The following is taken from the 2017-2018 and 2014-2015 Lakeport Yacht Club handbooks. Most of the club activities noted below are more historical than current, but that could change with time and effort.
The original charter was made on August 5th, 1959, as the Empire Sailing Club.
It was registered in the office of Secretary of State of the State of California (Frank M. Jordan, Secretary of State). Thomas W. Pickett, Bell and Cox, Attorneys at Law, P.O. Box 419, Ukiah, California, and members of the Board of the Empire Sailing Club filed the charter. Members were the following: Andre Aldeghi, Lakeport; Erik E. Jakobson, Redwood Valley; Hal Stuart, Finley; john K. Petersen, Nice; and Conrad L. Cox, Ukiah, all in the state of California. The Empire Sailing Club was chartered in Mendocino County, State of California.
The change of name to Lakeport Yacht Club: On September 27, 1972, the Empire Sailing Club members voted to change the name to the Lakeport Yacht Club. Hans C. Carmiggelt and C. Harold Stuart filed this change of name of the incorporated Empire Sailing Club. The change was filed in Lake County, State of California, and was given the official seal of Delle Ananos Notary Public, Principal office in Lake County, State of California.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CLUB
The LYC activity year begins on the third Friday of January each year with informal meeting each month. These meetings may be for business, instruction, planning, or strictly for fun, such as organizing the Pirates Dance, salmon bake feed or sailing class. By March each year, the race committee has set up the race schedule which begins in March and lasts into October; Races are held on Clear Lake with the Lakeport Yacht Club building as the race committee’s headquarters.
The summer schedule includes club races, potluck dinners, Clear Lake Clean up, 4th of July Boat Parade, Cardboard duct tape race, raft-ups as well as a few work parties and poker runs. The highlights are the Lakeport Regatta, which can attract 100 boats from throughout the region. New officers are elected in October each year and are installed at the annual Commodore’s banquet, which concludes that year’s activities. Winners of the season’s races receive their trophies at this special dinner. Awards are also awarded to members for club accomplishments and club activity participation.