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The Eau Gallie Yacht Club is a private Club located at the mouth of the Banana River adjacent to the Intra-coastal Waterway in Indian Harbour Beach on the east coast of Florida near Melbourne. Launched in 1907, the Club has grown over the past one hundred plus years to include members from all walks of life and business – from area founders, astronauts and government officials to titans of industry and community leaders.

The Club’s lounge, dining and banquet room, and Harbor Grill overlook the Club’s marina, the beautiful Banana River and its confluence with the Indian River. The ambiance of the Club is the perfect setting for these special occasions including weddings, socials, card parties and business gatherings. Members and their guests enjoy a variety of dining experiences prepared by our own award winning chefs.

The Eau Gallie Yacht Club celebrates over a century of history and tradition in Brevard. Members become part of an enduring legacy – a connection to the past including local founders and leaders through the decades.

As the world rushes to reinvent itself, the Eau Gallie Yacht Club still harbors traditional values representing honor, civility, success, respect, family and community – while continuously improving Club facilities and remaining relevant to each generation of members.

Membership by Invitation Only.

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Whatever Floats Your Boat

The Eau Gallie Yacht Club is not just about the water (or adults )

The people of the Eau Gallie Yacht Club are delight to embrace their nautical heritage, which is understandable, considering that the club started in 1907. It still has a commodore and a commodore’s ball, it still has a change-of-watch ceremony and dinner each year, it still sponsors one of the area’s best-known annual year-end events, the holiday boat parade and its slips still accommodate some of Brevard’s most magnificent pleasure vessels.

But leaders of modern organizations like EGYC know that in order to serve their members, a certain amount of diversity of activity is necessary, and that means parents and kids.

“A major part of our membership mix is young families,” says Hugh Van Veen, general manager of the club. “We’ve geared our facilities and events toward families with younger and older children.”

Van Veen ticks off EGYC’s successful list of kid-friendly activities and adds that the complex has a fine playground. He also notes that none of the activities he has named has anything to do do with boats.

“It’s a common misconception that you have to be a boater to be a member, and boating was a mainstay here for many years. It still is. But the Eau Gallie Yacht Club is not a boat club that has social activities, it’s a social club that has boating. At least 30 to 40 percent of our members join because of family (activities),” he says.

“We do about 45 weddings a year. “We also host cocktail parties, business meetings . . . all sorts of functions. And the building is laid out in such a way that the parties don’t interfere with members’ dining or other activities.”

But in order to have that wedding or meeting, you must be sponsored by a member, and in order to dine there, you must be, or be invited by a member.

“It is a private club and our members appreciate that . . . young families appreciate it more and more,” Van Veen says.

Kids’ stuff :

The Eau Gallie Yacht Club is for kids too. It has youth-oriented:

Pool parties
A summer youth camp
Holiday parties
Tennis lessons
Fishing tournaments
Etiquette lessons

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Serving Up Racquet Adventures Enhances Member Experience

By Milos Vasovic | May 30, 2024

Milos Vasovic, Director of Racquets at Cherokee Town and Country Club in Atlanta, Ga., says o ne of the best ways to improve member experience, provide value and add more fun for everyone is to organize tennis/pickleball trips.

Being a Director of Tennis and now Racquets for 16 years at four different clubs has been an amazing experience that brought me many fun memories, experiences and friends for life.

Our job is to create value to our members and constantly offer new programs and events to keep them coming back.

One of the best ways to improve member experience, provide value and add more fun for everyone is to organize tennis/pickleball trips.

Milos Vasovic

I have been fortunate enough to have the ability to organize trips for more than a decade now and I can say that I will keep offering them for many more years to come as members really enjoy them and love traveling with us.

My first trip was in 2011, while I was still at the Eau Gallie Yacht Club in Melbourne, Fla. It was a day trip to Miami Open and many of those members are still making their yearly trip to Miami.

After I moved to Island Country Club on Marco Island, I organized my most extravagant trip so far. Eight of the members joined me on a trip to Wimbledon in 2018.

In the 20 months I have been at Cherokee Town and Country Club in Atlanta, Ga., we have had four organized trips and they were all to Florida … two Miami Open trips, that included a visit to Fisher Island Club and two racquets trips to Naples.

In 2023 we made a trip for tennis players and earlier this year I took group of pickleball players. During those trips we were able to visit some of the nicest clubs in Southwest Florida: Quail West Golf and Country Club, Grey Oaks Country Club, Club at Mediterra, Wyndemere Country Club and Quail Creek Country Club. My long-time tennis friends Mike Curran, Jose Pastrello, Jicham Zaatini, and Mike Baldwin were gracious hosts, made those trips memorable, and my members want to go back every year. Beside that, we were able to eat at some of the best restaurants in London, Naples, Miami … That is what makes these trips over the top, as it is not always only about tennis or pickleball. I want our members to explore the areas we are visiting and take back great memories with them.

1. Creating member loyalty: Showing that you care for them and for the program, and want to improve their overall experience will create loyalty and appreciation by the members.

2. Getting to know the members: Trips are a wonderful opportunity to learn more about your members, get to know them as people and learn about them and their families. That creates a stronger bond and sense of belonging to the club.

3. Staying relevant: At this day and age, clubs are becoming more creative in engaging their members and we need to do everything we can to stay relevant in our efforts to always offer the best experience to our members.

4. Wonderful opportunity to see new clubs and see how they do things: I was always curious and want to learn as much as possible, and trips are a nice opportunity to see some of the nicest clubs and see how they run their programs and what they offer to their membership.

5. Expanding the network: Every trip is an opportunity to meet new people and create bonds that can last a lifetime and can be beneficial down the line, both professionally and personally.

I have many more ideas for the fun trips to take with our members and am looking forward to exploring new areas and offering a new level of member experience and satisfaction. If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to me anytime at [email protected] .

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