Champions and Championships
The Crescent, owned by the Hamilton brothers, of shirt-making fame, raced in the Fourth of July regatta of 1897 at La Porte, off Sylvan Beach, in Galveston Bay. After this regatta, the Houston Yacht Club was formed.
Despite the ravages of the Great Storm of 1900, along with the Spanish-American war at the turn of the century, regattas were held at Seabrook and Galveston in the early years as well.
The yacht club participated in a number of regatta's and various other events.
In 1921, members of the Houston Launch Club (which was a reorganized and renamed iteration of Houston Yacht Club) arrived in Pensacola, Florida for the Lipton Fish Class challenge.
In July 1927, the Mississippi Valley Power Boat Regatta was held in Galveston and hosted by the Houston Launch Club in the same year that the club moved to Galveston Bay.
Two years later, in 1929, the Houston Launch Club hosted the national Lipton Cup competition, which was only two years after moving into its home on Galveston Bay, Shoreacres.
The club would go on to host many more regional, national, and international competitions in Galveston Bay. A number of the club's sailors have also gone on to compete nationally and internationally, including Olympic sailors John Kolius and Charlie Ogletree.