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Bay Point Yacht Club, Inc.

Latitude 30 degrees 08.6N Longitude 85 degrees 43.6W

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Welcome to the Bay Point Yacht Club, Incorporated website.  Here you will find a repository of information regarding the club’s history, management structure, events, fleet schedule, and other pertinent items that collectively depict the culture of the club.

Bay Point Yacht Club, Incorporated is a private not-for-profit yacht club located along the gulf coast in the panhandle of northwest Florida.  The club has 200 members that enjoy spending time sharing yachting adventures and social activities.  Our club welcomes visits by other yacht clubs traveling the Intercoastal from Apalachicola to Pensacola.

St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club

Phone: (850) 769-2453

Email: [email protected]

Address: 218 Bunkers Cove Road Panama City, Florida 32401

Website: http://www.stabyc.com

Our mission is to promote and provide support for the sport of sailing, power boating, water safety, and related activities; as well as provide facilities for our members to share common interests in a social atmosphere of mutual camaraderie, both on and off the water.

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Panama City Beach Marina

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The Harbourage Yacht Club

The Harbourage Yacht Club is a premier Marina located in Panama City Beach, Fl. Boasting a total of 79 slips, and being located in a gated community, this Marina is the perfect location to keep your Boat or Yacht. So if you are a Panama City Beach resident, or maybe just a Seasonal visitor, consider The Harbourage Yacht Club for your Watercraft.

Gated Community

The Gated Community ensures your watercraft is safe & secure. The beautiful entrance, and friendly people add to the experience of preparing for a day on the water.

Beautiful Docks

Our docks are well spacious, and well maintained. Those who have slips have no problem maneuvering the watercraft in and out, and experience minimum waves.

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Their are many advantages to the slips at The Harbourage Yacht Club. Mainly, the seclusion of the Marina. The security and seclusion does not make the Marina far from the Gulf. Most trips only take 15 Min to get to the Jettys.

Panama City Beach

The Marina is located in the St. Andrews bay of beautiful Panama City Beach, FL The Panhandle of Florida is boaters paradise featuring sugar white sand and emerald green waters.

Panama City residents heartbroken after loss of St. Andrews Bay Yacht club

P ANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club in the heart of the cove community was destroyed by fire. An investigation is now underway to determine the cause.

The community experienced an overnight tragedy.

“When I first saw the pictures,” said Gabriela Cumbie, Cove resident and yacht club member. “Couldn’t believe it and the next thing I did was I woke up jumped out of bed wake up my husband and showed him the pictures.”

This is a loss that’s hard to comprehend for those who live in the cove community.

“Run down here and we just sat here and cried,” said Cumbie.

As the flames engulfed the St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club, we are told the first fire units arrived on scene just before 4 a.m.

“They found fire and smoke conditions on the right side of building,” said David Collier, Panama City fire chief. “Due to the time and extend of the of the fire growth and of the of the time before we were notified made it made it very, very difficult to get ahead of the fire and keep contained.”

Collier says that wasn’t the only challenge, nearby fire hydrants didn’t have the water supply needed.

“We did have some water supply issues in the very initial phases of the fire, but we were able to overcome those by locating fire hydrants that were function able,” said Collier.

We asked Panama City’s assistant city manager why this was a problem.

“In certain areas we have fire hydrants that don’t function optimality and not to say there’s not water in them it’s just not at the volume,” said Jared Jones.

He says the city is working on improvement projects to make the lines longer, but to fight this fire crews had to get help from another agency.

“Bay County Fire Rescue assisted us with water shuttle operations they are called drop tanks,” said Collier. “Each one of those drop tanks holds 3,000 gallons of water. They were able to secure a water supply down on another roadway in Panama City to fill their tankers and drop those water into those tanks and we use water for firefighting operations.”

St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club normally a place where people gather is destroyed here you can see the police tape pieces of what the historical building was once scattered on the ground residents in the Cove say they’re heartbroken.

“The building is a building, but it is the history and the memories that we have made over 90 years that is what absolutely breaks my heart at this loss,” said Cumbie.

Club member Gabriela Cumbie says these walls held so many memories, including prestigious yachting trophies.

“It is not just the trophies, it’s the generations and generations growing up in the yacht club in the community that are feeling the loss here,” said Cumbie. “A lot of happy memories here.”

