12/03/2023
SSC tonight. Photo by Blair Hake.
Stockton Sailing Club
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4980 Buckley Cove Way
Stockton, CA
95219
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| Tuesday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Friday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Saturday | 8am - 4pm |
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Our History
The club was started in 1933 by a few youngsters who went to Stockton High School and hung around the Stephens Brothers Boat Works. They built their own boats and kept them tied to the bank just west of the boat yard. Meetings were held in a loft over the garage at the Stephen's home on Baker Street. The earliest class boats were the Olympic Monotype, but soon the members switched to Snipes, and became active in the Small Boat Racing Association of Northern California.
The original name was Ionic Sailing Club, named for early Greek sailors in the yacht club traditions of names like Aeolian and Corinthian. The club officially incorporated in 1940. The name was changed to Stockton Sailing Club in 1952. By this time members were entering regattas in the Bay area. The Stockton Sailing Club won their share of races, but the question was always: Ionic Sailing Club, where is that? The solution was to change the I on the burgee to S to identify with Stockton. In 1965 the articles of incorporation were finely amended.
The first harbor was at Louis Park. The City gave the club permission to use the cove in 1937. The boats were kept on moorings. It was a do it yourself club, and the members put down old farm equipment wheels on cables for moorings. They cut the mast and boom from a sunken barge on the mud near the head of the channel in Stockton, floated the spars to the cove and erected them on the bank to make a crane. The first big purchase was the clubhouse. An old ark down in the islands at Holt was purchased for two hundred dollars and towed to the cove. It served as the clubhouse until the start of World War II. One by one, all the member went into the service and just left the club property. After the war everything was gone.
The next location was South Buckley Cove. In 1946 the club built a dock and a few slips and attached them to the farmer's property on the east side of the cove. The farmer charged the club twenty dollars a month. The club leased land at the present site from the city for a small yearly fee, but the lease could by canceled at any time. A crane was erected at what is now the location of A-dock. There were great plans for a harbor and clubhouse, but it did not work out. The cove was shallow and need dredging. There was no electric service or security, and when Ladd and Armstrong moved their boat building business to North Buckley Cove the sailing club went with them. Slips were built by Ladd and rented to the members. In 1949 a barge was purchased in Sausalito and towed to the cove. It was moored to the bank at Ladd's. A small building on the barge served as the clubhouse for about a year and then it was replaced with a new redwood structure that encompassed the entire barge. Building contractor Corbin Shepherd, a member, charged only for materials and labor, the painting and finishing work was done by member work parties. After a sinking, the barge was repaired at Colberg's and was then located at the outer end of Ladd's dock.
