Balboa Yacht Club

[1] The facility has a main dining room and outdoor seating, and a pavilion equipped with a barbecue and snack bar.

Facilities include a junior clubhouse, tool room, Sabot and Laser storage spaces, sail and boat wash areas crane and launching ramp.

[5] The Governor's Cup[7] is a youth match racing sailing regatta held annually by the Balboa Yacht Club.

The regatta was established in 1967 when the then California Governor Ronald Reagan donated the cup to Chet and Glee Purcell.

Reagan declared the cup be "for the purpose of encouraging Youth Racing in the State of California and the recognition of the skill and high performance of those men and women under twenty years of age," which agreed with vision the Mr. and Mrs. Purcell shared.

The show is similar to the Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance with vintage wooden power boats and sailboats.

The Balboa Yacht Club
Balboa Yacht Club clubhouse
Balboa Yacht Club, 2012
Beer can yachts at the start of a race
BYC Governors Cup, July 18, 2014
Governor's Cup racers
Governor's Cup 21 'Calypso', used for match race training at BYC.