7-1-24 Very helpful friendly staff. This marina is in the middle of the Wharf Waterfront, a mile long stretch along the Potomac River with marinas, a pier, restaurants, retailers, residences, and businesses and only a few blocks from the Washington D.C. National Mall, a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C. It contains and borders several museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues. Washington DC has a great, clean, safe, and inexpensive transit system, and a free shuttle from the marina to the National Mall. Uber and Lyft is also very reasonable.

Excellent stay - great facilities, great location for seeing DC on foot or by public transportation, and the members are incredibly welcoming and helpful. If up for a walk, can get to Jefferson and Washington Monuments as well as the Mall/Smithsonian. But there is also the $1 Circulator that can get you to all the big sites and/or Metro. More restaurants than you can count right there, plus the Club has a restaurant and events that you are invited to. The Club is very dog friendly, but you do have to walk out of the promenade area a block or so and across Maine Ave to find some grass.

Such a GREAT location to visit DC!! Marina staff was terrific. Right on The Wharf with amazing restaurants and bars. Very secure marina with lovely facilities. Marina restaurant was delicious. Highly recommend.

Capital Yacht Club is a private club that will accept transients for short stay if a cruising member's slip is open. If you are lucky enough to find an available slip you will be perfectly positioned to enjoy your visit to the nation's Capitol while enjoying the amenities and security of a premier private yacht club. Enter the Washington Channel between Haines Point and Fort McNair north of Green "11" and continue up the channel approximately 1.5 miles to the marina which is just beyond the Wharf Marina. The docks at both the Wharf and Capital Yacht clubs are well marked. The docks belonging to the Capital Yacht Club are "A", "B", and "C". Slips are also clearly marked. There will be someone from the club on the dock to assist you with line handling. Armani and David assisted us and were helpful, friendly, and professional. Slips are single bay (finger docks on both sides of the slip) so you will have a choice as which side you wish to tie up. Power and water are dedicated to each slip and have no issues. Docks are floating concrete so set your fenders to low level. There is no current flowing through the channel. Depth at the dock is over 20 feet. As you are now guests at a private club you will be given security keys, a list of club rules, and will be granted access to the club amenities. The amenities include immaculate bath/showers, a laundry room with five sets of washer/dryers ($1.75 per wash or dry, coins or credit cards), a wonderful Captain's lounge with cooking facilities, a conference/library room, a full restaurant/bar, bike racks, a workout area, and more. In slip pump outs can be scheduled. Yacht club Wi-Fi is adequate but as you are in downtown DC, cellular reception is excellent. The club is dog friendly. The lovely Southwest Waterfront Park is 4/10ths of a mile south along the promenade. The Capital Yacht Club sits in the middle of the newly renovated Wharf area of Southwest Washington. Quite literally outside the front gate to the club there is a mile long promenade with shops, restaurants, boutiques, and other stores (more restaurants and shops coming soon in the newer buildings). Grocery and drug stores are a half mile away as is an Enterprise Rent-a-Car location. The National Mall is about a mile and a half walk or, if you prefer, you can take the free District Wharf SW Neighborhood Shuttle (bus stop 350 feet from clubhouse in front of CVS) and the DC Circulator to visit almost all points of interest all the way out to Arlington National Cemetery. Both shuttle bus systems have online tracking. The DC Metro system can be reached by taking the SW Neighborhood Shuttle to L'Enfant Plaza. As a place to base your stay in Washington DC, you cannot do better than this. We were recognized as guests by the members and felt that we were warmly welcomed at their wonderful club. While $3.00 per foot may seem high, one has to remember that a room at one of the hotels in the area will start at $300 per night.