The Algoa Bay Yacht Club was established on 14 September 1959 and currently has around 245 members.

[1][2] The ABYC Founder Members were Paddy Goodall, Scotty Pearson, Mike Morgan, Harold Kohler, Charles Allen, Graham Packer, Jerry Cullum, and Stompie Macdonald.

ABYC incorporates the Zwartkops Yacht Club, which was previously named the Beaconsfield Yacht Club and established in 1884 on the Zwartkops River.

The cross on the ABYC pennant commemorates the wooden cross erected in Algoa Bay by the first European sailor to discover it, Bartolomeu Dias, on 12 March 1488.

ABYC hosts local, regional, national, and international sailing regattas.