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Grosse Pointe Yacht Club

Inaugural Member – Private Yacht Club which has consistently been voted Number One Yacht Club in the United States by the Club Managers Association. Diverse programs from sailing, swimming, tennis, platform tennis and bowling, in addition to fine dining and children’s programs, are all benefits of membership.

788 Lake Shore Road Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236 USA

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Grosse Pointe Yacht Club

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Grosse Pointe Yacht Club is than a facility or affiliation.We are a unique community. A community of common interests and shared values. A family of good people being served by other good people. In an atmosphere of friendship and mutual respect.As we have for generations, we stand proud and tall along the water, and welcome all who join us in the pursuit of enjoyment.

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• Special Occasions
• Corporate Events
• Bowling Parties

Junior Sailing

Grosse Yacht Club is looking forward to an amazing Summer Program in 2023! With classes for all experience levels, a fleet of Optis, Laser (w/ Full, Radial, and 4.7 rigs), C420s, O'pen Bics, J22s and an exciting calendar of events, this will be a perfect summer to start or expand your adventures under sail!

Full day sessions: 9 am until 4 pm Morning sessions: 9 am until noon Afternoon sessions: Noon until 4 pm Kindersailing : Half-days, 9–12pm or 1–4pm

Sessions I: June 19 – 30

Sessions 2: July 3 – 14 (no sailing July 4)

Sessions 3: July 24 – August 4

Race Team: June 19 – August 11, Awards August 10

No Sailing : July 15 – 23, Mackinac Race

Kinder Sailing : July 17 – 21 and August 6–11

Class Descriptions

Learn to Sail (ages 7–11) †

An introduction to the sport of sailing, this course will teach the basics of rigging a boat, boat handling, sailing fundamentals and water safety with a fun, game-inspired curriculum. Instruction is done in club-owned Optimists and J/22s. Sailors are paired with one another and learn the basics of steering, trimming the sail, and balancing the boat in an exciting, hands-on way.  This class can be taken once or repeated until a sailor is ready to be in a boat on their own.

• You like watersports and want to try sailing
• You like having fun!

Adventure Sailing (ages 12–18) †

Adventure sailing is for the beginner to advanced teenaged sailor who wants to explore the water and improve their ailing in a fun and casual way. During this two-week session, sailors will get to sail the club’s J/22s, O’pen Bics, 420s and windsurfers. This class focuses on water safety and seamanship while allowing sailors to experience the joys of being on the water.

• You like being on the water with friends and want to learn to sail
• You want more variety in your sailing experience
• You want to have fun and improve your sailing skills without competition

GPYC Racing Team (ages 8+) †

GPYC’s racing team is a fun but intensive program for intermediate-advanced sailors who are ready to compete in local and regional regattas. Our racing team competes in weekly local events with additional opportunities to compete on a regional and national level. Sailor shave the opportunity to compete in the clubs Optis, Lasers, and 420s.  

Kinder Sailing (ages 5–6) †

This week long session is a perfect sailing introductionfor those who love the water but aren’told enough yet for our learn to sail program.Our instructors will use the sailing simulator and theclub’s J22s to get our smallest sailors comfortableon the water. This session will cover basic sailingconcepts and water safety. Half Days, 9–12 or 1–4pm

2023 Class Pricing

• February 1, Early Registration begins for Summer Programs
• February 1, Spring High School Registration Opens
• June 1, Registration Deadline
• CANCELLATIONS/ CHANGES Must be submitted to [email protected]
• CHANGES Will be accommodated based on availability.

Participation Requirements

• Pass a relatively easy swim test on the first day of each session.
• Wear a properly fitting U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket at all times on the water.

One of sailing's greatest lessons is learning the importance of being prepared and keeping checklists. Please review the recommended list below and make sure to label all that nice gear with your name !

PFD (lifejacket) †

US Coast Guard Approved, Type III. Brands like Extrasport and Gill are the most popular and comfortable. Fit is important, so please choose the appropriate size for THIS summer.

Sunscreen †

Every sailor must have their own tube. The more protection the better. Ideally choose a waterproof variety that won’t hurt the eyes.

Even better sun protection.

Sun Glasses   †

Important protection for the only eyes you have!

"Every sailor brings a bailer" which can easily be fashioned by cutting the bottom off of a big OJ or laundry soap jug.

Waterproof Watch  †

With a countdown function for racing sailors.

Change of Clothes †

Besides wearing clothes to get wet in, every sailor should have extra dry duds and a towel.

Staying hydrated is important for a safe, fun, learning experience!

Lunch/Money  †

You can bring your lunch or purchase from GPYC's Harbor Grill. We have a refrigerator in the MAC.

