Thames Yacht Club

Anchorage is rolly from ferry traffic but manageable. Very friendly club member/instructor greeted us, and the dock master guided us to our mooring, which had lines prepped for easy pick up.

Sorry TYC, the ferry wakes are intolerable until 10 pm and the fishing boat wakes start at 4 am. The members at the clubhouse are quite friendly— they have to be. You pretty much have to hang out there, not on your boat.

Always a great visit ! Launch and members all great fellow boaters !

Great location. Staff was very friendly and welcoming. Mooring field was flat at night. Sometimes during the day some small rolllers come through the mooring field, but nothing to complain about. Saw a submarine heading down the river out to see. Definitely worth an Uber trip to check out the Submarine Museum.

Perfect marina with the nicest people around. We enjoyed to be there greatly.

Super flexible as I arrived unannounced.

Excellent, as always! Wonderful people. Great launch service.

Friendly club. Very helpful. Great neighborhood

Everyone was very nice.

Great stop. Nice people.

Many thanks to Thames Yacht Club. The staff was extremely flexible and allowed me to stay much longer than I initially intended. This is a very charming club with a snack bar / grill, showers, launch and a small private beach. If I lived closer, I'd definitely join and call this place home.

Delightful. Very helpful people. Down to earth.

Great club, great members . A must stop when in the area.

Friendly staff, good location, good food within easy walking distance, reasonable launch schedule

Very friendly and accommodating

Helpful staff and convenient mooring location!

The mooring was fine the greeting fine, the setting rather interesting and pretty. We did not go into the clubhouse, but passing it in the dinghy ion the way into another shore point to get dinner, but looked like a great place to visit. The problem is the mooring field is pretty exposed to several directions of wind. We caught a Northeast and it was bumpy. The passing and frequent ferries make a pretty good wake as they are going at a fair speed at that point upon entering harbor. We would go back again if the movement were not so great. Sorry.....

Very friendly staff to help with any inquiries you may have.

We stayed for two separate nights at the club and found it to be very good. The people and facilities are very nice. As noted in other reviews, the ferry traffic makes the water quite bumpy at times, but this does not continue through the night so sleeping was fine. We will stop in again when we are sailing in that direction.

Delightful stop with lovely beach and clean bathrooms and showers.

We were welcomed warmly by both members and staff. I had engine problems and was helped to get securely moored despite the inclement weather.

Very pleasant, welcoming people.

Very helpful and friendly club! Moorings were in good shape and the reception prompt & responsive. Be warned, however, that there is no harbor breakwater in New London, so if there is a South wind, it will be lumpy. Also, a stiff ferry wake at 10 past the hour from 0710 to 2110 :)

One of the friendliest clubs I’ve been in a long time. Wish I could have my boat there all the time. Looking forward to returning again soon.

Great club. Easy to pickup mooring. Very wavy due to ferry. Nice club. Sandy beach. Kid friendly. Staff and members wonderful. Easy access to activities. A great place!

Sailing Catamaran - 44' X 25' X 4' Tied up to a ball here for what we intended to be a couple of nights while we explored Mystic and took care of some logistics in Groton. Our boat was large enough to be assigned to a "tub" - a flat type of mooring ball with two painters. We have a bridle, so we just clipped our lines through both painters. Reserved easy enough on Dockwa, then hailed TCY on VHF 71 and Father Rick came out on the launch and guided us to our "tub" mooring. Easy. Once we got tied up, though, we began to experience the most violent roll and chop we've had in a mooring field (and we're in a cat! You should've seen the monohulls!). We actually had drawers that weren't locked fly out of cabinets and bottles topple off galley surfaces on frequent wakes from passing speed boats. The dinghy dock also convulses violently, so much so that they've set up a system for members - a network of lines that allows them to connect their dinghy/tender fore and aft along a line that holds them away from the structure. We cancelled the final day of our reservation and continued up Long Island Sound partly because of the weather, but partly because the motion while moored was more than we like. The folks at TYC were great! Shout out to Beth - a life-time mariner who went out of her way to ensure we had what we needed to get provisioned and get to Mystic.

Everyone was helpful we were only there one night but we will stay there on our many trips east of our yacht club in New Haven.

We left our boat here for 5 days on a mooring to wait out a storm on our trip south. Cute little yacht club, if I lived in the area I’d join in a second! Nice spot to Leave a boat unattended. It’s a bit rough in the outer mooring field, but we did not sleep on the boat so it was a non issue. Jesse, the launch Capt. was such an awesome help!!! THANK YOU Jesse for all your assistance!!

Very pleasant staff food was great from their galley. Nice beach. Great place for kids. Only issue is there is not a no wake zone. So a little bit rocky during the night