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By John Branch

  • Sept. 4, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty years ago, before its failing finances were rescued by the billionaire Larry Ellison and before it won the America’s Cup, the Golden Gate Yacht Club was just a forlorn building at the end of a quarter-mile jetty. To get there, its members had to pass by the exclusive St. Francis Yacht Club, one of the most prestigious in the world.

The Golden Gate and the St. Francis shared the best views of the bay — the Golden Gate Bridge to the left, Alcatraz to the right, the city perched on hills behind. But in the cloistered world of yacht clubs, they could not have been more different.

The 200 or so Golden Gate members had a key to the building, which meant that its bar was subject to the honor system, but never to last call.

“So you left Union Street with a beautiful lady,” said Bill O’Keeffe, a member since 1972. “And you’d say, ‘How’d you like to come down to my yacht club?’ ”

Dues were $25 a month. Dancing atop the bar was encouraged. Friday night parties sometimes ended with swims in the boat marina, though not always in swim attire — or attire of any kind. Members occasionally lobbed water balloons or shot water guns at boats entering or exiting the marina, especially those flying the colors of the St. Francis.

“It had prestige,” O’Keeffe said of the neighboring club. “We actually shunned prestige.”

That became hard to do when Ellison walked away from negotiations with the St. Francis, where he was a member, to sponsor his quest to win the America’s Cup in 2003. Ellison soon accepted a desperate plea from Norbert Bajurin, the owner of a radiator-repair shop in San Francisco, to join the nearly bankrupt Golden Gate next door.

And when that combination won yachting’s biggest prize in Valencia, Spain, in 2010, on Ellison’s third try, the Golden Gate Yacht Club became the sixth — and unlikeliest — winner in the trophy’s 160-year history.

Golden Gate 1, St. Francis 0.

That day in Spain, Ellison stood behind Bajurin and put his hand on his shoulder as they awaited the winner’s news conference.

“I could feel his beard on me, and I could feel his breath,” Bajurin said. “And he said, ‘I wonder what the St. Francis is thinking now.’ ”

When the 34th America’s Cup begins on Saturday, pitting Ellison’s Oracle Team USA against Emirates Team New Zealand in a best-of-17 series that could last two weeks, the Golden Gate and the St. Francis will sit, side by side, sharing the best views of the races on San Francisco Bay.

In the coming weeks, if the trophy is successfully defended, it will be carried to a party at the little clubhouse at the end of the spit. But first, it will pass the large yacht-club home of corporate titans and Olympic sailors, past a club with an esteemed history of winning every major sailing race in the world, except the biggest one.

Let’s Make a Deal

The St. Francis had attempted to win the America’s Cup in 2000. The member Paul Cayard skippered AmericaOne into the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup, a sort of semifinal to determine who would challenge the defending champion in the America’s Cup. AmericaOne lost.

By then, Ellison, the founder and chief executive of Oracle, had built his résumé with major sailing victories for a team that he financed and sometimes skippered. He bought the assets from the AmericaOne team with the intention of creating the top challenger from the United States for the next America’s Cup, in 2003.

It was presumed that the St. Francis, which Ellison had joined several years earlier, would shepherd his quest. Negotiations were sticky. The two sides were unwilling to cede too much control.

The club wanted to name the boat. It refused to guarantee that Ellison, should his team win the America’s Cup, would be chosen to defend it if and when the race went to San Francisco Bay. It rejected a request to form a board within the St. Francis board of directors that would exclusively handle matters related to the America’s Cup.

Bajurin and other members of the Golden Gate Yacht Club heard whispers and read news media accounts of the failing negotiations. The club was $453,000 in debt.

“Everybody was having a good time, and no one was paying attention to the books,” Bajurin said.

Keys were collected. Booze was locked up. Food service was eliminated. Desperate for cash, the club talked of adding a vending machine, because it might bring in $300 a month. Members who had not quit were asked to advance money to save the club. Some paid. More quit.

