Our mission is to make this an information packed starting point for racing and cruising sailors in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas. This is a dynamic site, always being updated and having additional features as we get better at website design and construction. Local area sailors are encouraged to submit additional pages and links about North Texas sailing, such as the Texas Snipe Class Sailing Page, or provide us more information to include in these pages, such as a link to Dallas area weather.  

We hope that this site encourages people to come out and try racing or sailing. All the clubs that we been to welcome landlubbers and beginning sailors and there are almost always people looking for able bodies to crew on their yachts (nautical term for sailboats). If you are new to sailing, check out the Crew List page.  Because we mostly sail at White Rock Lake, we know of several sailors who are willing to take you out on the lake in a Snipe, Coronado-15 or Flying Scot to introduce you to one-design racing classes.  If you are a skipper who is willing to take out new sailors you can put your name on the Skippers List.  You can also find out more about one design classes here or by checking out the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA), the Coronado-15 National Class Association or the Flying Scot Sailing Association.

White Rock Lake, home of the Corinthian Sailing Club, is a small lake (2 x 3/4 miles) restricted for sailboats, kayaks and canoes in the middle of East Dallas, approximately 5 miles Northeast of downtown Dallas. Home of National Champions in Flying Scots, Corinthians, C-15's and Rebels. Location of Snipe Fleet #1, established in 1933 and the spawn of prior World, National, Western Hemisphere and District Champions in the class.  The Snipe fleet at White Rock Lake owns a competitive Snipe available for racing on Sunday afternoons for any experienced skipper who would like to try out a small sailboat before purchasing.  Click here to see the fleet boat and other Snipes currently available for sale that we know about.

Lake Ray Hubbard is a large lake east of Dallas between Interstate Routes 20 and 30, it is one of the most popular sailboat racing lakes.  It hosts three yacht clubs, Chandlers Landing, Rush Creek, and Captains Cove. Rush Creek is the home club for the Olympic Silver medalist in the Flying Dutchman (1992) and  470 (2000) Paul Forrester and was the host for the J-22 North Americans in 2000. Chandlers Landing has J-22 club boats available for lease on a season, series, and day/hour basis, Captains Cove has wind-surf boards for rent, and for those wishing for more speed and noise, you can rent Personal Watercraft. 

We also have a few photos from the Snipe Scandinavian Open Championship and World Masters Championship held in August 2000 in Horsens Fjord in Denmark, in which one of our webmasters participated--see boat #29777--and click the photo (courtesy Niels Kjeldsen) to the right.QQQQO