The club’s commodore said even though the fire destroyed the facility, it hasn’t destroyed the club.

More details released on St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club fire

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Authorities have released more details about the fire at the St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club early Sunday morning.

At a press conference held on the property around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, authorities with the Panama City Fire Department said the call about the fire came in from a bystander at 3:44 a.m. They said crews arrived on scene and began battling the fire before 4 a.m.

The fire had already spread to a majority of the building when crews arrived, and that made it difficult for firefighters to access the building.

As of 9 a.m., authorities said the bulk of the fire was out, but there were still hotspots in certain hard-to-access areas.

Authorities with Panama City Fire said crews also faced challenges getting the fire out due to insufficient water supply in the fire hydrants. We’re told the Panama City City Assistant Manager confirmed it is because the water lines are old and too small for the capacity of water needed to fight the fire.

Crews said Bay County Fire Rescue assisted with bringing water to the scene.

The building is destroyed, and an investigation is taking place to determine the cause of the fire.

The St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club posted the following statement to social media Sunday morning:

From Commodore:

Members of the St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club,

Our beloved clubhouse was destroyed by fire this morning. Fortunately, the building was empty and no one was hurt. A passerby called 911 about 3:30am, and firefighters from the City of Panama City have been working tirelessly to put the fire out since then.

The Fire Marshal has not been able to determine a cause yet, but it started on the pool side and worked east. The firefighters made a special effort to keep the oak tree on the back deck from burning, and we will have an arborist inspect it as soon as practical.

We have good insurance, and we’ve already filed a claim. The Board will be meeting this week to begin the rebuilding process as well as to find ways to keep the Club functioning in some form in the meantime. We have assured our staff that they will be paid through the end of the year, at the least.

Though fire has destroyed our facility, it has not destroyed our Club. We are all sad for the loss of the place where we’ve created so many good memories, but we have an opportunity to make a lot of the things we’ve only been able to wish for become reality. Today we mourn, tomorrow we will go to work.

With great hope for the future,

Will Cramer

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Gay Hall Sudduth

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Gay Hall Sudduth, born June 15, 1931 , passed away on Saturday, March 16, 2024. She was preceded in death by her husband, J. Rowe Sudduth. She was born and raised in North Carolina. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. E.K. Hall of Mt. Airy, North Carolina. She had one sister and two brothers. She is survived by her son J.R. Sudduth, Jr., her daughter Ann Sudduth Hartley, her son-in-law W. George Hartley and four grandchildren, Walt, Hall, Lannie Hartley and Faryn Muston.

She attended Greensboro College, Wake Forest and the University of North Carolina and graduated with a BA in Speech and Drama in 1952. She moved to Panama City after college and taught public speaking, drama, debate and English at Bay High School. Gay was Miss Panama City in 1953. She and Rowe married in 1954 and has been a member of First Baptist Church of Panama City since then.

She has served as President of the Junor Service League, Friends of the Library and the St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club Ladies Auxiliary. Also serving on boards of Christian Women’s Club, Gulf Coast College Foundation, Panama Marine Institute, General Advisory for Adult Education, and Panama City Music Association-her interests were quite varied. Gay also was campaign chairperson for many political campaigns, including Senator Lawton Childs, Paula Hawkins, Jack Eckerd and President Richard Nixon.

She wrote two cookbooks and a weekly Food Column for many Florida newspapers. Her love of entertaining and food led her to teach many cooking schools and classes.

She loved her Lord, her church, her family, her home, her friends, cooking, entertaining, creative writing, drama, elegance, beauty and anything that put a smile on your face and a warm spot in your heart.

She led a blessed life and loved living.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church of Panama City Fellowship Hall (former sanctuary located at the corner of 6th St. and Harrison Ave.) The family will receive friends at the church from 10-11 a.m. prior to the service. A private family graveside service will follow. In lieu of flowers, the family request that memorial donations be made to the Building Fund of First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1200. Panama City, FL 32402 in memory of Gay Sudduth.

Wilson Funeral Home

214 Airport Road, Panama City, FL 32405

850-785-5272

www.wilsonfuneralhome.net

Posted online on March 18, 2024

Published in Panama City News Herald

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The first option had a “Key West, old Florida” architectural style. The second option was based on the existing yacht club building, and the third option was a contemporary architectural design.

Some people in Cape Coral raised concerns about the parking garage and financing the project.