Bajurin and other club officers debated whether to place the Golden Gate in bankruptcy or to shutter it entirely. With nothing to lose, Bajurin tried to reach Ellison at Oracle. He never heard back. He found an e-mail address for Bill Erkelens, who led Ellison’s sailing team.

“Golden Gate Yacht Club Available,” he wrote in the subject line. “Our club may be your answer.”

The response came the next day. Erkelens wanted to talk.

“I remember looking at that e-mail for almost two hours, thinking you’ve got to be kidding me,” Bajurin said. “They responded!”

A deal was signed less than three months later, in early 2001. For Ellison, it gave him a club willing to acquiesce to his requests, a club with a location as good as that of the St. Francis.

“We were very flexible, and very broke,” said Ron Matlin, the Golden Gate’s longtime accountant.

The deal saved the Golden Gate. Ellison and his team of 100 immediately joined the yacht club — each paying the $1,000 membership fee and a year’s worth of $90-per-month dues. Bills were slowly paid. Debts were eased. Membership grew again. The clubhouse was spruced up.

“If we hadn’t done the Oracle deal, the club wouldn’t be here,” Matlin said. “No question.”

Ellison is one of the world’s richest people. Bajurin is a Croatian immigrant, more of a fisher than a sailor, a former police officer who took over his father’s radiator shop and now has nine employees. He drives a Nissan truck.

Their unusual pairing spawned a book — “The Billionaire and the Mechanic,” by the San Francisco Chronicle reporter Julian Guthrie — published this year. And it brought the America’s Cup to San Francisco Bay for the first time, right in front of two clubs that share one spit.

Worlds Apart

Both clubs have been decked out for a summer’s worth of warm-up races. The narrow parking lot between them holds temporary bleachers facing the bay, backing to the boat-filled marina they share.

Visitors might not ascertain which club is hosting the event, even if they were allowed inside the ultra-private St. Francis. Past the signs instructing guests to stay outside until escorted in by a member and past the security desk, a large model of Ellison’s 72-foot America’s Cup catamaran sits in the lobby. There are viewing parties during races. The club’s Web site offers “America’s Cup Information” just above the pronouncement that it was recently named the No. 1 yacht club in the country.

If there is America’s Cup envy, the signs are not obvious.

“No one says it,” Brian Madden, a rare member of both clubs, said of the St. Francis. “But you know it’s there. You can sense it.”

He sometimes wears a Golden Gate Yacht Club sweater into the St. Francis, receiving some playful jeers. “It’s like winning the Super Bowl,” Madden said. “We could have had it, but we just gave it to the other team.”

Members of both clubs said there was no hostility between the two. Rivalries are usually between equals, and no one believes that the St. Francis and the Golden Gate have ever been the same thing, beyond location and an affection for open water.

The St. Francis has roughly 2,300 members, and initiation fees — kept private — are said to be as high as $30,000, less for younger prospects as it tries to attract a more youthful crowd. It is not unlike a fancy golf or tennis country club, with a marina and bay view instead of courts and grass. (And, a few hours away by boat on the San Joaquin River, is club-owned Tinsley Island, with full facilities and space for 100 boats.)

Cellphones are not permitted. Neither are hats. It has a full dining room — jackets required — and its kitchen might be larger than the entire 7,000 square feet of the Golden Gate. There is a relatively casual bar and grill on the lower level, and a sprawling mix of rooms — a chart room built like an estate library, meeting rooms paneled in dark wood, walls lined with trophies and boat models and historic photographs and paintings. There is a gift shop. The lower level has locker rooms, a workout room and a sauna. There are set hours each day, and the schedule is flush with regattas, dinners, auctions and wine tastings.

In the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 2011, it had revenue of $12.9 million, according to Internal Revenue Service filings.

The Golden Gate, by comparison, reported revenue of about $662,000 in 2011. Membership has grown to about 425. Initiation fees are about $2,500, and monthly dues are $125.

“They’re 10 times the size,” the longtime Golden Gate member Ned Barrett said of the St. Francis. “And have 10 times the resources.”

