The Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club (CLYC) is a private yacht club located in Lakewood, New York, on the south shore of Chautauqua Lake.

The club was a powerhouse of the Snipe International Class, and still holds number 124 in the listing of Snipe fleets around the world.

[1] In that class, CLYC hosted the world championship in 1946, the North Americans in 1979,[2][3] and the Nationals in 1949, 1958 and 1966, while producing two SCIRA Commodores: Harold Griffith (1949) and Edward "Red" Garfield (1960).

CLYC is now home of the following fleets: Leslie Larson won the 1959 Snipe Junior National Championship along with his crew, Jim Lenna,[4] and the National Championship in 1962 with his father Victor Larson (who had been second himself in 1946).

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