Bay View Yacht Club - History

History

Bay View Yacht Club was originally formed as the Toledo Powerboat Club.

 
It is located at the mouth of the Maumee River

Additional club history and trophies may be viewed
on the main deck of the club in the trophy case

BAY VIEW YACHT CLUB - Article written in 1941

The story of Bay View Yacht Club must begin with the founding of the Toledo Power Boat Club from which it evolved. On June 1, 1905, a group of men imbued the idea of creating a yacht club for power boats, met in the machine shop of F. M. Underwood on Front Street in Toledo. From the meeting came the Toledo Power Boat Club, one of the first clubs for power boats to be established on the Great Lakes. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State of Ohio on June 3, 1905. The incorporators were J. M. Skinner, E. T. Affleck, S.B. Rinker, F.M. Underwood, David S. Well, J. W. Mulinix, Jr., and Orin W. Nelson. Its first Commodore was F.M. Underwood; its Vice Commodore, P. C. Jones; Rear Commodore, O.W. Nelson; and Treasurer, S. B. Rinker.

In 1907 land was leased from the City of Toledo on which to erect a clubhouse, docks and marine railway. The marine railway was completed in November 1907; the clubhouse November 1911.

During the administration of Commodore Henry Kendall in 1915, the club was admitted to membership in the Inter-Lake Yachting Association. The Toledo Power Boat Club gradually relinquished its rule on power boats and sail boats entered the fleet. In 1922 the name "Bay View Yacht Club" was adopted and proper changes made in the charter.

Today the physical properties of the Bay View Yacht Club are extensive. The clubhouse, pictured above, is ample and affords a splendid view of Bay View Park Lagoon and Maumee Bay. The club has approximately fifteen hundred feet of available shore line on the sheltered Lagoon. At the present time sixty boats are accommodated at its docks. A new dock 480 feet long is nearing completion which will increase the capacity of the anchorage to 100 yachts. The marine railway can handle boats up to twenty tons and one hundred yachts can find winter storage in the broad boat yard.

Yachtsmen of the Inter-Lake Yachting Association are cordially invited to visit Bay View Yacht Club when in the vicinity and avail themselves of its hospitality and facilities. Bay View Yacht Club would be glad to prove its greatest claim to fame -- that Bay View Yacht Club stands preeminently first in fellowship.

The club stands proudly in its place in the yachting fraternity of the Great Lakes, its history not one of glamour and excitement, but rather one of wholesome and healthy growth.