The 52-room family-owned York Beach Surf Club has opened in the coastal town of of York, Maine. Originally founded in 1963 as an organization for local surfers by Sonny Perkins, a local surfer who who helped develop east coast surf culture. Perkins' son Taylor purchased the property in 2020.
Conducting the largest restoration in the region in two decades, the hotel was re-envisioned by Perkins’ own design team, The Surf Company, in a "Scandinavian Modern Maine" style, melding modern minimalist Scandinavian style with the tradition of Maine’s traditional coastal architecture. Public spaces include a heated saltwater pool, pool bar and an oceanfront lawn space for the raw oyster and cocktail bar the “Rolling Pearl (a restored vintage 1964 International Harvester milk truck).
York Beach Surf Club is located on Long Sands Beach in southern Maine. The design of the property is meant to celebrate surf culture, and the natural wood bands around the perimeter of the Waverider building (indicative of the stringers in a surfboard) and coral doors evoke the art of boardmaking.
“Our goal with creating this project was to offer something entirely new for York and this area of Southern Maine,” owner Taylor Perkins said in a statement. “By creating a full-service property that offers a fun and laid-back atmosphere for guests and locals to hang out and immerse themselves in Maine’s surf-and-beach vacation culture.”