Page 8. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2011 Waterfront News
CASTINE — This year’s Castine Classic Yacht Race, sponsored by the Castine Yacht Club, will celebrate the glorious early-20th- century designs of Nathanael G. Herreshoff. On Wednesday, August 3, a remarkable ren- dezvous of classic yachts built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, will be on exhibition at the Castine Town Dock, including two 44’ NY-30s Alera and Cara Mia (designed in 1904); 59’ NY-40 Rugosa (designed in 1915); and 72’ NY-50 Spartan (designed in 1912). The Castine regatta is believed to mark the first time in over seventy-five years in which yachts representing all three of these famed New York Yacht Club classes have com- peted.
CASTINE TO HOST HERRESHOFF CELEBRATION Giblin in Mystic, Connecticut.
These yachts will be honored at a sym- posium on August 3 at 4PM in Delano Hall at the Maine Maritime Academy. The sympo- sium will illuminate the finer details of the restorations of Spartan, Nellie and other Herreshoff yachts, all of which relied heavily on the drawings, photographs and files of the Herreshoff archives housed at the Hart Nau- tical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. Kurt Hasselbalch, Hart Nautical curator, will chair the discus- sion among a panel of restorers, owners and sailors of Herreshoff yachts.
Other Herreshoff yachts on exhibition will include 47’ Nellie (built in 1902); 49’ Bar Harbor 31 Desperate Lark (built in 1903); and 58’ P-Class Joyant (built in 1911). Nellie and Spartan were re-launched in 2010 following multi-year restorations: Nellie at Warren Pond Boatworks in South Berwick, Maine and Spartan at McClave, Philbrick &
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For those that did not know Charlie, he was the boat hauler who worked for Eaton’s Boat Yard in Castine for over two decades. He went to college at Southern Maine Voca- tional Technical Institute in South Portland and over the years ended up driving trucks. He certainly had a talent, since getting in and out of Eaton’s Boat Yard would chal- lenge the best of drivers.
The twelfth annual Castine Classic Yacht Race to Camden will set sail from the Castine harbor bell at 11:30 AM on Thursday, August 4. This 20 nautical mile race, which feeds into the Camden to Brooklin race and the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, is expected to attract a magnificent fleet of Classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts, according to David Bicks and Bob Scott, chairmen of these Castine events. Race notice/entry form and sailing instructions are available on
www.castineyachtclub.org.
Sailing season gets off to wet start in Portland Harbor
The Herreshoff designed ALERA undersail.
GMORA UPDATE: Centreboard and Harraseeket Racing Class A
SOUTH PORTLAND 12 June 12 — Rain showers and below-normal temperatures couldn’t keep more than 100 sailors from getting out on the water this weekend for the first major yacht race of the season, as the Centerboard Yacht Club hosted 20 boats for its regatta in the waters of Portland Harbor.
KAOS, skippered by Scott Smithwick, took first place in Racing Class A. Don Logan’s KEEMAH won Racing Class B, and Randy Rice’s RITA P emerged at the top of Cruising Class.
The Centerboard Regatta was the first in a series that make up the Gulf of Maine Ocean Racing Circuit. The following weekend, June 18 and 19, the Portland Yacht Club will host the Pilot Races off its facility in Falmouth Foreside. Yachts will continue to race most weekends through the summer, then many will sail a Fall Series over four weeks in September and October.
A handicapping system that takes into account a boat’s size, design, rigging, sails, and various other factors helped to level the playing field among the many participants. Here are the complete results for the Centerboard Regatta:
1. Kaos, Scott Smithwick 2. Go Dog Go, David Ruff 3. Big Dog Party, Peter Price 4. County Girl, William Newberry 5. Buzz, Richard Stevenson 6. Beausoleil, Richard Parent
Racing Class B
1. Keemah, Don Logan 2. Village Bicycle, Rich Ketchum 3. Revolution, Doyle Marchant 4. Tango, Pam Thomas 5. Altercation, Ron Cole
6. Intangible, Wolfgang Bauchinger 7. Honalee, Richard Stevens 8. Cherub, Bill Duggan 9. Girl Talk, Matthew LaLumiere
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