Founded on January 25, 1956, Yacht Club of Ilhabela offers a modern nautical facility and, in addition, it always provide high standards of services, leisure and fun.

Since it was found, Yacht Club of Ilhabela experienced a continuos improvement on its services and installations. Once a small yacht club with no more than a little pier on 70’s, Yacht Club of Ilhabela is now a complete nautical club that offers maintenance structure for boats up to 54 feet on shore and up to 100 feet boats at water. It also have restaurants, flats, social events as dinner parties, musical and dancing shows.

YCI also organizes the largest Brazilian and South American Sailing Event, the Ilhabela International Sailing Week, usually mid July every year with over 200 ocean sailing boats of 5 classes, 2 of them international classes (IMS and ORC CLUB); A part of this Sailing Event, YCI organizes other Sailing Championship, the Circuito Ilhabela, with 5 stages along the year, and 40 to 50 sailing boats every time.

Now a day Yacht Club of Ilhabela faces one of it’s most important challenges: getting a modern over-300-boats-floating marina.

The project, based on floating concrete structures, is being built to give Yacht Club of Ilhabela the biggest marina on the São Paulo coast.

A new club, even better, will raise soon.

Ilhabela International Sailling Week is the most important South American Ocean Sailing Event.

Every year, since 1973, on july, the most important crews and south american sindicates come to Ilhabela for a 7 day international sailing competition.

Over 200 sailing boats and almost 2300 sailors came for last edition, in 2006. It was the first time in race history that a “foreigner” sailing boat won the Event, the uruguayan IMS boat, Memo Memulini.

Ilhabela International Sailing Week, had an informal first edition, as the first optimists boats had been brought to Brazil in 1972, and the first kids sailed the small boats on Guarapiranga Dam, in São Paulo city. In 1973, his parents decided to have it’s vacation time at Ilhabela, and in july, 1973, that vacation week became the first “sailing week”. In 1974, the first official ilhabela sailing week started. Some years later, Ilhabela Sailing Week became a National Ocean Sailing Event, and since 2003 it became an International Sailing Event, listed at ISAF and ORC Events. In 2005, YCI and YCA (Yacht club of Argentina) jointly decided to restart the South American Championship of the IMS and ORC CLUB classes, and every year it brings the best Sailing Boats of these international classes from other south american countries, as well as form other important brazilian sailing cities...

The island of São Sebastião, popular known as Ilhabela (beautiful island), is the main island of the archipelago of São Sebastião. It was discovered in 1502 by Américo Vespúcio.
Ilhabela maintains 90% of its territory untouched as it became a State Park in 1977.
The biggest brazilian oceanic island is about 200 km far from São Paulo city and International São Paulo/Guarulhos Airport. It lasts 2 to 3 km from the continent, and can be accessed only by ferryboat, boats and hellicopters.
Ilhabela has an incredible variety of wild tropical animals, beautifull birds, reptiles, etc, and its sea is very reach in different kinds of marine tropical and sub-tropical species. It has beautiful beaches and many of them are accessible by boat only. Ilhabela offers an unique opportunity to meet an untouched natural beauty.

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