Good Attitude  †

Well rested, well fed, happy, and ready to HAVE FUN!

Answers to common questions about our Sailing Program

scholarships

Scholarship instructions and application.

NOTE: Scholarship Applications deadline is Sunday April 2, 2024, 5pm. Students are eligible for scholarships if they have participated in the DRYA area junior sailing at anytime.

The YNEF will be awarding a minimum of (11) $2,000 college scholarships to young sailors in the community and the Detroit Regional Yacht-racing Association. These scholarships have been created to encourage young men and women to actively participate in sailing activities throughout their high school and college years.

High school seniors and college/university students attending college/university classes in the 2024/25 academic year are eligible to apply.

The assessment process will use three criteria found on the Scholarship Application Form;

• Two original essays (topics provided
• Applicant’s resume of sailing experience and
• Documentation of academic accomplishment (transcripts inc., GPA’s.

The YNEF currently has twelve (12) Perpetual Scholarships supported by endowments that make it possible to award an annual scholarship (indexed for inflation) basically forever, presented  in the donor’s name. Persons interested in a perpetual scholarship should contact Jim Morrow .

Current Perpetual Scholarship Donors

• 2012 Commodore James and Patricia Anderson
• 2012 Commodore John and Marlene Boll
• 2013 Manuel J. and Nora Moroun
• 2014 Commodore James and Sandra Morrow
• 2014 Benno Steinborn
• 2015 W. W. Williams Company
• 2016 Edwin and Felicia Shaw
• 2016 Commodore Tymon C. and Sheri Totte
• 2017 Commodore Sean and Kristen Schotthoefer
• 2018 Commodore Ilja and Kelley Vreeken
• 2021 Zach Rockwell Scholarship
• 2021 Commodore Gary and Christine Gonzalez
• Donors are invited to the Brunch each year for the presentation of the scholarships and to meet the recipients.  Scholarships are presented in the Name of the Donor, example: “Commodore John and Marlene Boll Scholarship”
• A recognition plaque is displayed in the GPYC Lobby and a brick and plaque at the Sailor’s Recognition Area.
• 100% of the purchase of the naming right to a scholarship is tax favorable and deductible.Questions should be directed to Jim Morrow, YNEF President, (313) 510-4058 Email: [email protected]

2023 YNEF Scholarship Recipients

In 2023, eleven Youth Nautical Education Foundation (YNEF) applicants were awarded a $2,000 college scholarship. Since its inception in 2012, there has been a total of 124 YNEF scholarships awarded. Twelve of those scholarships have been funded in perpetuity.

College scholarships are awarded based on a summary of sailing experience in the Detroit Regional Yacht-racing Association Club Junior Programs, high school or college freshman sailing programs and academic credentials. 2022 GPYNEF Scholarship Application may be found at gpynef.org/scholarships. Application Deadline: Grosse Pointe Yacht Club by April 2, 2024, 5 pm.

The 2023 Scholarship recipients (pictured below) were awarded during a special brunch at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club in May 15.

• Quinn Cassidy
• Graduated: Harbor Springs High School
• Attending: Trinity College Dublin
• Scholarship: Manuel J. and Nora Moroun 
• Zoey Crossley
• Graduated: Grosse Pointe North High School
• Attending: Michigan State University
• Scholarship: Zach Rockwell Scholarship
• Daniel Gerhardstein
• Graduated: Grosse Pointe South High School
• Attending: Embry-Riddle Aero University
• Scholarship: Commodore James and Patricia Anderson
• Charles Gonzalez
• Graduated: Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School
• Attending: University of Denver
• Scholarship: Commodore Ilja and Kelley Vreeken
• Charles Gmeiner
• Scholarship: Commodore James and Sandy Morrow
• Dane Greenwood
• Graduated: Troy High School
• Attending: University of Michigan
• Scholarship: Commodore Tymon C. and Sheri Totte
• Colin Hexter
• Attending: Marquette University
• Scholarship: Detroit Regional Yacht-racing Association
• Conner Kirkman
• Graduated: Novi High School
• Scholarship: Commodore Sean and Kristen Schotthoefer
• Eva Ottenbreit
• Graduated: Grosse Ile High School
• Attending: US Naval Academy (USNA)
• Scholarship: Beno Steinborn
• John Riordan
• Graduated: Brother Rice High School
• Anthony Sgrazzutti
• Graduated: L’Anse Creuse High School
• Attending: Ferris State University
• Scholarship: Commodore John and Marlene Boll
• Braden Vogel
• Scholarship: W.W. Williams
• Sophia Worden
• Attending: University of South Florida
• Scholarship: Commodore Gary and Christine Gonzalez

GP Yacht Club, Detroit church on historic places list

The Grosse Pointe Yacht Club and a Detroit church, Spiritual Israel and Its Army Temple, have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The two buildings are among 10 Michigan sites added to the list, the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office announced Wednesday. Michigan has more than 1,600 sites on the national list which recognizes places that are worth preservation.

