Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club

The Club has a proud and storied past as one of the premier Yacht Clubs on the East Coast and dates back to its formation in 1947 when Sidney Banks invited P F Murray and W H Terry to organize the new activity thus instigating the change of the Club’s name to Cavalier Yacht and Country Club with activities beginning in the summer of 1948 when the Club sponsored sailing races and held its first cruise to Urbanna in which seven boats participated. The Club has grown its docks and capacity over the years starting with a ten by forty foot float, followed by a pier with ten slips constructed of untreated hard woods taken from the property – which in turn was replaced a few years later when the Beach Canal was opened and interest had soared. A second dock of 180 feet was constructed in 1951 with a pier at the end…and by 1997 the Club offered 85 slips on three piers but continued to maintain a wait list and in the summer of 2004 installed two sets of floating docks at the end of the North and East Piers taking the capacity to 100 slips.