Cedar Mills Yacht Club was founded in 1981 by a handful of refugees from Lake Grapevine in Dallas, TX. According to former member Dick Wheeler, "The Club was founded by a group of Grapevine Lake refugees all right, of which I was one. But the year was 1979, not ‘81 and the reason was excessively LOW water... in [Lake] Grapevine... not high. The Club was known briefly as the "Texoma Fleet of the Grapevine Sailing Club." Eventually, several of those intrepid souls did found Cedar Mills Yacht Club at Cedar Mills Marina on Lake Texoma.

Lake Texoma was impounded in 1944 and is located on the Texas-Oklahoma border. With a surface area of 89,000 acres and 580 miles of shoreline, it is the twelfth largest man made lake in the country. The lake is located approximately one hour north of Dallas, TX and two and one half hours south of Oklahoma City, OK. Nearby cities include: Sherman and Dennison Texas, and Durant, Oklahoma.

The clubhouse is located on the Cedar Mills Marina property just 100 yards south of the Ship's Store near the marina center cove. There are showers, a small kitchen, a lending library, HDTV and fireplace. The most recent addition is a large deck with BBQ/Smoker for use by the membership.

The Clubhouse

The clubhouse was built in 1991 after the original building was destroyed in the 'hundred year flood of 1991'.

The building offers the members many of the comforts of home - fireplace, kitchen, showers, restrooms, book and DVD swap library, television, inside/outside sound system, conversation and meeting areas. The deck overlooks the center cove of the Cedar Mills marina on the west side of the Big Mineral arm of Lake Texoma.

Members will gather weekend mornings for casual conversation and maybe a bit of breakfast. Then you may see several on the patio sipping sundowners and talking about their day of sailing.

The original building was moved to this site from elsewhere and was reputed to have been a brothel. The building served as a the marina offices until the offices were moved to the location of the original Pelican's Landing Restaurant. The Yacht Club took over the building (shown to the right) in 1981.

The building was heavily damaged by flood waters in 1991 and had to be demolished, making room for the current building.

In the late 1990's a porch was constructed adding much needed shade to the front of the building.

The current clubhouse was narrowly missed by the hundred year flood of 2004 and the next hundred year flood in 2007. In the 2007 flood, board members motored their dingys up to the front rail of the yacht club and tied off. The meeting was held on the front porch with the water only inches from the building.

The view of the new yacht club before the

front porch was added

The view from the front porch during the

July 2007 flood