Vanguard 15 Clubs

National Class Association

West Coast

Vanguard 15 Fleet 53 — San Francisco Bay

  • Location: San Francisco, CA (based at Treasure Island Sailing Center)
  • Website: vanguard15.org
  • Facebook: SFV15 Facebook
  • One of the largest and most active one-design fleets in the country — weekly fleet and team racing April through September, a winter series at Alameda Community Sailing Center, and the traveling Championship Series.

Treasure Island Sailing Center

Alameda Community Sailing Center

  • Location: Alameda, CA
  • Website: sailalameda.org
  • Hosts Fleet 53's winter series and team races on the Alameda Estuary.

Inverness Yacht Club

  • Location: Inverness, CA (Tomales Bay)
  • Website: invernessyachtclub.com
  • Hosted the 2024 Pacific Coast Championship / V15 Nationals.

Fresno Yacht Club

  • Location: Huntington Lake, CA
  • Website: fresnoyachtclub.org
  • Hosts the annual High Sierra Regatta each July.

Willamette Sailing Club

Seattle Yacht Club

  • Location: Seattle, WA
  • Website: seattleyachtclub.org
  • Maintains a 13-boat V15 fleet for adult instruction and racing.

East Coast

Connetquot River Dinghy Club

V15s racing on the Connetquot River CRDC sailors in drysuits Snowy CRDC boatyard

Larchmont Yacht Club

Midwest & South

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club — Fleet 67

  • Location: Chicago, IL
  • Website: corinthian.org
  • Fleet page: Fleet 67
  • Thursday evening racing mid-May through late September, plus Saturday morning fall frostbiting through Thanksgiving.

Lake Norman Yacht Club

  • Location: Mooresville, NC
  • Website: lakenormanyc.org
  • Hosted the 2023 V15 Nationals.

Harbor Island Yacht Club

  • Location: Hermitage, TN
  • Website: hiyc.org

Percy Priest Yacht Club