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===Lake Mohawk Yacht Club=== [[File:Burgee of Lake Mohawk YC.svg|thumb|upright=.75|[[Burgee]] of Lake Mohawk Yacht Club.]] Incorporated in 1938, the club is a private [[yacht club]] located in [[Sparta Township, New Jersey]], on Lake Mohawk.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marinas.com/view/marina/5389_Lake_Mohawk_Yacht_Club_Sparta_NJ_United_States|title=Lake Mohawk Yacht Club |publisher=Marinas.com}}</ref> [[Sailing (sport)|Sailing]] was taking place as an organized activity on the lake as early as 1933. Lake Mohawk Country Club members Charles Gabor and Morgan Reichner decided to adopt the [[Snipe (dinghy)|Snipe]] as the most suitable boat for the lake, and the [[List of Snipe fleets|Snipe fleet (number 10)]] was chartered on January 23, 1934, by the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA). In 1938, Charles Gabor won for the fleet the [[Commodore Hub E. Isaacks and O'Leary Trophies|Commodore Hub E. Isaacks Trophy]] and by 1939 there were fifty-two Snipes in the fleet. In 1940, Kenneth Heitman won the National Junior Championship.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://snipe.org/bulletin/snipe-bulletin-archive/jib-sheet/55-jib-sheet-1946-august/file|title=Lake Mohawk boats one of the largest fleets|publisher=Jib Sheet, August 1947}}</ref> Soon after the Snipes came the [[Lightning (dinghy)|Lightnings]], another historical fleet chartered by the International Lightning Class Association (ILCA) as fleet #25.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/lakemohawkyachtclub/about-our-club/the-history-of-lmyc|title=The History of LMYC|publisher=Lake Mohawk Yacht Club}}</ref>
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