The WYC Boat of the Year Award

The Boat of the Year Award was donated to the Wayzata Yacht Club by Quiet World Sports in 1975. It is to award both excellence in achieving first place finishes and a participation award for sailing many races. It originally came from a time when the yacht club only had a few fleets, and at the end of the year they took the two or three leading skippers in each fleet and had a sail-off in Ensigns. As the club grew, it became difficult to get borrowed boats, so the sail-off was dropped and instead was given to the boat with the most first place finishes during the season.

Starting in the 1993 season, the first place finishes are weighted by the number of participants for that fleet in each race, and is awarded to the boat that accumulates the most points.

	2011 Chuck Hutchinson
	2010 Brennom Family
	2009 Dave Brasch/Mike Bowers
	2008 Brennom Family
	2007 Ernie Worthley
	2006 John Sligh
	2005 Ernie Worthley
	2004 Frank & C.J. Rainaldi
	2003 Lars Hansen
	2002 Chad Olness & Tom Murphy
	2001 Jan & Karen Hetland
	2000 Scott Erdmann & Dave Crum
	1999 Lars Hansen
	1998 Jan Hetland
	1997 Dave Onan
	1996 Mike Sulser & Nick Anderson
	1995 Ernie Brody & Bert Foster
	1994 Ernie Brody & Bert Foster
	1993 Dave Onan
	1992 Bert Foster & Ernie Brody
	1991 Bert Foster & Ernie Brody
	1990 Bert Foster & Ernie Brody
	1989 Don Pearson
	1988 Pat & Angie Kabris, Kizzy & Gary Christensen
	1987 Gary Rolek
	1986 Jerry Wintheiser & Steve Bowers
	1985 Willy Crear
	1984 Steve Levitus
	1983 Dick Auer
	1982 Larry Klick
	1981 Paul Nelson
	1980 Paul Nelson
	1979 Ralph Turnquist
	1978 Dave Onan
	1977 Tom Jamieson
	1976 Dick Borden
	1975 Dave Lentz