Rockcliffe Yacht Club | |
Size: | 280px |
Abbreviation: | RYC |
Formation: | 1984 |
Type: | Yacht club Organization based in Canada |
Status: | active |
Purpose: | Recreation |
Headquarters: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Region Served: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Membership: | 100 |
Language: | English, French |
The Rockcliffe Yacht Club is a non-profit Yacht club based on the south shore of the Ottawa River near the Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada north of the Canada Aviation Museum. It is a 100-member “private co-op” style club. The club originally was part of CFB Rockcliffe but changed to a private club in 1984. The club is centred on a concrete ramp originally used to launch RCAF sea planes. The ramp extends into the water [1] as when the ramp was built, in the 1930s, the level of the Ottawa river was much lower. In 1964, a dam was put across the Ottawa River for the Carillon Generating Station which raised the water level by .[2] As a result, the Rockcliffe Yacht Club has one of the best launching ramps on the Ottawa river.