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Surprisingly really good place attended catered open bar party staff was very accommodating drinks were good and plentiful food suprisinglly good. Had a good time

Newly renovated. Looks great with deck overlooking the water. Great caterer, Bon Soir. Really great location with plenty of parking too. They sell gas and diesel for the boats. New carpets and paint in dining room and bar. New furniture in bar. Looks really improved. Food has always been good.

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Great club.awesome marina and boat storage/launch.Great place for anyone who wants to experience boating!

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We are a club for all who love the water, our Nature Coast and having fun. 

• We have an active sailing program with both races and cruises. 
• Our Kayak group does 10 trips a year.
• We have activities like:  Breakfast on the Beach, Potluck Dinners, Commodore's Steak & Chicken Fry and various "Nights Out".
• 4/2 - General Meeting & Nautical Swap Meet (see flyer below)
• 4/6 - Kayak - Withlacoochee River 
• 4/13  - St. Martin's Race (see below)
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• Robert C. November 11, 2022, 11:34 pm Good company…good time 0 0 Reply
• Victor C. September 30, 2022, 11:25 pm NEVER BEEN. BUT THE BOATS SEEM REAL NICE. Nice Canoe club nearby also for those wanting to brave the water. 0 0 Reply
• Coco L. August 15, 2022, 12:46 am Went to a Luau here. Great food great time 0 0 Reply
• Joe S. May 9, 2022, 1:18 am Great place. 0 0 Reply
• Darlene S. August 15, 2021, 5:08 pm I went to the Fillmore Real Estate picnic at the yacht club. It was very nice and the weather was amazing 0 0 Reply
• Damien M. July 9, 2021, 2:19 am Very nice 0 0 Reply
• rich w. July 7, 2021, 11:37 pm Let me tell you all this place is so nice and the people there are so nice too. Stopped to get gas for boat. 0 0 Reply
• John B. July 5, 2021, 2:55 pm Hidden treasure for parties. Right on the water and great people. 0 0 Reply
• LISA P. May 17, 2021, 3:50 pm Has fallen in the looks of the place chairs ripped some broke. They need to replace some things old.food was good..nice on water 0 0 Reply
• Frances C. April 26, 2021, 4:15 am Lots of fun and good food. What more can anyone ask. The service was top notch also 0 0 Reply
• Geoffrey P. December 6, 2020, 2:44 pm Great atmosphere, clean and nice people whom I have been in contact with. Scott and Tommy are great guys also Tony the “Historian” 0 0 Reply
• bob S. November 22, 2020, 10:48 pm Great place great people 0 0 Reply
• Rafael R. November 19, 2020, 11:56 pm Good people doing a great job. 0 0 Reply
• paulie p. October 1, 2020, 4:35 am Nice yacht club 0 0 Reply
• Alan K. August 7, 2020, 1:32 am Nice place with great atmosphere, good people. 0 0 Reply
• Sam Y. May 23, 2020, 2:21 pm Great service, thank You, Sam. 0 0 Reply
• John L. March 16, 2020, 2:22 am Great place with phenomenal people. The leadership is top notch 0 0 Reply
• Dmitry K. August 29, 2019, 9:34 pm Fantastic 0 0 Reply
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Elegant and view is breathtaking!

The family friendly spot on water in Hudson. Fabulous staff with incredible attention to detail whether it be swimming, sailing regulations impeccable grounds and fun food services@

It was ok, nothing exceptional, but nothing negative to say

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Hudson Yacht Club is open: Monday:8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Tuesday:8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Wednesday:8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Thursday:8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Friday:8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Saturday:Closed Sunday:Closed

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Founded in 1909, the Hudson Yacht Club was established as a private, Member-run club for residents of Hudson and environs. Since its inception, the club has maintained a strong family orientation. The Hudson Yacht Club has prospered thanks to the efforts of its Membership. To this day, the spirit of participation and volunteerism, instilled by our founding members, is what gives the Club its spe

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Ice Yachting on the Hudson, A Winter Pastime of FDR

If you wanted to quickly zip up or down the Hudson River , there was a time when the fastest option would have been via ice yacht. According to the National Parks Service , the sleek slim body and large sails of ice yachts once made these unique boats the fastest vehicles on earth, reaching speeds of up to 75 miles per hour as they glided over frozen waters. What began as a utilitarian mode of transport for Dutch settlers evolved into a recreational sport popular among wealthy New Yorkers of the 19th century, and it is still practiced today!

The very first ice boats may have appeared as early as 2000 BC around Scandinavia, according to The Encyclopedia Britannica . However, this mode of transportation gained popularity during the 17th and 18th centuries on the winding canals of the Netherlands. It was also used on the Gulf of Riga, off the Baltic Sea, when the water froze.

