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Clear Lake Yacht Club

Clear Lake and CLYC History 

  
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Camp Ground Dock, The island queen an early iron steamer was owned by the second proprietor of the Island Hotel, Charles Bergh.  It was used to ferry visitors to and from the island (replacing the wooden steamer Lady of the Isle that sank in July 1871).  She was 47 feet long, 9 feet wide and 5 feet deep, built entirely of iron and cruised at 15mph.   The boat could hold 150 passengers.  
Princess,  with the advent of the gasoline engine, boats using this mode of transportation proliferated on the lake.  The "Ideal" the first public launch, was a gas powered boat brought to the lake by J.F. Younglove.  He also owned the Princess which ferried passengers to and from Bayside.  During the great storm of 1931, the Princess capsized.  It was righted and continued to give excursion rides until it was move to the Silver Boot Amusement Park. 
Whitaker's Pier Birds eye view. 
White Pier
   
Oaks Hotel,  built in 1893 at the site of the present Hilltop Motel and was a popular summer hotel as the trolley let passengers at its front door. 
Oaks Hotel Lakeview
Oaks Hotel destroyed by fire in 1922.