Amid its newfound prestige — no longer shunned, but sheepishly noted — the Golden Gate tries to cling to its blue-collar sensibilities. Gone, perhaps, are the days when a member’s birthday would be greeted by a woman jumping from a cake — one a few years ago then moved to the roof to promote and sell her various talents — but members hope to retain its sleepy, everybody-knows-your-name personality. Hours of operation are flexible. The general manager Bob Mulhern will close the doors at night if there is no one around. Some days, only a few members stop by.

The building was closed for several months this year and renovated in time for the America’s Cup crowds, with new floors, furniture and an elevator, mostly. Still, jeans are allowed. So are cellphones and hats. And while dancing atop the bar occurs with less frequency, it is still welcomed.

“At the St. Francis, you would be put on probation for six months,” said John Yelda, a well-known charter-boat captain and sailboat racer who is a member of both clubs.

Yelda keeps his boats in the marina behind the clubs. (One way to tell club members apart? Golden Gate members are the ones working on their boats; St. Francis members usually hire someone else, several people said, only half joking.) His routine often includes an afternoon beer at the Golden Gate and dinner at the St. Francis.

“We have two yacht clubs, side by side,” Yelda said. “This is a blessing.”

The difference, to him, is one of taste.

“The Golden Gate is like a little boutique hotel,” Yelda said. “It’s very friendly, small, intimate. Everybody knows you. St. Francis Yacht Club is more like a Four Seasons hotel. It has a lot more members, and has exquisite service. You don’t know everyone there, but the staff knows you.”

Madden, a 45-year-old electrician, joined the Golden Gate 20 years ago, when he was single and had a hand-me-down boat he bought for $4,500. He joined the St. Francis 10 years later, where he subsequently married, where his children celebrate birthdays, and where the family eats formal holiday meals at Easter, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

People with a lot of money, Madden said, merely want the nicest things. That goes for houses, cars and yacht clubs.

“If you have the money, you’re not going to the Golden Gate,” he said. “You’re going to run to the St. Francis.”

But not everyone. David Anderman is a weekend sailor and the general manager for Lucasfilm. He has been credited with negotiating the company’s $4 billion acquisition by Disney in 2012. Married with two daughters, ages 9 and 11, Anderman looked carefully at both clubs a couple of years ago before choosing the Golden Gate.

“Really, it’s all about where you want to be and who you want to be with,” he said.

His family sat at a table nearby, overlooking the sailboats racing on the bay. Out the corner window, they could see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance and the St. Francis Yacht Club next door.

“It doesn’t hurt that it’s the home of the America’s Cup,” Anderman said. “I have to say, half the time you come out, they’ve got the America’s Cup trophy sitting right there.”

He scrolled through his phone and showed photographs he had taken with the three-foot trophy, made of sterling silver in 1848.

Bajurin stood near the bar, grinning with pride. The day’s races were soon over, but the day’s 120 members and guests were in no hurry to leave.

“Look at these guys,” he said. “They’re having the time of their lives. They’ve got the America’s Cup.”

His smiling eyes filled with tears.

“Right now, we’re running with it,” Bajurin said. “We’re having a good time. If we lose, yeah, we’ll be sad. But we’ll always be part of history.”

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This private club venue is a delight for the eyes as well as the palate. Diners sit up on the second floor and can gaze out to see the islands, the Golden Gate Bridge, Saucelito beyond and can gaze down upon the beautiful yachts. Such a treat. The service is excellent, the food and drinks delicious and there is a delightful menu for children. The dining room and facilities are sparkling clean. I cannot speak to the cost of the food or drinks because, as guests, we were not shown the tab. The atmosphere is friendly and classy which is not always the case in private clubs. We have been to the Golden Gate Yacht Club numerous times for tango dancing and I cannot overstate what a pleasure those evening were. .

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This is for people who already have their own boats and it's for networking and socializing. It's not for sailing lessons or taking out boats if you don't own. I can tell you this.

