Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club

BHYC is an outstanding Yacht Club with one of the best, most protected mooring fields on the coast of Maine. It has an outstanding restaurant, great sailing programs for kids and adults, and is a wonderful gathering place for boaters of all ages!

BHY was everything you would expect a traditional yacht club to be. Launch service was prompt, the dining room served a delicious meal, club personnel were helpful and members were cordial to visitors. We enjoyed our stay there.

We enjoyed our two night stay on a mooring at the BHYC. The launch came out to greet us. All of the launch drivers were friendly, helpful and informative. We ate both dinners in the clubhouse. There was plenty of choice and everything we had was delicious. The manager and staff were friendly, professional and made us feel very welcome. The showers, restrooms and laundry were very clean. We highly recommend a stay here!

Friendly and hospitable staff Great location Excellent dining

Awesome. Very professional and friendly. What a YC should be!

Friendly yacht club, perfect location, solid mooring balls.

The Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club deserves an outstanding rating. The club members are friendly; the setting is gorgeous; the very patrician launch man Tim showed us to the mooring and gave us information about the club. We had a very tasty meal and the club included us in the bimonthly educational lecture. We will definitely try to stay a night here next year.

Peter the dock master could not have been any accommodating and gracious. The dock was a bit old but the cleats were well secured. The bathrooms/showers could use a major freshening up. Including the removal of the coin operated showers.

Very friendly members and staff.

It was fantastic. Tim was the most accommodating dockmaster we have ever met. We had a great stay. Thanks

Great service in a very friendly yacht club. We rented a mooring, went ashore for showers and a late afternoon drink at the bar, and found everyone without fail to be personable and chatty. Lovely place to stay.

Very friendly and helpful team at the club. Good moorings for bigger boats - up to 60 ft - and not as cramped as many mooring fields are; lots of swing room on the bigger balls. Quieter than the East side of the harbour with far less passing traffic and tour boats, and town still only a 5 -10 minute dinghy ride away. Only minor criticism is that the balls are numbered with quite small tags - numbers are impossible to see unless you are on top of the ball. Call and ask for directions to your allocated ball, or for the yacht club launch to guide you to it (which they did for us when they saw us wandering around looking lost!). Would definitely come back.

Wonderful visit!! Very hospitable club .

Perfect friendly reception!

The Club did a great job. The fact the launch driver came out to meet us, without being asked was a nice treat

We have visited many times...always great!

We always enjoy staying at the BHYC.

A delightful club with a welcoming staff in a beautiful location.

Absolutely the best experience. Friendly and a fantastic club, welcomed in and felt at home immediately.

Had lunch upon arrival - quite nice. All guest moorings are very exposed, with lots of roll on S, SE , W WINDS. Not good.

Friendly. Excellent food and conversation!

Very friendly staff, and the club members were also friendly and inviting. Facilities include a bathroom, a nice dock to tie up to if desired, a tender with very responsive drivers, and parking for your car, if needed. We were there for sailing lessons. Great overall experience.

A nice welcoming yacht club

We didn't partake of any amenities but the mooring did a fine job of keeping our boat in place. Rodney, the launch driver, was terrific. He made sure we knew where to tie up our dinghy and informed us of all the intricacies of the club. We'd go back again.

Nice as always. Great staff. All friendly and helpful

Easy online booking. Clear directions to find our mooring. Nice launch driver.

good mooring, great launch service, until sunset, and the food and hospitality at the Club were terrific Jeff on Pamet

The mooring there are always first class. Well maintained with a nice big long pendant. Launch driver showed me right to my spot. MV Dauntless. 60 foot trawler 54 tons

Excellent as usual, stay here every other year. Had lunch at the restaurant for the first time, was excellent and nice atmosphere.

Wonderful launch driver ( retired Math PhD). Nice bathroom facilities

Our mooring was ready when we arrived. The friendly staff would have guided us to rhe mooring but it was easy to find. Overall a good experience.

Very attractive harbor, friendly staff, attractive club, great food, showers.

Fantastic, really nice and friendly people. Yacht Club with style and substance

Very quiet anchorage area.

The launch driver Rodney is a great guy, came right out to help us find our mooring and was prompt and friendly when we needed a ride in. The facility is clean and well maintained.

They didn’t have any record that we reserved and paid for the mooring. They didn’t believe me when I showed the receipt, but allowed us to stay overnight.

Very pleasant stay due to helpful dock attendant and nice dinner at the club

We were confused as to the location of the club and were guided in once we were in the right area. Everyone was so friendly and helpful. Beautiful and quiet location.

This is a very welcoming yacht club

Excellent! Wonderful facility. Secure moorings. Dock master came out to direct us to the proper mooring. Nice dinghy ride across the harbor to town.

