Evening star., 1937-07-04
scouts at Jan'boree Are Offering Nouel Regatta TOMORROW,
BOYS ARE TO SAIL
CRAFT THEY BUILT
Yacht, Boat, Canoe Clubs,
Red Cross Life-Savers
to Help Fill Card.
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE. Jr.

BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
= EA SCOUTS from New England,
from the Mississippi River coun-
try and from the arid plains Of
the West and Southwest here
for the jamboree will hold a regatta
OF Hains Point tomorrow afternoon
under auspices of the Potomac River
Sailing Association. with two races in
each of three sailing classes, canoe
fitting and padding and whaleboat
competition.
Combining the best features of the
Navy, Coast Guard and yachting, in
an advanced program of scouting for
older boys, Sea Scouts are planning a
full program of events under direc-
ton of Commodore Werner Smythe. B.
N, Richardson, Sea Scout commodore
OF Davenport, Iowa. and Lester G. Will
son, commodore of the District Council.
The starting gun for the opening
event, sallboat racing, will be fired
shortly after o'clock from Adrian
Sizer's cruiser AdonS, which is acting
as committee boat.
From among more than 1900 Sea
Scouts in the jamboree. a select group
of boys will serve as crews on board
the comets, u of which are expected
at Capital Yacht Club tomorrow
morning. The Scouts will be in each
boat along with the owner or skipper
RainbOws Not Costly.
HEN there are the rainboWs, little
l2-foot sailing scoWs with a single
sail and the appearance of moth
only with more freeboard, that will
race In class. Twelve of them came
from Toledo, Ohio, on Wednesday,
nome of their designer. Sea Scout
Skipper Bill thinner. Ali homemade
AFFAIRS, including the sails, they can
not cost over S25 and are built by
the Scouts. In fact, there is one in
the fleet that cost its owner s175O
to launch, ready for sailing
Several moths and two class x
sloops from st. Louis, Mo, are ex-
pected out and will join up on a
handicap basis. The class KS are
lS feet over all, carry 1873 square feet
OF canvas and look fast. Races have
been scheduled for 2:l0 and $50
with one-lap course of 1000 wards
around the point.
At 3 O'Clock 1t has been planned for
Judge Prentice Edrington, we'll
known star class champion and in
local yachting, skipper of the 2O-foot
Lady Avon, to give a l5- minute
broadcast over N. B. c. on progress
OF the races from a station on the
point.
Many Special Contests.
REG1NNING at 4 o'clock when the
spectator ranks around the wall
Will be swelled by a number of Bow
scouts released from programs in
other sectors Of the encampment,
aquatic events under the guiding
hand of Aubrey Bogley of Potomac
Boat Club will take the spotlight.
Aubrey is supplying equipment and
canoes for the Scouts to engage in
fitting contests off the seawall, but
with a place handy for the dunked
boys to get ashore.
There will be Red Cross life
saving demonstration by picked
Scouts and canoe races. The latter
Will be over an eighth of a mile
course from the landing on the
Washington Channel side of the point.
north for that distance. Also on
hand will be three of the new KAYAK
type canoes, the folbot, sent down
from New York for the occasion.
The nightcap of the regatta will
be Whaleboat race of approximately
10 craft manned by Sea Scout crews
from the various ships" which is
Sea Scout for troop Boats will be
be recruited from the Navy and
Coast Guard. Also the Washington
Canoe Club is sending down eight or
ten canoes for competition among
members.
Training Boat at Regatta.
IN ADDITION to the familiar Coast
Guard cutter Apache, which lies
anchored in the Georgetown Chan
mel, and the new U. S. s. Porter. a
fleet-leader destroyer, visited daily
by details OF Scouts, there is on hand
for the regatta the 35-year-old
schooner Tabor Boy from Marion.
Mass, which has aboard is young
sailors and officers who came down
from New England in six days. The
9o-foot gaffed-rigged ship is a train
Ing vessel for bays of Tabor Academy.
Corinthian Yacht Club Sea Scouts
with Dick Winfield in charge of the
catboat Bobcat and Charles Krey
sklppering the Wildcat have been
busy every day taking visiting Scouts
out for sails. Skipper Fred Tip re-
ports that cockpits have been
crammed on each trip and that some
OF the out-of-town boys are being
taught real nautical lingo. Daniel
Raoenhorst, who sailed Bobcat to
nrst place of class A in the Spring
series Of the Potomac River Sailing
Association, was awarded free
scholarship to the jamboree follow
ing competition among leading Sea
otOuto III LIE DlSCrlCt.
Cruises Start Next Sunday.
NEXT Sunday. incidentally, at the
conclusion of the jamboree, the
first of three long cruises on the Po-
tomac River begins for the two cat
boats. Remaining in communication
via semaphore signals while under
way, the cats will visit every impor-
tant harbor Of the Potomac down
to the Little Wicomico inside of
Smith Point. Tip will be in charge
of the initial cruise with Rabenhorst
and Krey as bo'suns,
First Mate Robert Hedges COM
mands the second cruise slated to
begin on August 2. And for the Scout
that ho 1off l,