The new multipurpose clubhouse features dining rooms and lounges overlooking Sarasota Bay along with a pool and fitness center. Featuring a sail-like fabric roof with modern glass and stucco exterior, SYC’s 22,000-square-foot clubhouse has been designed to maximize the site’s waterfront setting.
With over 71 spaces of covered parking, the multi-level clubhouse provides views throughout the building, including a host of indoor-outdoor dining options, formal and informal lounges, two dance floors and an ‘honors gallery’ for yachting trophies, photographs and memorabilia. The new facility overlooks the club’s marina, which is capable of handling 100-plus vessels, including yachts up to 100 feet.
The clubhouse features a 90-foot lobby that extends throughout the building and provides a direct view of the main dock in the marina. The main lobby has a wood floor inlay inspired by a classic teak and holly ship deck and is surrounded by blue terrazzo with a compass rose medallion at each entrance.
The interiors of the club feature royal blue colors with red accents, teak woods and fixtures inspired by deck prisms that were used to illuminate ships below decks and at night.
The club is designed by Tom Denslow from DSDG, Inc. Sarasota-based Tandem Construction completed the new clubhouse in March 2010. Designed to withstand 130-mph winds, the building incorporates a host of eco-friendly features, including natural skylights, recycled materials, thick insulation and a highly efficient air-conditioning system.
Founded in 1926, SYC is one of the original 13 members of the Florida Council of Yacht Clubs.
