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As we plan for 2019 we need to revisit our services and our mission for Commonwealth Yacht Club. Your input about our direction is key to the future of our club. We therefore ask that you take a few minutes to complete the attached survey so that your views about our club and the services we provide can be utilized to best serve you and the other members of the club.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to help us with this survey. Sharing your thoughts and desires will help us…

Pick Your Poison this SATURDAY!

Specialty spooktacular menu for the Halloween Bash!

{regular menu will also be available}…

Saturday, October 13th, 2018

After a day of enjoying the Hunter's Moon Festival in Grand Rivers, come out and enjoy a nice dinner and Reggie LaFaye romancing the Sax. Doors open at 5pm, Reggie plays at 6.…

Saturday, August 25th at 7pm.

Come out to see Green Turtle Bay's house band, 37 Degrees North. Be sure to wear your dancin' shoes, as this band jams out to your favorite tunes!…

WAKE UP SAILING FANS! The Spring Sailing Series is “just around the corner!” The first race is on the calendar for April 28…just around the next couple of corners. To help pass the time, here is a list of the top ten things overheard while racing the CYC Sailing Series:

10. “You had better bring your A-GAME; I’ve got my racing sail on!” Someone always has to talk smack.
11. “Where’s the mark?” The CYC Sailing Series uses existing marks on the lake. They can…

We made it through January and for most of us, it’s only around 6 weeks to boating season, or less, depending on what Mother Nature dishes out to us.  Although still turtle neck and wool sock weather here in the Midwest, we are gaining around 2 ½ minutes of daylight every day in February.  Spring officially begins with the Spring Equinox on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, this event marks the astronomical first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.  I say Bring on the Sunshine, it just makes us…

Warmest Season’s Greetings to you all! I am Sharla Sparks, the newly elected Commodore of the Commonwealth Yacht Club. What an honor to be asked to serve in such a manner!

I would like to send out an official THANK YOU to everyone who served the Commonwealth Yacht Club this past year. It takes a lot of energy and dedication from the officers, directors, and members of the club to make such great activities happen, and this year was no exception.…

Here we are, November, already.  Where did summer go?  Even though we are officially in Fall season, there is still boating time left in November.  Every year at this time I feel mixed emotions, already missing our warm summer temperatures but looking forward to winter months plus getting sentimental missing all our boating “snow bird” friends who are fleeing the cold winter here for warmer temperature south.

Be sure not to miss nature’s…

CYC OCTOBER 2017 NAUTINEWS ARTICLE

Summer 2017 has ended way too fast, but another wonderful season, Fall or Autumn is upon us as the fall equinox was September 22, 2017.  Winter Solstice is not until December 21, so we are good to go with boating for a couple more months.  For most of us boating is no way over, enjoying the cool days and cooler nights in the fall and early winter, out on the lake is…