St. Francis Yacht Club
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| Founded | 1927 |
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| Location | 99 Yacht Road, San Francisco, California & Tinsley Island,  United States
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| Website | www |
The St. Francis Yacht Club is a private sailing club located in San Francisco.
It was founded in 1927 when the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club (the oldest sailing club in the western United States) decided to move their clubhouse out of San Francisco to Belvedere, California, about 13 miles to the north in Marin County. About half of the membership of the San Francisco Yacht Club declined to make the move and instead formed the St. Francis. It has become generally considered to be the most prestigious yacht club in the western United States. Membership in the club is by invitation only.
The Club hired San Francisco architect Willis Polk to design their clubhouse which was then built on land rented from San Francisco by the Club on the jetty off of Crissy Field in the Marina District, San Francisco, on landfill created for the 1917 Panama Pacific International Exposition. Polk died before the blueprints could be completed but his office finished them. The Mediterranean Revival-style building is the yacht club closest in proximity to the Golden Gate Bridge and enjoys views from the Bridge to Alcatraz Island and beyond. The Golden Gate Yacht Club is situated a few hundred yards further east along the jetty.
The St. Francis assembled a syndicate to compete for the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup, with their entry, AmericaOne. Their entry was defeated in the semifinals by Italy's Prada.
The St. Francis sponsors the St. Francis Perpetual Trophy, the Isadore Zellerbach Perpetual Trophy, the City of San Francisco Trophy, the Atlantic Perpetual Trophy, the San Francisco Cup and about ten other annual trophies and cups.
The St. Francis has had many flagships over the years including some historic craft.
The Club maintains a satellite clubhouse on Tinsley Island just west of in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta which is used primarily during summer months, and as a training area for the children of members.
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