| Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club | |
| Burgee: | Burgee of Chautauqua Lake YC.svg |
| Short Name: | CLYC |
| Founded: | 1894 |
| Location: | 43 E Lake Street, Lakewood, New York |
The Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club (CLYC) is a private yacht club located in Lakewood, New York, on the south shore of Chautauqua Lake.
The club was a powerhouse of the Snipe International Class, and still holds number 124 in the listing of Snipe fleets around the world.[1] In that class, CLYC hosted the world championship in 1946, the North Americans in 1979,[2] [3] and the Nationals in 1949, 1958 and 1966, while producing two SCIRA Commodores: Harold Griffith (1949) and Edward "Red" Garfield (1960).
CLYC is now home of the following fleets:
Leslie Larson won the 1959 Snipe Junior National Championship along with his crew, Jim Lenna,[4] and the National Championship in 1962 with his father Victor Larson (who had been second himself in 1946).[5]