The tradition of ice yachting in America was spurred by Dutch settlers who introduced the boats to New York. The Dutch used ice boats on the northern reaches of the Hudson River, from Athens to Albany, to move people and cargo up and down the waterway during the winter months. Dutch ice boats were made by attaching metal and wood runners to the bottoms of hulled working boats.

Throughout the late 1700s and early 1800s, the design and construction of ice boats were refined, and recreational ice yachting became popular among Hudson Valley residents. In the early 1800s, Charles and William Merritt built the first successful lateen-rigged ice boat which had a triangular shape, a single sail, and two long spars, called “boom” and “gaff.” Another popular boat builder of the era was Jacob Buckhout, a resident of Poughkeepsie.

By the late 1800s, wealthy residents along the river had adopted the sport. These property owners had the money and resources to buy the most advanced ice yachts, build structures to house the boats, and hire a crew to maintain them. Soon ice yacht owners began to compete with each other for who had the biggest and fastest vessel. Yachting clubs popped up all over the state, including in towns like Poughkeepsie, Orange Lake, and Athens.

Some of the most ardent fans of ice yachting were the Roosevelts. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was passionate about the sport, captivated by the drama and romance of it. He grew up watching his uncle John compete in races with great success. The family raced their yachts against clubs all across the state, winning again and again. John Roosevelt’s winning yacht, Icicle – constructed by Jacob Buckout – was the largest of the classic yachts, reaching 70 feet long and carrying over one thousand square feet of canvas. 

John Roosevelt went on to become a founding member of the esteemed and still-operating Hudson River Ice Yacht Club , which was formed in 1885. The Hudson River Ice Yacht Club was known to have built the finest and fastest ice boats in the country. Their 1908 club book listed 52 ice yachts on the roster, including the iconic Icicle and Vixen , as well as FDR’s Hawk . Hawk was given to FDR as a Christmas gift by his mother and sailed mainly during his years as a student at Harvard . The yacht is now preserved in the collections of the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. in Hyde Park, New York .

Though interest in ice yachting in the Hudson Valley dwindled through the later part of the 20th century, the activity experienced a revival in the 1960s. In 1964, ice yacht enthusiast Raymond Ruge helped to reorganize the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club and began to salvage ice yachts found in Hudson Valley barns.

The Hudson River Ice Yacht Preservation Trust is continuing the restoration work that started with Ruge. President of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Preservation Trust, Robert S. Wills, told Untapped New York, “The sport of ice sailing today exists under many guises, with craft made from the most modern of materials like carbon fiber and mylar. The pursuit of speed and competition for the fastest remains today as it did in the 1800s, whether on ice or the Formula 1 track. What we pride ourselves in is restoring and maintaining the beautiful and historic ice yachts of the 1800s in exactly the trim as when they were built – traits that would be lost forever if these old boats were “modernized” to go faster.”

“The boats we sail are plenty fast, and we regularly compete against one another,” Wills shares, “But just as one would not alter the inherent design of a historic Bugatti race car to go faster, we respect and preserve this integral part of ice sailing history which would otherwise be lost.” Wills estimates that only around 70 ice yachts, out of the multiple hundreds that were built between the 1820s and 1910s, still exist today. Even fewer are in sailing condition. Among the many boats the Trust has been able to restore is the World Champion JACK FROST , a vessel originally built in 1883 for Commodore Archibald Rogers.

Though warmer winters and aging vessels present obstacles for modern-day ice yachters, there is still a passionate and devoted community dedicated to keeping the activity alive. The sensation of gliding down the Hudson on an ice yacht is one that can’t be replicated. “To me, the most fascinating and enjoyable part of ice sailing is to ghost along at a slow speed in the late afternoon warm winter light, amongst the beauty of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains,” Wills told Untapped New York, “Standing in the isolation of the middle of the Hudson River, so far from the hustle and bustle is something I would recommend to anyone.” If you are interested in donating to help preserve this unique New York sport, please reach out on the Trust website .

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Racing Faster Than a Speeding Car on the Frozen Hudson

In the early 20th century, iceboating could race sailors more than 75 mph — and when the river freezes, it still provides thrills today..

It’s rare to see sailboats on the Hudson this time of year. But in the late 19 th  and early 20 th  centuries, sail-powered iceboats carrying famous valley residents like FDR regularly sped across the frozen waters of the river and local lakes as fast as cars go today. Today, a passionate group of iceboaters tries to keep the tradition alive, always hoping to get their vessels up to speed and introduce new people to their exhilarating sport.

The members of the  Hudson River Ice Yacht Club  lovingly maintain several dozen historic vessels. While they keep them in working trim, in recent years they’ve had little opportunity to get them on the river due to warm winters and too little ice — yet another casualty of the climate crisis. 