Great stay, wonderful service, great club!

We had a great time. Launch service was excellent as was the food and bar. Looking forward to our next visit.

Love this yacht club so much we came for one night and stayed for four. We will return!

Very pleasant dock staff great facilities

Excellent staff and beautiful club.

We contacted by radio as directed. “ I’m busy right now, I’ll check when I’m finished”. After 15 minutes he came out in the launch looking at moorings until he finally pointed at one for us to take. It appeared he had no idea we were coming and no idea what he had available. We tried calling on the telephone but the stewards line was always unavailable.

This is a delightful spot to enjoy a mooring. The mooring field is nicely protected from the prevailing southwesterlies and from the hustle and bustle of downtown BH, yet it is a short dinghy ride into town. The restaurant is great too, staff and management are very friendly. Great walking area. If you have time, a short cab ride to the Botanical Gardens is a nice adventure.

Great stay, Beautiful neck of the woods

They responded quickly yo a last minute request for a mooring. Their tender showed us where it was. Didn’t initially see the small round numbered disc. Nice roomy guest mooring at the outside of their mooring field. Great spot!

BBHYC is a very welcoming place. It’s so kind of them to provide access to their facilities and launch. Showers always a great part of the stay.

Excellent! Highly recommend it. And had a great meal at the Club with some new friends. Lot of fun! And met up with some old friends in the mooring field.

Nice facility with a launch, restaurant and showers. We were here for a storm so things were closed down. It is about 1.3 miles from town which is walkable with a small sidewalk but a little far from the grocery store (1.6 miles) It is located in a nice quiet area of West Boothbay away from all the touristy things. Will return again!

Great launch service and showers. Rental moorings are on the outer edge of the mooring field and would be rough in a strong S’ly.

Great club and launch service. Had dinner at the Club last night and it was very good.

Took a large mooring at outside edge of mooring field. One long think pennant with tiny barnacles on it so I wore gloves. Pennant was long and easy to get on deck and put our dock lines on. It is so protected in there, we were just hanging in the water, not pulling the lines in the am. Less than a mile to the foot bridge dinghy dock and town. Recommended. We are a 54 ft sailboat

The members and staff were wonderfully welcoming. Five of us had dinner at the BHYC and the meal was terrific. Many members including the next Commodore came up to greet us. We hope to be back next year with a bigger group!! Thanks, Peter Driscoll , Michael Mariner and Peter Holmes.

The facilities are great, the harbormaster was very good, helpful and very responsive. The mooring we had was on the outer edge of the field and we experienced an uncomfortable few hours on each change of tide when the current and swell did not play nicely. There were a couple of larger yachts anchored off using flopper stoppers for that reason. Great area to provision. Update. The moorings and stay were disappointing. The first mooring we were directed to the Mooring line was covered in barnacles. Picked that up shut down and settled and was then a directed to a heavier mooring but further out. This line too was covered in barnacles. We could have gone a further 100’ and anchored. The mooring is way out and exposed to the South. We deployed flopper stoppers to mitigate some of the roll. Without some serious stabilization tackle the moorings would be be untenable. Cell service is marginal. Restaurants and shops are at the far side of the harbor.

We came in, caught a ball, and left the next morning. The service was very friendly, but we didn’t have a chance to use any of the amenities. The only reason I didn’t give a five was because our experience was so limited.

Nice yacht club. Pretty quiet this year , as one would expect

BHYC steward Paul was very helpful and the mooring was well protected.

Rather disappointing. Saw launch operator for3 seconds and that was it. Dolphin marina was far more welcoming and they provide muffins and coffee in the am cheaper.

It a nice quite area, close to Boothbay waterfront but not too close. The yacht club staff are very nice

Excellent - beautiful harbour and great yacht club and harbourmaster!

So nice we’re staying another night.

We love BHYC, a quiet protected location in the harbor. A beautiful YC with good facilities for cruising sailors. Very welcoming, and a restaurant open to transient sailors. Except of coursr during YC events.

Very friendly and convenient! Can get fuel nearby. Easy launch service and nice walk to town.

Responsive dock staff and excellent dinner at club. Quiet part of otherwise busy harbor.

Fret location enjoyed the launch driver Ron! The BHYC provides a nice stop over for transient vessels. Thank you for the hot shower!

Used a mooring and had no issues. The location is very exposed to wave action in the harbor and we rolled quite a bit during our stay. Easy access to town using our tender and a good public dock available in town. Actually one of the best WiFi connections we have had.

BHYC staff very courteous and accommodating. Their chef is excellent! Highly recommend mooring at BHYC!

Friendliest Club we have ever visited. Great location a little bit away from town. Very easy dinghy ride to shopping and dining.

Friendly and helpful, hats off to the steward!