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North Cape Yacht Club (U.S.), Michigan
Estb: 1962. Location: Maumee River,
La Salle, MI.
Burgee: Pennant circa 4:6 (photo, image on club house
chimneys). Red field charged with the horizontal white capital letters Y C on a
blue diamond with two sides, 4 units from fly point, on upper and lower fly
edges. The diamond’s other two sides terminate 1 unit from hoist and fimbriated
with a thin white line. Upper red field charged with the white capital letter N
and the lower red field, separated by a thin white horizontal line, charged with
the white capital letter C.
"Located on the shore of Western Lake Erie,
some eight miles north of the Ohio/Michigan border, . . .
The founding of
North Cape Yacht Club in 1962, evolved from the efforts of several members of
the Toledo Yacht Club (TYC) that dates from 1865. The location of TYC up the
Maumee River frustrated the sailors of the one-design Dragon fleet who made the
long, back and forth trek to their racing venue in the open waters of Lake Erie
and Maumee Bay. Led by Walter Swindeman, Richard Krauss, John Holton, James
Bernard and John Turin, in the late 1950's this group began searching for a
location where the Dragon fleet could be moored closer to deep-water sailing. .
. .
The site they eventually located was a match with the business plan
of Virgil Gladieux, a Toledo businessman and entrepreneur. In 1961, Mr. Gladieux
was planning to construct a marina on lakefront property he had acquired near
the mouth of South Otter Creek that was then a duck marsh and the remnants of
the old Toledo Beach Amusement Park. . . .
Because the board of Toledo
Yacht Club declined to become involved in the project as a sailing station annex
or possible future site for TYC itself, the group, with Walter Swindeman as a
driving force, sought to organize a new yacht club. . . . On January 9, 1962,
the North Cape Yacht Club was properly incorporated and the lease was assigned
to it. The club's first commodore was founding member Walter Swindeman who was
succeeded, after a 2-year term, by founding member Richard Krauss. . . .
In 1971, the club purchased the previously leased site for $125,000 with the
proceeds of bonds sold to its members. . . “
Source: accessed 13 October
2018, https://ncyc.net
Peter Edwards,
28 October 2018