suffolk. The is a club called Unqua Corinthian in Amityville, but sailing has died there, mostly motorboats and party goers. There is a club in Hewlett, but I do not know much about them.  

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