“We’re so desperate for a good week of sailing,” says John Sperr, treasurer of the club. “It’s extremely frustrating. There’s not enough reward for the amount of effort that goes into it.” Club member Reid Bielenberg, who has been iceboating for more than half a century, takes a glass-half-full attitude about the limited recent sailing opportunities: “That makes the adventures you  do  accomplish all the more valued,” he says.

In recent years iceboaters have had little opportunity to get their vessels on the river due to warm winters and too little ice — yet another casualty of the climate crisis.

Faster than a speeding locomotive

It’s a far cry from the “golden age” of Hudson River iceboating, which dates roughly from 1880-1910, when it was a pastime of riverfront estate owners looking for year-round thrills. But the practice of sailing on the river’s ice began much earlier, with Dutch colonists who attached runners to their boats to transport goods and people during winter.

In 1790, Poughkeepsie’s Oliver Booth designed a craft geared specifically for travel on ice. Essentially a square box, it featured three runners — two fixed and one that moved, allowing a crew member to steer. It quickly caught on for transportation, recreation, and even warfare. During the War of 1812, plans were hatched to destroy a British ship frozen on Lake Champlain with an iceboat filled with explosives. According to Sperr, Booth’s design “is generally credited with starting the recreational iceboat movement in the United States.”

Benson Lossing’s The Hudson , published in 1866, offers a vivid account of iceboating in Peekskill Bay: “Wrapped in furs and shawls, over-coats and cloaks, men and women, boys and girls, were enjoying the rare exercise with the greatest pleasure. Fun, pure fun, ruled the hour. The air was vocal with shouts and laughter; and when the swift ice-boat, with sails set, gay pennon streaming, and freighted with a dozen boys and girls, came sweeping gracefully toward the crowd — after making a comet-like orbit of four or five miles to the feet of the Donder Berg, Bear Mountain, and Anthony’s Nose — there was a sudden shout, and scattering, and merry laughter, that would have made old Scrooge, even before his conversion, tremulous with delight.”

As technology advanced during the 19 th century, so did the speed of iceboats, increasing the desire to race them. Soon, clubs sprang up all along the upper stretches of the river, including Newburgh, Hyde Park, and Poughkeepsie. Poughkeepsie became the epicenter of the sport (as it would for intercollegiate rowing four decades later) because it sat along a 20-mile stretch of the river offering ideal winter sailing conditions — snow-cleared ice at least six (and preferably eight) inches thick, a long spell of cold weather, and sustained winds around 15 mph. 

On race days hundreds, if not thousands, of people huddled on the ice near the city to watch the boats compete — either against each other or locomotives. The iceboats usually beat the trains; for a time, they were the fastest vehicles on the planet, capable of reaching speeds of 75 mph or greater, and occasionally exceeding 100 mph.

The racing iceboats owned by the wealthy were full-on yachts. Along with being huge — John Roosevelt’s  Icycle  spanned 70 feet, hoisted 1,000 feet of sail, and had to be moved on a railroad flatcar — they featured carved figureheads, a variety of woods, even gold leaf.

Those wanting the fastest ice yachts relied on Jacob Buckhout, whose workshop first was located in Highland, beneath today’s Mid-Hudson Bridge, before it moved to Poughkeepsie. Buckhout built both the  Icycle  and the  Jack Frost , which belonged to Archibald Rogers, Roosevelt’s Hyde Park neighbor. They each won the Ice Yacht Challenge Pennant of America, the sport’s Kentucky Derby, four times.

Despite the name, ice yachts hardly resemble boats. They look more like a cross with a pole (the mast) rising from where the two beams meet. Cables and turnbuckles hold the beams together, while one or two sails propel the craft across the ice on machete-sized runners.

The iceboats usually beat the trains; for a time, they were the fastest vehicles on the planet, capable of reaching speeds of 75 mph or greater, and occasionally exceeding 100 mph.

One or two sailors lie prone, on their stomachs or sides, in a cockpit on the main beam. With their bodies just 18 inches off the ice, they can travel faster than a car on the interstate — and without brakes. (To stop, you have to turn the boat into the wind.)

Is it scary? Not to Sperr, who took his first sail in an iceboat in 1982 and has been hooked ever since. “It’s like flying an airplane — incredible exhilaration,” he says before going on to describe some of the thrills while out on the Hudson: “wind in your face…sailing by coyotes on the ice, hunting ducks…passing tugboats.”

Bielenberg, who owns the  Vixen , built in 1885 for John Roosevelt, says that while some passengers complain about the bumpiness — “they say it feels like you’re going over railroad tracks” — “it’s a pretty thrilling ride for something that’s 130 years old.” (Click  here  to take a “ride” on the  Vixen .)

“We love giving people rides”

The Hudson River Ice Yacht Club was founded in 1885 when some members of the Poughkeepsie Ice Yacht Club, the nation’s first organization devoted to the sport, broke away over a dispute. It boasted the fastest boats in the country, including the  Icycle .

