Buccaneer Yacht Club (abbreviated formally as BucYC or in local tradition as BYC) is a member-run sailing club which has operated out of Mobile Bay, Alabama since 1928. It is a member club of the Gulf Yachting Association and the United States Sailing Association. Its members are active competitors in 420, Fish class sloop, Flying Scot, Laser, Optimist, Star, Sunfish, PHRF and Portsmouth class events, many of which it hosts (see GYA 2007 schedule). While the Mobile Yacht Club predates it BucYC remains arguably the oldest continuously operating sailing club in Alabama.