Great Harbor Yacht Club Opens for Business

by C&RB Staff (editor@clubandresortbusiness.com)
July 2009
 

After six years of planning, permitting, legal battles and construction, the Great Harbor Yacht Club in Nantucket, Mass. is officially opening its clubhouse.

Having completed the 25,000-square-foot clubhouse in just 10 months and wrapping up its dock and pier system, prior to that the club looked and felt like it was already running reports The Nantucket Independent.

The club's newly debuted facilities include its clubhouse, the Jobson Sailing Center, a gym and a boat repair, maintenance and storage barn. In addition to a soundproofed, post-and-beam framed Club Room for functions with its own bar, the clubhouse boasts its formal dining room on second floor overlooking the harbor, its Grill Room for casual eating and libations below it, and a large kitchen in its basement led by Chef Tom Berry formerly of Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Mass. and Bambara Temple Bar Bistro in Cambridge, Mass. There is the main bar and lounge on the second floor adjacent to the quieter Model Room stocked with living room chairs and side tables and decorated with encased model sailboats and 1950s photos of Nantucket Harbor.