Newport Harbour Yacht Club

For seventy-five years the history of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, established in 1916, has been intertwined with the development of the city of Newport Beach and its world-renowned yachting and recreational harbor. Since 1919 the club’s permanent home has been its historic-landmark front pavilion, the picturesque clubhouse has been remodeled and enlarged but never replaced. Dr. Albert Soiland, the Norwegian born founder and first commodore of the yacht club, was a man with an inborn love... more