Evening star., 1937-06-13
.HE Fo'c'sle Club came into be-
ing this week at a meeting of
Presidents Cup Regatta As

Presidents Cup Regatta As
L sociation members, and with it
a unique scheme to bring together
those men who are contributing to-
ward the success of this years man.
moth civic event in September.
Like a ships forecastle-sailors'
quarters to landlubbers-the Fo'csle
Club will be the gathering place for
local leaders in many walks of life.
VINO convene on the first Monday
of each month throughout the year
to plan big things in the way of a
ns utlcal show for Washington citi-
zens. AS the season draws near, meet
lngs will be stepped up; next month
oi-Weekly gatherings, and after Au-
gust, every Monday until September
20, beginning of regatta week.
Not only will members discuss
matters nautical, but everything
connected with the club will be
treated, as though aboard ship.
Jim Councillor, general chairman of
the regatta, will be skipper; Gordon
Leech, board member, is going to be
bo'sun, and Harry Smith bosuns mate,
Eight bells will be struck at conven-
ing time, when "gob" members come
up the gangplank.
And when the steamer Potomas ic
chartered, on June %, for the asso-
cations annual cruise down the
river, where could the Fo'c'sle Club
find a more suitable place to get
together than in the forecastle OF
the S. S. Potomac? Yes, they're ac-
tually planning to take over that
part of the boat for the night.
THREE classes of the Potomac
River Sailing Association feet
wind up the Spring series today off
Halns oPint when comets. class A
handicap, and B handicap boats sail
their sixth race of the season.
There were two shippers at the asso-
citation meeting to present Memorial
Gay regatta prizes Wednesday night
who didn't expect to go away with
any such trophies they received.
Ralph Youngs and R. S. Cochran
were given handsome "dunking tro-
phies' made by Paul Tomalin. Of
sponges in the cup form with a var.
nlshed wood base. Reason for award:
Capsizing in recent squalls off Hains
Point.
Judge Prentice Edrington is Won
derlng who is the latest person or
persons to carry off the GEORGETOWN
Channel turning mark, a yellow oil
drum. Week before last it disappeared
for the third time and a rowboat was
substituted for the races last Sunday.
While on the subject of pests,
We might bring up, if only briefly
and with our neck stuck out,
the never to be settled problem
of power boats that won't slow
down when they approach
group of small sailing craft.
The yachtsman that speeds his
boat with wake like a destroyer
over or across a race course and rolls
one of the boats nearly under is to
be classed with the hit-and-run driver
ashore.
A BOUT 5000 yards of shoal water
of the Old Dominion Boat Club
is to be dredged out this week from
the lower end of the club at the finger
wharf to within so feet of the tor
pedo wharf and riverward to deep
water. Something like 80 boat owners
will be benefited by the clearing
out of four feet of silt that has L.,
nearby since the flood this Spring.
An average of 10 oarsmen have
been out at weekend practice at
the Alexandria club, in quads, gigs
and single sculls. Shortly rowing
members hope to gather a crew for
the eight-oar and she'll
THIRD and final race for the
George A. Whiting Trophy, SYM
bolic OF 8-meter supremacy on Chesa-
peake Bay, is to be sailed this morn
ing off Baltimore Light under spon-
sorship Of the Gibson Island Yacht
Squadron with the sloop Loke Of