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History and
Tradition
In the late 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s the club flourished with social events and racing, drawing as many as 20 boats for club events and more than 70 sailboats for the Texas Offshore Racing Curcuit (TORC). Those were the glory days, when the marina was filled with race boats and crews gathered around our clubhouse for race committee meetings before offshore races. Changes
in the Wind In the late 80’s most of the racers retired or sold their boats and racing in the area changed, as did our club. We lost members and some of the founders and core members left or past away, with few to fill in the spaces. Our club went into hibernation with little left except the name and a few members, until 2006. We restored sailing and started club racing again, with hopes to form a coalition with the Galveston Yacht Basin, then owned by the Sealy Smith Foundation. Meetings were held and the yacht basin manager at that time, became a supporting ally who helped our club restore activities, which generated new interest for our members. We were making great progress and had plans for racing and social events for the year, until a major policy shift took place with the Sealy Smith Foundation, owners of the marina. After hurricane Ike the basin was sold to new owners who are now rebuilding the marina. So today we remain a sailing club with a name an internet domain, and no clubhouse, but a
strong desire to keep sailing.
If you have an interest in helping to rebuild our traditional sailing club and help build a new and active sailing community we invite anyone who has ever thought of sailing or crewing to join us in that effort. Let’s bring that spirit and sailing passion together and rebuild our club. Send us an email if you have any interst or comments: Galveston Sailors
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The Galveston Yacht Club was founded in 1962 by
Stephen Walters, Dr. Glen Russell, Gil Bray, and Dr. Hilde with the
objective to promote yachting and sailboat racing in Galveston.