Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
B|GFLEET TO RACE
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Campbell, Strong Readying
Craft for New London
Gibson Island Run.
BX MALCOLM LAMBoRNE, JR.


~ MALCOLM LAMBORNE, JR.
A 3 OUTSTANDING blue water
n sailors OF the country prepare
~ their seagoing craft for the
a longest ocean race on the East
Coast this year, two yachtsmen in
Warrington are planning to enter this
N6-mtle coastwise contest, the New
London Gibson Island classic.
A feet Of SO or more yachts, which
should include Corrin Strong's A.
foot cutter and DR.. Elliott Campbells
bo-foot schooner, is expected for the
event starting from New London.
Conn, on June ~. The course will
take the boats down the coast to
Chesapeake Lightship of the Virginia
Cspss and up Chesapeake Bay to the
finish.
It III be the fourth race of its
kind held by the Gibson Island Yacht
Squadron, the last being In 1898.
Among the record number at the
starting line that year was Corrin
Strong, then sailing his 4O-foot
schooner Ataloa.
This year local entrants will be up
against plenty stiff competition judg-
ing from those who already have
signed. The famous iawl Stormy
Weather, winner Of the Miami Nassau
race last Winter, and the slocp Kira-
wan which won the Bermuda event
last year. will be among the starters.
Rumpus Sails for Bay.
SLIPP1NG her mooring at the
Capital Yacht Club yesterday, the
schooner Rumpus, with DR.. Campbell
aboard, got under way for the bay and
eventually Gibson Island where Doc"
Is likewise a member. When Rumpus
has had a self-bailing cockpit in
stalled, DR.. Campbell plans to start
north.
Built down east" in Thomaston.
Ne, Rumpus is stout gaff rugged
schooner with 1000 square feet of
canvas. Numbered among her sails
In spinnaker, a reaching foresail,
. balloon jib and square SAIL all
Tor light weather going. The schooner
has 12-foot beam and is 35 feet on
tho waterline.
A lifelong sailor. DOC" 1t might
be remembered, after being caught
IN the disastrous hurricane of August
1888. managed to keep his schooner,
BMejacket, afloat even when she had
been blown from the Jersey Coast to
near Cape Hatteras and part way
back again when the wind changed
to the southwest.
No novice, either, Is Corrin Strong,
who will be sailing his cutter, Narada.
Ten years q member of the Gibson
11And Club. Corrin has raced extern
stvely on the Chesapeake. In his
cutter, launched last June at the
D1sas shipyard In Solomons Island,
b Won the blue ribbon event Of the
b.. Vie Cedar Point race, on Labor
day.
Star Crew for Narada.
A GTHOUGH built primarily as
cruising boat, Narada proved
oonsthing Of . sensation to her owner
end the designer, Phil Rhodes. In
NJ second month Of her existence
ths cutter won the Gibson Island
hampton race in class B.
Karada, which, incidentally, Is an
INDIAN name meaning sparkling Wa
terx. wfll have for her crew such we'll
known bay yachtsmen as Larry Bail
lisr. who cleaned up in Southern
waters several years ago in his cutter,
Aveigh. winning the Miami Nassau
and the st. Petersburg Havana races;
G. Ellis Ellicott, jr., former commo-
dore Of Gibson Island Squadron, and
William Henderson, owner of the
yawl Kelpie, which has had long
and successful racing career.
And small boat sailors Of the
Potomac River Sailing Association
are looking ahead to their events in
the Presidents Cup regatta in Septem-
Der. Managing to obtain the week
end OF September Is, week prior to
the power races of the regatta, the
Executive Committee of the sailing
association this week announced selec-
ton Of committees.
Committees Organized.
NATIONALLY known figures in the
yachting world head the race
committee. They are Herbert L.
Stone, editor OF Yachting magazine
William r. Crosby, editor of Rudder
and executive secretary of the Snipe
and National classes, and DR.. John
Eman Of Philadelphia, president of
the Comet Glass Yacht Racing Associ-
alton.
Paul Tomalin, vice commodore of
the local sailing association Captain
Archer M. Allen, U. S. NJ; Adrian Sizer
Of the Capital Yacht Club and John
Fox who crewed on the famous yawl
Dorado in British ocean races, the
Fasnet and Cowes events, complete
the Race Committee set-up.
On the committee for arrangements
are Jack Marsh as chairman; Werner
Smythe, commodore of the Potomac
sailors, as vice chairman; Ted De-
Boer. entertainment; Judge Prentice
Darlington. trophies; M. D. Lamborne,
publicity; Arthur Clephane, finance;
Dan Fowler for the Capitol Yocht
Club, John Maloney for Corinthian
Yacht Club, Frank Levy of the Co.
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