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The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race

Elizabeth River Project

Student Leadership Program

Town Point Yacht Club was founded in 1991 by Captain Lane Briggs, primarily to co-sponsor the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race and to provide hospitality to visiting Tall Ships.In keeping with the Captain Briggs' unique personality, Town Point Yacht Club is not your ordinary yacht Club.

For starters, Town Point Yacht Club has no clubhouse, or any facility for that matter. Secondly, a large proportion of our members don't own boats. What TPYC does have is a group of dedicated members with a keen interest in boating, the waterways, the environment and the rich maritime heritage of Norfolk and the entire Hampton Roads area.

Town Point Yacht Club's philosophy is to promote these interests through education, sponsorship, ambassadorship, preservation, and entertainment. Basically, we are a volunteer service organization with boating interests. Town Point Yacht Club's efforts to satisfy this philosophy include continued support of the great Chesapeake Schooner Race and raising funds to support the Elizabeth River Project, The Schooner Virginia, and the Old Dominion Sailing Team.

Tall Ships calling on Hampton Roads traditionally are greeted by a TPYC member with a welcome basket and perhaps an invitation to attend an evening of sea shanties at the Rebel Marina. These welcome baskets may well contain a pineapple, the symbol of Town Point Yacht Club, and its official burgee. It was chosen because, long ago, the pineapple was a symbol of hospitality among mariners around the world. When a sailor returned home with a pineapple, it was impaled on the front gate as a sign that hospitality was extended to one and all. Typical of sailors, then and now, homecoming was a good excuse to celebrate. The pineapple seems a fitting symbol for Town Point Yacht Club and a great reminder of Captain Lane Briggs' relentless hospitality at Rebel Marina.