The Cruising Yacht Club of Tasmania (CYCT) was formed in 1975 to encourage sailing and boat building by amateur boat builders, establish a club house and provide a slipway, storage, building, parking and refuelling and other facilities, and to organise instruction and cruising and racing of boats. The CYCT is structured with a Commodore (the first being Donald Sutherland), Vice Commodores (Racing and Cruising), a Rear Commodore, Treasurer, Secretary, an Editor of the Club's newsletter 'the Albatross' (first published in December 1975), a Quartermaster, Club Warden (from 1987), Membership officer (from 1994), and financial members. The clubs emblem is a white albatross on a blue background. Since 1975 the CYCT has met monthly, and has run a regular monthly program of cruising barbeques and overnight cruises. The first recorded club cruise was to the anchorage at Rosebanks in Barnes Bay. Mid-week cruses were introduced in 1986. The club commenced with 50 members and recorded 100 in 1976. Early meetings were held at the Kingston High School, and later the clubrooms of the Derwent Sailing Squadron. From 1975 to 1984 a strong focus of the club was planning the establishment of a permanent club home. In 1984 the club leased the Mariner's Cottage at Battery Point from the National Trust. Finding the Mariner's cottage space restrictive, the CYCT moved to the Hobart Regatta Pavilion in 1993. As at 2019 General and Committee meetings of the CYCT are held at the Royal Yacht Cub of Tasmania (Sandy Bay). In conjunction with the State Government, in 1987 the CYCT published a popular guide to anchorages in D'Entrecasteaux Channel. In 1992 the CYCT, together with other yacht clubs, organised the D'Entrecasteaux Bicentennial Cruising Regatta.