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Golden Gate Yacht Club lives in the shadows of the St. Francis YC, but ever since Larry Ellison joined the club and annointed it as the challenge club of the record for the America Cup, the GGYC has been on a resurgence. I've only stopped by here a couple of times and ate here once. But it seems to be a nice club and friendly. Food review: Acceptable. Dine here for the fellowship - you want ambiance and fine cuisine, go up the jetty to the St.FYC for chris sake...

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Jim, the GM, is a righteous and so is the ginger bartender. Sorry for everything, fellas. Peace and Love!

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My friend had her wedding reception here this past weekend and I thought it was a great venue. Sweeping view of the bay, friendly staff, interesting location (a bit difficult to locate), and food wasn't too bad. Hors d'oeuvres: two kinds of hummus, pita, shrimp cocktail, and bruschetta. Dinner: beef, chicken and salmon skewers, cilantro rice, mashed potatoes (tasted like boxed potatoes), olive tapenade with polenta, two kinds of salads, fruit skewers. The only thing on my plate that I couldn't stomach was the olive tapenade with polenta. Wow. That just did not blend well in my mouth. It got pretty stuffy upstairs, but once the windows were opened and the bay breeze came in, it was really comfortable. It's a great place to have an event like a wedding reception or maybe some kind of reunion type shindig. Mellow and pretty.

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There are several club boats available for use: dingies, and two small keel boats. And, club sails on Sundays!

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I volunteered here for a Toys for Tots fundraiser. What a great old school yacht club! The attendees and the staff were all nice people. Beautiful views and really comfy feeling. I poured a drink for Larry Ellison but I didnt recognize him right away. I thought he looked like one of the Baldwin brothers. Love the old black and white pics of the Commodores, dudes look like studs. Maybe someday I'll get one of those little Italian boats with a steering wheel and a cool Captains hat. I hereby announce that I would like to be a member.

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Lovely location with amazing views of the Golden Gate and the city. Very friendly staff. Sunday brunch is perfect.

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The premises are delightful. The people fairly nice. If you're thinking of this place for your kids to sail, look elsewhere if you can afford it. The program is unorganized. The volunteer team tasked with the program is untrained and incompetent.

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for my brother's wedding reception, it was held here. Amazing crew that worked here. Very helpful and friendly. The views were UH-MAZING! perfect view of the golden gate bridge and alcatraz. The food served was just as amazing. No one can match this wedding reception.

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The cost of an annual yacht club membership can vary widely depending on several factors, such as the location of the club, the amenities offered, the exclusivity of the membership, and the size of the yacht being accommodated. We’ve compiled a set of guidelines below to help you estimate what you can expect to pay for an annual yacht club membership.

Local or Less Exclusive Yacht Clubs

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These clubs might offer basic amenities such as docking facilities, a clubhouse, and some social events. Annual fees can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Membership fees could be as low as $500 to $2,000 per year.

Mid-Range Yacht Clubs:

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These clubs may offer more extensive amenities, including high-quality dining facilities, repair and maintenance services, fitness centers, and a busy calendar of social and boating activities. Annual fees for these clubs can range from $3,000 to $10,000 or more.

Prestigious or Exclusive Yacht Clubs

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The most exclusive yacht clubs, often located in prime locations with extensive facilities and services, can have annual membership fees that are significantly higher. These can range from $10,000 to $30,000 or more per year, with some of the most elite clubs costing even more. Additionally, these clubs might have initiation fees that can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It’s also important to note that many yacht clubs have additional costs beyond the annual membership dues. These can include initiation fees for new members, monthly minimum spending requirements at the club’s facilities, and additional fees for docking, storage, and maintenance services.

Additional Considerations

Some yacht clubs require yacht ownership as a prerequisite before being accepted into the club. Hence, while the yacht club membership itself might only be between $500 and $2,000, the true price of a yacht club membership might be tied to the cost of ownership of your yacht as well.

Bottom Line: Simply Ask If Interested

If you’re interested in joining a yacht club, make a list of yacht clubs that you might be interested in joining, and reach out to them via email or phone to get the most accurate and up-to-date information. Most yacht club members are quite friendly and are willing to help those who are interested in joining.