The club also included the  Hawk , owned by John Roosevelt’s nephew, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The future president raced the boat, a Christmas gift from his mother, primarily during his college years. It’s now in the collection of the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site and makes occasional appearances at special events.

The club continued to flourish until disbanding around World War I, when enthusiasts “discovered automobiles and airplanes,” says Sperr. But in the 1960s, interest in iceboating and its heritage on the Hudson was revived and the club re-formed, this time less elite and more approachable. Its standard-bearer was Cornwall’s Ray Ruge, dubbed “Mr. Ice Boat,” who owned and restored several of the historic vessels. Through his enthusiasm and writings, he encouraged others to follow his lead, including a teenage Bielenberg, who became interested in the sport after reading an article by Ruge in  Boys’ Life  magazine.  

From the 1970s up to 2000, sailors could regularly count on favorable conditions. Since then, says Bielenberg, “nearly half the years have gone by without any iceboating at all.” The last great congregation on the river, a “once-in-a-lifetime” event, one longtime sailor  told  the  New York Times , occurred in 2014 near Barrytown.

When ice in the open Hudson doesn’t cooperate, boaters sometimes find sailing fail-safes in Tivoli Bay or Orange Lake in Newburgh, where four generations of the Lawrence family have raced boats. Frustrating weather aside, the club remains strong — about 70 people attended its recent annual meeting — and it’s always on the lookout for new members.

A weather forecaster acquaintance of Sperr’s has suggested that luck might be on the club’s side this season, predicting a February cold snap for the valley. “If it comes, we’ll be there. We’re so desperate for a good week of sailing,” he says. If the stars indeed align — you can keep abreast of  sailing conditions  on the club’s website — don’t miss the show. And be prepared to go for a sail. Adds Sperr, “We love giving people rides.”

Reed Sparling is a staff writer and historian at Scenic Hudson. He is the former editor of Hudson Valley Magazine, and currently co-edits the Hudson River Valley Review , a scholarly journal published by the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College.

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Lynn Freehill-Maye Managing Editor [email protected]  

Riley Johndonnell Director Creative Strategies & Communications [email protected]

• Journalists and writers who have deep familiarity with New York and the Hudson Valley, we’d love to have you contribute! Please do  introduce yourself by email , sharing writing samples and any relevant pitches you may have.
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• Illustrators , we commission artwork on the regular.  Drop us a note  with some of the beauty you’ve created.
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• We love to collaborate with media outlets, especially on episodic series (like these ) of interest to our shared audiences. Past collaborations have included radio interviews, panel discussions and other events, original artwork, and e-blasts, all furthering the campaign’s excitement and reach. 
• We also love to partner with other organizations whose missions align with Scenic Hudson’s. Feel free to reach out with some background on your group and its work.
• Writers, photographers, and creatives, if you have an idea for a series or content campaign that might be a good fit, drop us a line!

Businesses , please note that as a nonprofit, Scenic Hudson is restricted from advertising or promoting for-profit companies, through Viewfinder or other outlets. While we understand content managers may wish to alert us to your company’s role in a relevant topic, we are unable to add links to businesses to our stories.

• Writers, photographers, and creatives, if you have an idea for a series or content campaign that might be a good fit, drop us a line !

Hudson River Boat & Yacht Club Association

Maintaining a constant study of all things pertinent to the sport of boating and other recreational use of the Hudson River and improving conditions thereon.

Promoting increased inter-club activity among various clubs on the Hudson River; encouraging and furthering education relative to boating and navigation.

Cooperating with all government agencies concerned with the management and regulation of the Hudson River and with boating matters in general.

A Message from the President

The Hudson River Boat and Yacht Club Association (HRBYCA) has been the advocate for 33 local boat and yacht clubs from Raritan Bay, New Jersey to Port Ewan, New York. For 47 years, our goal has been to protect the environment of the Hudson River while encouraging the enjoyment of the river for over 5,000 recreational boating families. We ensure that our voices are represented in issues of government and we are a strong advocate of clean waters and responsible and safe boating.

The goal of the HRBYCA is to provide clubs with knowledge necessary to run our volunteer boating organizations. There are many challenges with growing membership, waterfront access, dredging, tax, insurance, environmental and safety concerns, and other practical issues.

General membership meetings take place on the last Tuesday of every other month. We strongly encourage and welcome any recreational boat owner, PWC owner, or paddler to attend our meetings, which offer topics that have an impact on your boating.

If you’re interested in joining a boat club on the Hudson River and would like more information, please check out our list of member clubs.

To stay current of all HRBYCA and river events please “Like” us on HRBYCA Facebook page.

Thanks, and I hope to see you on the river!

Jerry Silverman

Jerry Silverman President Hudson River Boat &Yacht Club Association [email protected]

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