View from the hillside in front of the St. Louis Hotel faces the Ice Yacht Club and the Minnetonka Yacht Club in St. Louis Bay on Lake Minnetonka, postmarked 1908.
Calhoun C Scow Fleet on Lake Calhoun. The sailboats are skippered and crewed by John Wiggins, George and Charles Reiter, Lewis and "Pop" Miner, and Dick and Bob Garwood. Note: all sailboat are gaffrigs, but some boats have pointed bows and some have smooth, blunt, rounded bows.
Record book showing income and expenditures for the club beginning in 1928 through 1950. the book also includes on page 144 the Annual Meeting notes for May 14, 1935. Note: some blank pages.
Left to right- Dick Sachett, Dick Garwood, Frank Bauman, Don Pott, Stuart Lemon, Marshall Ervin, Eric Peterson, Bill Chandler, R. F. Peterson, Bobby Smith, Barry Ervin Sr., Berry Ervin Jr., Paul Whiting Lewis Miner Sr., Lewis Miner Jr., Carlton DeRum, E.C. Garwood, ? Bauman.
Record book showing minutes and the budget for 1935- November 1951. Note: some blank pages and one trophy presentation 1950 handout with names listed. There is also a map of the buoys on Calhoun.
Calhoun Yacht Club C Scows at starting line at Lake Calhoun. Left to right, the boats are C14 Erle Reiter, C4 Harry Dye, C1 Bob Wood, C9 Herb and John Bloomberg.
These cannons are used by the judges at the starting and finishing lines for sailboat races. They were purchased by Calhoun Yacht Club August 27, 1936. these are 10 gage cannons, black powder, smmoth bore and manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The cost was $19.80. These cannons give off a puff of smoke that can be seen anywhere on the lake.
The Calhoun Yacht Club Board of Directors, left to right front row: Bloomberg, Griswold, Benson. Left to right back row: Cunningham, Reiter, Dick Garwood, Brennan, Merriman.
E Scow racing on Lake Calhoun at the Aquatennial Regatta. This boat was built at Johnson Boat Works, White Bear Lake. Don Whiting is preparing to step forward to remove the spinnaker pole. The skipper is Erle Reiter
This X fleet regatta was an annual event between Lake Harriet Yacht Club and Lake Calhoun Yacht Club for skippers 16 years old or under. These boats are tied to the main dock on Lake Calhoun.
Lake Harriet commodore Rome Riebeth presents Lake Harriet/Lake Calhoun X fleet regatta trophy to Lake Calhoun commodore Austin Caswell. This was an annual regatta between the two city lakes.
left to right- Lionel Bening, treasurer, Jack Perecman, Commodore, Fred Hird, Head Judge, Dale Borgeson, Sailing Captain, preparing to launch the new Glastrom judges and safety boat.
Letter is in response to changes in rules governing buoy distribution, preferences and lay out of the space. This change gave preference to city residents and discriminated against two boat families.
Calhoun Yacht Club sailors gathering on Lake Calhoun's main dock. Some of them are: Dick Carlson in yellow shirt, Tom Nixon in light blue stripped shirt and Eric Bloomquist in red headband on the far right.