We wish you good luck in your yacht club search, and hope that you were able to find this article helpful.

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• Owns a boat when joining SGYC • Has full use of the club facilities and can participate in all club events and activities • Has use of the club’s Fun and Fitness Fleet of bicycles, paddle boards, rowboat, kayaks & the SilverGater runabout • Enjoys voting rights • Can be listed on the slip waiting list • Can be assigned a slip or dry storage space, if available • May serve as an officer, director or committee member • Can sign for food and beverages • May use the Club ballroom for private parties

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Flag/Joint Flag: Must own a yacht; may vote; may serve as an officer; director or committee member; may be on the slip waiting list; may be assigned one slip or dry storage space (subject to availability); has full privileges to use club for social purposes.

Jr. Flag/Joint Jr. Flag: Shall have an appropriate interest in yachting; may be on the slip waiting list; may serve as a committee member; has full privileges to use club for social purposes. Associate: Shall have an appropriate interest in yachting; may serve as a committee member; has full privileges to use club for social purposes.

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$11,000 Today, the club hosts sailing championships and international races. New members, older than 40, pay an initiation fee of $11,000. Annual dues vary, but may reach about $1,900 . Members must spend at least $150 in the clubhouse, perhaps on dinner and drinks, every three months.

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What year was the Annapolis Yacht Club founded?

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How much does it cost to join the Detroit yacht club?

Answered by Marvin Ayala

I used to be a member of the Detroit Yacht Club (DYC), and I can share my personal experience regarding the cost of joining. The DYC offers different membership options, depending on whether you are a boating member or a non-boating social member.

For boating members, the cost is $390 per month. This fee covers the privilege of docking your boat at the club, but it does not include the annual cost of the boat slip. The annual cost of the boat slip varies depending on the size of your boat and the location of the slip within the marina. This additional cost can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars per year.

On the other hand, non-boating social members who are over the age of 35 pay a slightly lower fee of $365 per month. This membership type does not include the privilege of docking a boat at the club.

It is worth noting that these fees are subject to change, so it is always best to contact the Detroit Yacht Club directly for the most up-to-date information on membership costs.

Joining the Detroit Yacht Club as a boating member can cost $390 per month, plus the annual cost of the boat slip. Non-boating social members over the age of 35 pay a slightly lower fee of $365 per month.

Golden Gate Yacht Club

Golden Gate Yacht Club

A premier San Francisco venue for weddings, corporate events and team gatherings, birthdays, memorial services, and more.

1 Yacht Road, San Francisco, CA 94123

Capacity: 100 seated 125 standing

Email [email protected] for inquires

*Available for members and non-members*

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The America’s Cup Room

The America’s Cup Room is situated on the second floor of the Golden Gate Yacht Club, and enjoys spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and the sweeping panoramic San Francisco Bay. Our two outdoor decks provide breathtaking viewsof the San Francisco cityscape, including Salesforce Tower and the Bay Bridge.

The room is elegant and welcoming with beautiful Brazilian teak floors, a hand-laid stone fireplace, and floor to ceiling windows looking out onto the Bay. Your guests will enjoy beverages from our full bar while taking in the views of the surrounding San Francisco Marina and Palace of Fine Arts. The space includes a fully equipped, state of the art sound system, with multiple screens for slideshows and presentations. The unique location and luxurious ambiance of our America’s Cup Room will provide the perfect setting for an exquisite experience to remember.

There is free public parking in the large parking lot prior to the Golden Gate Yacht Club, near the stone lighthouse.

Floor to Ceiling Windows Scenic Views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay Outdoor Deck Space Wi-Fi AV and Presentation Equipment Set Up and Breakdown Planning & Event Staff Tables, Chairs, Fresh Linens Fully Wheelchair Accessible Available Seven Days A Week

Transient slip reservations are available to members of GGYC and members of reciprocal clubs. All persons interested in reserving a GGYC slip should email GGYC Slip Reservations .

3x 50ft Slips

2x 30ft Slips

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