Great Oak Yacht Club

In 1980, Eastern Shore Yacht Club was the only yacht club at Great Oak Landing. Eastern Shore was a long established, traditional club. A group of younger boaters, mostly sailors and many already members of ESYC had an inclination towards forming a less formal group with more emphasis on activities and boating. At a dinner dance in December of 1980, several of these folks got together, notwithstanding the stimulus of a few martinis and decided to form a new yacht club to be named Great Oak Yacht Club. To formalize this conception, they affixed their names to one of GOL’s cloth dinner napkins. It is unfortunate that this napkin, which was later framed and fortunately photographed, has been lost.