Great Pond Yacht Club

Belgrade Lakes, Maine

The Great Pond Yacht Club was founded in 2011 with a mission to spread the love of sailing on Great Pond in the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine. We cater to sailors of all levels and encourage everyone to join us, absolutely no experience is necessary! As a club, we focus on fostering light-hearted competition in a fun and welcoming environment for sailors of all abilities. We offer sail training for children and adults. We host a series of races throughout the season, complete with a club championship. And we offer lots of opportunities to gather together to swap stories over a cocktail or two. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, we’d love to have you! All you need to do is follow the directions on the membership application page, and we’ll get you registered. If you’re not sure, or you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us or stop by our next event to say hi! We’ll see you on the lake.

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Our Races

WItkin Cup

Rasta Race

Milfoil Regatta

Hurricane Cup

Commodore's Cup

Learn to Sail

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Learn to Sail

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Junior Sailing

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Women's Only

Socialize with Friends

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What’s New?

2024 Youth Sailing Winter Update

The future of youth sailing on Great Pond is in our hands. SailMaine will be ending their support for satellite youth sailing programs and ours is the last one. See below how the GPYC is looking to take on this challenge!SailMaine used to have a half dozen or more...

2024 Technology Update

Dear Members, This winter there were some major technology migrations. There were challenges and more may be discovered but I think the worst is behind us. Our website was generously hosted Jonathan Dioli for many years. It was time for us to move this into a GPYC...

2018 Milfoil Cup

Bursting through the surface, water flowing over my forehead and eyes, rapidly gulping in some fresh air then realizing there was a unique calm in this tight little world. An atmosphere barely higher than the size of a human head squeezed between a rounded...