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The Golden Gate Yacht Club ( GGYC) is a yacht club based in San Francisco, California, the United States. Founded in 1939, the GGYC is the home port of Oracle Team USA, the winners of the 2010 and 2013 America's Cup yacht racing competition
GGYC is a popular cruise and boat racing venue on the San Francisco waterfront. The club is located on the jetty directly east of the St. Francis Yacht Club and north of the Marina Green, at the end of Yacht Road. The most well-known of current members is Oracle Corporation founder Larry Ellison.
The Club entered the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup, the America's Cup challenger selection series, represented by the BMW Oracle Racing team. BMW Oracle Racing were eliminated in the semi-finals. The team challenged for the America's Cup in 2010 and won a Deed of Gift match 2–0 against the Société Nautique de Genève's (SNG) Alinghi team, making GGYC the first American yacht club to hold the cup since 1995.
America's Cup Management announced on July 5, 2007 that the protocol for the 33rd America's Cup had been agreed between the Defending yacht club, SNG, and its Challenger of Record, the Club Náutico Español de Vela of Spain. GGYC sued, successfully arguing that Club Náutico Español de Vela was not a valid challenger. The challenge was upheld, and BMW Oracle Racing sailed against Alinghi in February 2010 in Valencia, Spain. The competing boats, Alinghi 5 and USA 17 were both 90-foot multihulls. The rigid wing sail of USA 17 provided a decisive advantage and GGYC won the 2010 America's Cup by a considerable margin.
GGYC successfully defended their title at the 34th America's Cup in San Francisco in 2013, but finally lost the trophy in the 35th edition against the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
| + !Name !Years served | |
| Jim Flaherty | 2025 – present |
| Maurice Quillen | 2022 – 2024 |
| Leslie Lacopi | 2019 - 2022 |
| Norbert Bajurin | 2010 - 2018 |
| Marcus Young | 2007 - 2010 |
| David Haskin | 2005 - 2006 |
| Ned Barrett | 2003 - 2004 |
| Norbert Bajurin | 2001 - 2002 |
| Linda Pierce | 2000 |
| Mary Sancimino | 1999 |
| Nancy Wesley | 1998 |
| Joseph Bambara | 1997 |
| Michael McGlothlin | 1996 |
| Michael Hobson | 1995 |
| Jim Brennan | 1994 |
| Chuck Pierce | 1993 |
| Karen McManus | 1991 - 1992 |
| Douglas Carroll | 1990 |
| Hans Randrup | 1989 |
| Oral Moore | 1988 |
| Cal Person | 1987 |
| Dana Pettengill | 1986 |
| Gordon Engel | 1985 |
| Bud Fuller | 1984 |
| Dave Miller | 1983 |
| Jeff Litke | 1982 |
| Dean Collins | 1981 |
| John Kenny | 1980 |
| Mike Mann | 1979 |
| Ralph Lewis | 1978 |
| Roy Koski, D.M.D. | 1977 |
| Louis Rossi | 1976 |
| John Roveda | 1975 |
| William Dodge | 1974 |
| Ed Nylund | 1973 |
| Roy C. Berner | 1972 |
| Anthony G.Vlantis | 1971 |
| Wes Smith | 1970 |
| Bruce Paulk | 1969 |
| Wally Solloway | 1968 |
| Cliff Melder | 1967 |
| Douglas C. Carroll | 1966 |
| Richard Carroll | 1965 |
| Walter Vendetti | 1964 |
| James Heatlie | 1963 |
| Harry Lieberman | 1962 |
| John Benone | 1961 |
| Kenneth Carlson | 1960 |
| Leo Cone | 1959 |
| Dan Regan | 1958 |
| Ray Carpenter | 1957 |
| Bob Kelly | 1956 |
| Otto Bueren | 1955 |
| Max Koch | 1954 |
| Len Fleischman | 1953 |
| Max Williams | 1952 |
| Manuel Fagundes | 1951 |
| Jeff Capell | 1950 |
| Paul Dember | 1948 - 1949 |
| W. Muggenthaler | 1947 |
| W.H. Capell | 1946 |
| J. Arvid Johnson | 1945 |
| Robert A. Davies | 1944 |
| H. McMullen | 1943 |
| H.A. Livingston | 1942 |
| Bud Schaffnit | 1941 |
| H.P McKean | 1940 |
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