The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club is a small-to-medium (120 active and joint-active memberships) club, located in the heart of the scenic Hudson Valley, on a quiet and beautiful part of the Hudson River about halfway between New York City and Albany. The club offers both docks and moorings to members, and has both docks and moorings available to transients. Our clubhouse and grounds have recently undergone extensive renovations. The clubhouse is now air-conditioned and has upper and lower decks looking out onto the river. Among our other facilities are showers, dockside electricity and water, a well-stocked bar and satellite TV. A 25-ton travel lift is on the grounds for emergency haul-out and repair. The club welcomes both sailors and power boaters; currently we have about 60 powerboats and 48 sailboats in our membership.

     Although our name (“Poughkeepsie”) comes from our origins in the late 19th century (founded in 1892), we are presently located in Staatsburg New York, on historic Route U.S. 9. Nearby attractions include the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hyde Park home, library and museum, the Eleanor Roosevelt home, the Vanderbilt estate and grounds (including hiking trails), the Ogden Mills estate, Norrie state park, and the Culinary Institute of America. We are also not far from the lovely village of Rhinebeck, a popular weekend retreat for New Yorkers with excellent restaurants and a variety of shops.

     The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club is a working club, and all members take part in all our activities. Members are expected to devote 50 hours per year to club activities, which include the major “all-hands” activities of docks in and docks out as well as more mundane activities such as bartending, housekeeping, serving at parties, dock repair, grounds keeping and many others, according to talent and interest. In fact, 50 hours goes very quickly, and many members find that they have accumulated quite a few extra hours at the end of the year. Members may choose the committee with which they wish to be affiliated (docks, membership, house, grounds, moorings, entertainment, etc.). After ten years’ membership, the required hours drops to 25 per year. Club general membership meetings are held monthly on the first Monday of the month, and all are encouraged to attend.