Location
Coordinates N35 28.12 W80 56.20
The Peninsula Yacht Club is situated on the shores of Lake Norman, which is just north of Charlotte, NC and is the largest inland lake in the Carolinas.
The Yacht Club’s marina offers boaters a well-protected, deep-water cove, as well as easy access to the lake’s main channel.
Lake Norman, the largest body of fresh water in North Carolina, was created by the establishment of the Cowans Ford Dam on the Catawba River in the 1960s. The lake takes its name from Norman Atwater Cocke, former president of Duke Power, the company that created the lake.
The result of this monumental project was the scenic inland sea that now makes up Lake Norman. These numbers help communicate the grand scale of the lake:
- 32,500 surface acres of water
- 34 miles long and 8 miles across at its widest point (twice the size of the Sea of Galilee)
- 520 miles of shoreline (more than the coasts of both North and South Carolina)
- 130 feet deep at its deepest point
- Holds 3.4 trillion gallons of water
