The Wichita Falls Sailing Club is a yacht club located in Henrietta, Texas (United States), on the shore of Lake Arrowhead.
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History
Wichita Falls Sailing Club was founded in 1935 as Wichita Falls Yacht Club at Lake Wichita, in Wichita Falls. In 1973, the club moved to Lake Arrowhead and in the 1990s the club's name was changed to better reflect the specific interest in sailing as opposed to motor boating.
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Fleets
The club was first dominated by the Snipe fleet number 34, based at the club, but in the 1960s the Windmill took over as the most popular boat. In the early 1970s, the first cabin boats, Venture 22 and 24, and in 1990 Flying Scot fleet number 170 was established at WFSC.
Sailors
Perry Richardson Bass won the 1935 Snipe Worlds. Later on, in 1972, as navigator for Ted Turner's "American Eagle", he won the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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