Lauderdale Yacht Club is a private yacht club located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (United States).

[3] LYC is one of the six founding members of the Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC),[4] being the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, Miami Yacht Club, Coral Reef Yacht Club, Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and Nassau Yacht Club the other five.

[5] LYC and SORC runs five Regattas today, together with the Storm Trysail Club, the Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race.

[6] LYC hosts annually the Ron Payne Memorial Regatta in the Snipe class after renaming the annual former Snipe Ocean Regatta in 2004 to honor active member of the Snipe Class and the Lauderdale Yacht Club Ronald Bruce Payne.

[7] Anna Tunnicliffe,[8] Annie Haeger, Briana Provancha, Steve Benjamin, Peter Commette and Max Agnese are LYC members.