Our
28th season as an attractive alternative
to
slips and Yacht Club memberships!
| New York Sailing
Center & Yacht Club offers summer mooring memberships with
launch service - something we've been doing for 28 years. Members
get spoiled by reliable launch service and low Membership fees: only $35
per foot with no initiation or assessments. We combine the best attributes
of a marina and a club, with all the practical amenities at surprisingly
low rates.
Compare rates, access, ease of departure/return,
convenience/beauty/shelter of anchorage to other options. We look
pretty good, especially with slips easily costing $120 per foot or more! |
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...and you
won't have to wait up to an HOUR for a pick-up!
(based
on recently overheard horror stories from other clubs)
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One of our launches about to ship out.
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| In 2007,
NY Sailing moved. We're
at Consolidated Yachts, a premier City Island facility and one of
the finest yards in the region. This has resulted in improved services
to our customers. Consolidated is on the east side of the Island,
as we have been, but at the south end. This gets the fleet out of
the way of Northeasters and improves our already excellent access to the
Sound. In fact, we are protected from more directions than any other
fleet, and are closest to the Sound - you can't get any closer without
being on it!
Consolidated Yachts has been handed down
through several generations of the Rodstrom family with a partner here
and there along the way. It's a large yard, but the owners don't
't try to haul more boats than they can effectively handle for winter storage.
With two Travelifts, Consolidated can haul the smallest boat in our fleet
(Montgomery 17, which has stayed there), and can haul yachts to almost
80 feet at the other extreme. It's a full service yard that can handle
anything one might need to do to a boat. There is an on-site rigger
(the same NY Sailing has traditionally used), a shipwright, and one partner
is an excellent mechanic and oversees engine work and installations.
Consolidated has multi-stall bathrooms,
showers, and great slips that are not crowded together. There is
a pilot vessel stationed there, adding a little commercial flavor and history
(pilot vessels for East River transits have been stationed at City Island
since the 1800's). It is literally across the street from the bus,
and a block from Island Cafe, a great little breakfast and lunch eatery.
NY Sailing has its own headquarters right
on City Island Avenue, with our own entrance and parking. The
bathrooms and showers are near our building. Of course, our Sailing
School is headquartered here, too, and club members enjoy 10% off certification
courses from Learn to Sail (Basic Keelboat) through Bareboat, Navigation,
etc.
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Cropped view of the fleet. One of our Beneteau First 21.0 training
sloops is on the left, and the double-spreader rig is an Islander 36.
-view from our old digs
at Minneford Avenue. |
| Our primary launch is a very stable and
spacious 23' Carolina Skiff Semi-V. It's unsinkable.
It's also very quiet, driven by a 4-stroke, high thrust Yamaha engine instead
of a loud, smokey diesel inboard. (Yes, we have one of those bathtub
boats, as evidenced in the older picture to your left, but we've enjoyed
the C-skiff so much we never got around to overhauling the Perkins-driven
Bathtub.) Our secondary launch is a 10-foot Zodiac inflatable that
is safe and stable for up to 5 people (CG limit), but can plane with two.
Our boats are moored right off the yard, so we get you in and out very
quickly. Launch operators will often be stationed right on Consolidated's
barrier barge, with a direct view (and VHF signal) of the fleet, making
for even better service than our customers are used to already.
We monitor VHF 69 for launch service and
transients. No feeble bleating of horns! (Yes, at least one
yard still relies on that.) As a backup, we take cell phone calls.
(Not a substitute: VHF is very important from a safety standpoint.)
Launch service runs 7 days, with evening
hours on Wednesday, Friday, Weekends and holidays.
If you're starting early or running late,
you can borrow a dinghy from the dock - both are very stable and have engines!
Members can tie up at our slip briefly
by pernission, weather and room permitting, for using water, electric,
and shore power. There is sufficient depth around the tide, an improvement
over our prior yard. |
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A sloop at dusk, southwest of City Island in Eastchseter Bay, with
some recognizable elements of the Manhattan skyline.
Membership includes the following services
and privileges...
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Launch Service
(click
for schedule)
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Parking
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Bathrooms & Showers
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Dinghies for after-hour use
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brief tie-ups at our slip for water, electric,
etc.
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24-hour access
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10% discount on most Sailing School courses
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...and the following necessities are just
around the corner or walking distance:
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Delicatessens & Pizzeria
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Marine Chandlery & Hardware (including
a West Marine Express)
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Public Transportation
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Restaurants (Lido for dinner, Island Cafe
for everything else, are right there)
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| * Dive
Shop |
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Bait & Tackle
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Bed and Breakfast
(with weekday discounts for our members)
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DIRECTIONS
for visitors
WINTER
STORAGE
Consolidated Yachts offers winter storage
for most size vessels. If we can accomodate it on a mooring, they
can haul it. If you're interested in hauling, contact them at 718
885 1900, or stop by their office. As with many established yards,
they can fill up quickly once rates and contracts are available, so be
sure to check availability early.
YARD
SERVICES
Simple - if you need it done, they can
do it. There are some reasonable limits on do-it-yourself work.
ATTENTION
ALL ANGLERS:
We have great fishing in the Western Sound.
These species have been caught in City Island Harbor or adjacent waters,
and all but the last right from our docks:
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Striped Bass
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Fluke
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Bonito
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Blackfish
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Bluefish
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Flounder
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False Albacore
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Weakfish
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At least twice, the WICC $25,000 bluefish
contest was won by an angler fishing right in our area. A monster
blue of almost 20 pounds was weighed in at Jack's Bait & Tackle on
City Island in 1988, around the corner from our old yard. One of
our winter storage customers picked up a pair of 11-pound blackfish just
before we hauled the boat in 1998.
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