July 2012 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 7. Castine Classic Yacht Regatta to Celebrate William Fife
36’ sloop Alana at 6-meter World Cup Race. (courtesy of Dana Olson)
CASTINE — This year’s Castine Classic Yacht Regatta, sponsored by the Castine Yacht Club, will celebrate the beauty, design and speed of the early-20th-century yachts by the famed British designer and builder, William Fife III. On August 1, a remarkable rendezvous of Fife yachts will be on exhibi- tion at the Castine Town Dock, including 94- foot ketch BELLE AVENTURE (built in 1929); 94-foot ketch SUMURUN (built in 1914); 83- foot topsail schooner ADVENTURESS (built in 1924); 40’ sloop Fifi (built in 1921); and 36’ 6-meter sloop ALANA (built in 1930). The Castine event will represent the most signifi- cant gathering of Fife yachts ever assembled on this side of the Atlantic, according to its organizers.
This event follows on from last year’s Castine celebration of Nathanael Herreshoff yachts, which was hailed by Halsey Herreshoff as “the greatest collection of Herreshoff yachts in modern history”. The
Herreshoff yachts from Bristol, Rhode Is- land, and the Fife yachts from the small town of Fairlie on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, were fierce competitors on both sides of the Atlan- tic. They were regarded as leading designs of their era. “Fife yachts have long been es- teemed as among the most beautiful in the world”, according to a recently published commentary by designer Art Paine. The Fife yachts will be honored at a symposium on August 1 at 4PM in Delano Auditorium at the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. The symposium will review the design, construction and sailing qualities of these historic yachts. Taylor Allen of Rockport Marine will chair the discussion among the panel of restorers, historians and sailors of Fife yachts from both sides of the Atlantic. Rockport Marine, Rockport, Maine, is now completing a multi-year restoration of Adventuress.
The thirteenth annual Castine Classic
SUMURUN - 94’ LOD ketch built in 1914 (courtesy of Captain Armin Fischer)
Yacht Race to Camden will set sail from the Castine harbor bell at 11:30 AM on August 2. 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.
For additional information contact: David Bicks: Castine Yacht Club, 212-259- 8040 or Email:
dbicks@dl.com
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