Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club

CCYC was founded on a Sunday in October of 1934, when the gaff rigged schooner GAVIOTA sailed into the new harbor at Montrose. She was from New England where she had been built for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt's great affection for the sea in the context of an era dominated by the Great Depression and two world wars. While some criticized Roosevelt for taking too many seagoing trips-he logged hundreds of thousands of miles at sea and was sometimes out of touch with the White House and the... more