"We're certainly delighted and honored to be designated," said Kevin Granger, commodore of the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. "Our club has been around for a long time. We want to maintain it for everyone."

The yacht club was founded in 1914 and its clubhouse on Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Shores officially opened in July 1929. The clubhouse became an elite gathering place for successful businessmen and their families, according to National Register Coordinator Bob Christensen.

In an application for the national designation, Christensen notes the building's architecture.

"The Grosse Pointe Yacht Club is an excellent example of the Mediterranean Revival style, which enjoyed a bout of popularity in the United States from the turn of the nineteenth century to the early 1930s," he wrote.

Granger, who has been involved with the yacht club since his parents joined in 1959, said there are plans to establish a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization to allow fundraising.

"We want to keep it in the character and the manner in which it was originally built," he said.

The building that houses Spiritual Israel and Its Army Temple was also noted for its architecture, according to Christensen. The building, previously known as Amity Lodge No. 335, is on Amity Street on the city's east side.

"The building itself, other than the highly visible and inappropriate replacement windows, retains high integrity as a large early twentieth-century former lodge building of neoclassical and commercial brick design that retains large and largely intact meeting spaces," Christensen wrote in the application about the building.

The leader of the church, Bishop Bobby J. Davis, could not be reached for comment.

When it was the Amity Lodge No. 335, a number of Odd Fellows organizations occupied the building beginning in 1913 or 1914, according to Christensen. The church bought the former lodge in 1960.

The church's existence in Detroit decades before is one result of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans moving from the south during the Great Migration of the 1910s and 1920s and establishing roots in northern cities such as Detroit, Christensen wrote. The Spiritual Israel and Its Army Temple denomination was founded in Alabama in the early 1900s and brought to Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s.

"Non-mainstream black religion seems to have been largely ignored by historians of the American religious experience until relatively recent years, but it seems clear that this large-scale and highly diverse panorama of non-mainstream black religion in Detroit brought about through the upheaval of the Great Migration represents an important feature of Detroit's religious and cultural history," he wrote.

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Historic list's newest members from Michgian

The 10 sites in Michigan that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places:

■Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, Grosse Pointe Shores

■Amity Lodge No. 335- Spiritual Israel and Its Army Temple, Detroit

■Historic downtown districts in St. Louis and Mount Pleasant

■The Morgan West Wheatland Cemetery, Wheatland Township

■Saginaw County Fairgrounds Main Gate

■Walter H. French Junior High, Lansing

■Peoples National Bank Building, Jackson

■William A. and Catherine Cartier House, Ludington

■Wing-Allore House, Monroe

Grosse Pointe Yacht Club Classics and Coffee

Hey Automotive Aficionado

Get ready to fuel your passion with the roar of engines and the gleam of chrome!  Genesis Automotive Group  invites you to an exclusive season of  Cars & Coffee  at the iconic  Grosse Pointe Yacht Club .

Mark your calendars for:

• Dates: Saturday, June 8th, July 13th, August 10th, and September 14th, 2024 
• Time: 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
• Location: Grosse Pointe Yacht Club

Here’s why you can’t miss it:

• Showcase your pride and joy: Mingle with fellow car enthusiasts and flaunt your automotive masterpiece in the most exquisite setting Detroit has to offer.
• Unleash your inner foodie: Indulge in delicious bites from a food truck, sweeten your day with pastries, and fuel your coffee cravings. (Over 21? Treat yourself to a cash mimosa bar!)
• Immerse yourself in the ambiance: Live entertainment sets the mood, while learning about other exclusive events at the GPYC membership tent.

Limited Spots, Exclusive Access:

• Entry is free, but registration is mandatory and vehicle entry is reserved for   GPYC members and pre-registered invited guests.  Secure your spot by registering your vehicle (not occupants) in advance.
• Pre-registration is key! As a guest, you can reserve your spot before anyone else.
• Don’t miss out! Tickets are limited to 100 vehicles per event.

Ready to join the ultimate automotive gathering?  Click the Eventbrite links below and secure your spot before they’re gone!

Saturday, September 14th  – All Genesis Automotive Group Brands Featured

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Saturday, June 8 th  – Genesis Alfa Romeo Featured Brand

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Saturday, July 13th  – Genesis Cadillac Featured Brand

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Saturday, August 10th  – Genesis Chevrolet Featured Brand  

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Chris Pokorski

Marketing Director

Genesis Automotive Group

Office – 586.541-1537

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