The Mobile Yacht Club is a private boat club and harbor which first met as a group in 1847 before establishing a physical clubhouse in the 1850s. It is located in Mobile, Alabama. The Mobile Yacht Club sponsors and participates annually in numerous Club regattas, as well as races in affiliation with the Gulf Yachting Association, of which MYC is a charter member. The club and its individual members have competed local, regional, national, and international local races including the Dauphin Island Regatta, the GYA sponsored Liptons, the Broken Triangle Race, the Around-the-Rig Regatta, and the MYC Anniversary Regatta.