Oklahoma City Boat Club

Oklahoma City Boat Club The Oklahoma City Boat Club is located in northwest Oklahoma City just 15 minutes from downtown. William F. (Incidentally, OCBC formed Kittiwake Fleet No. 1).

Its facilities are on the east shore of beautiful Lake Hefner, one of the finest inland racing lakes in the country. The OCBC has a long and commendable history of racing, starting from its founding. Crosby designed the Snipe in 1931, coinciding with the founding of the Oklahoma City Yacht Club on Lake Overholser. This boat was relatively easy to construct and many thousands were built by individu

als and by commercial companies over the next 30 years. Several of our early members became proficient in racing Snipes and entered the Nationals in 1963. Beginning in 1962 Steve Taylor was selected as the Race Committee Chairman for the Snipe Nationals and ruled over that event for the next 14 years. Other centerboard boats, such as the Flying Scot, were raced on Lake Hefner as well. Because Lake Hefner is situated at or near the highest elevation in Oklahoma County and lack of obstructions to the winds, average wind velocities are high, often too high for comfortable or safe centerboard sailing. For example, for two years running in the 1970s the annual Snipe Regatta had to be cancelled because of high winds. This led several committed Snipe sailors to purchase keelboats. The first keelboat fleet formed was the Victory Fleet, followed by the Luder 16s and 21s. Then came the larger Kittiwake which grew to 15 boats. As the boating industry has grown over the years and new designs come onto the market, new one design fleets have waxed and waned at OCBC. In the '70s and '80s we have seen the growth and decline of the following fleets, Irwin 23, Santana 21, Santana 22 and the Santana 20. Very competitive racing occurred within these fleets. More recently, the major fleets have been the J-24s, J-22s, and the Catalina 22, 25 and 27 classes. Wednesday night races are with out a doubt the most popular series in OCBC’s racing program. The series, run from May through September, draws sixty or more competing boats to the starting line every week. The Race Committee provides four separate starts, grouping the fleets to make for the best, fairest and safest competition for all competitors. With a 6:00 harbor gun and 7:00 for the first start, competitors can get a in a good hour long race, put their boat up, socialize with other competitors (bench-racing) and still be home by 9:30 or 10:00, there is no better way to break up the work week. In addition to keelboats active centerboard racing has been carried out using the Sunfish and Laser classes. These boats have been popular with the youth program and the women's program.

Our Annual Banquet is coming up soon! It's going to be a blast...you won't want to miss it!
09/20/2022

Our Annual Banquet is coming up soon! It's going to be a blast...you won't want to miss it!

Support the Lighthouse Charity by purchasing a raffle ticket for a Lighthouse T-shirt quilt. $10 for 1 ticket or $25 for...
06/06/2022

Support the Lighthouse Charity by purchasing a raffle ticket for a Lighthouse T-shirt quilt.

$10 for 1 ticket or $25 for 3 tickets.

Tickets available at the OCBC membership meeting June 9th, the Centerboard/Multihull Regatta or Challenge Cup June 18th and the Lighthouse Regatta June 25th.

Drawing will be held at the Charity Dinner the evening of June 25th.

Great photos!
10/07/2021

Great photos!

09/12/2021

Commodore Cup Final Race! Greenawalt v Beling

09/09/2019

Falling Off Regatta is coming up soon!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Saturday, September 21st
0830-0930 Registration
* Donuts and Coffee will be available during registration.
0930 Skippers Meeting
1000 Harbor Signal
1100 1st race, additional races to follow at the discretion of the Race Committee.
*Lunch will be on the lake. Sandwich fixings will be available to skippers and crew during the registration period.
After Races Chips & Queso at the club house

Sunday, September 22nd
0900 Harbor Signal
1000 1st race, additional races to follow at the discretion of the Race Committee.
After Races - Awards

08/08/2019

Spinnakers rounding the mark for Leg 4 of 5! 8/7/19; W-5; Start-7:05 PM

Wednesdays we race. ⛵️💨🏁
08/08/2019

Wednesdays we race. ⛵️💨🏁

Boat Club Gang.
08/03/2019

Boat Club Gang.

It was a great day for the Old Man & Lady of the Lake Regatta! Hope everyone had a blast, we did!!
08/03/2019

It was a great day for the Old Man & Lady of the Lake Regatta! Hope everyone had a blast, we did!!

Old Man & Lady of the Lake Regatta is coming up soon! Who will hold this prestigious title for the 2019 sailing season?
07/28/2019

Old Man & Lady of the Lake Regatta is coming up soon! Who will hold this prestigious title for the 2019 sailing season?

What a nice evening tonight for a race. ⛵️💨 Tag yourself if you see yourself! 🙌
07/25/2019

What a nice evening tonight for a race. ⛵️💨 Tag yourself if you see yourself! 🙌

It was a great Captain Morgan today! We had about 50 pirates pillaging!
07/13/2019

It was a great Captain Morgan today! We had about 50 pirates pillaging!

Address

Lake Hefner Pkwy
Oklahoma City, OK
73120

Telephone

+14057518409

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