Evening star., 1939-08-27
Vest River Regatta Cap Biggest Sailing Season Chesapeake History
More Than 100 Craft
In II Divisions 10
Vie This Week
Woshingtonions Ahead
, In Trio of Glasses
Of Weekly Series
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
The most successful sailing year
In the history of yachting on Chesa-
peake Bay comes to close next
Saturday and Sunday at nearby
Galesville, Md, home port of the
West River Sailing Club, which
stages its 10th annual regatta.
With little letup since early June,
clubs of the Chesapeake Bay Yacht
Racing Association have chalked up
all-time records for entries. several
of them hitting the 200 mark. No
group reported a decrease over
previous years, although wind and
rain gods not always were kind to
some.
Open sailing competition does not
conclude until the Presidents Cup
Regatta next month, but on the bay
It's curtains next week end.
Better than 100 starters in II
divisions is predicted for the two
day regatta at the popular cruising
sailing center off Galesville and
Shady Side. This includes a 12-mile
handicap cruising race out in the
pay and the colorful free-for-all
event for boats between Is and 81
feet.
Twenty-FOOters to Start 1t.
Opening gun will be fired at 1920
am. Saturday, when the first of
two divisions of 20-footers competing
under the newly formed Twenty
Foot Glass Yacht Racing Association
gets under way off Cedar Point
near the river mouth. At five
minute intervals albatrosses, Hamp-
tons, 18-footers, comets, snipes,
16-footers, handicap boats and pen
guin class dinghies follow in that
order. Second heats are slated that
afternoon, beginning at 2:35.
cruising boats open Sundays
program at 1918 am. The fleet.
after a start at Cedar Point, work
out to middle ground buoy off
Beverly Beach, then down the Bay
to can 27A, thence back up to
Thomas Point light and return to
q finish at West River. There will
be prize for the first boat to finish
and first and second place trophies
for corrected time.
The third and final heats for all
classes round out the forenoon card.
At 2 pm. that marine scramble
known as free-for-all race winds
up the show In addition to craft
over Is feet, there's similar race
for boats under that length. It's
a race in which any combination of
sails is permitted including sky
sails. Springboards which often are
the only means of keeping boat on
Its feet are allowed and even recon-
mended
Dance Included in Entertainment.
On the entertainment side large
dance at the Galesville Hall has
been arranged. West River Sailing
Club trophies will be awarded at
River Lodge, Galesville, Sunday, at
8p.m. The Race Committee is COM
posed of j. Edward Smith of Gales
vile, Paul Tomalin of Washington
and 1t. Comdr. C. G. Halpine,
U. S. N, retired, well-known race
official of the Naval Academy and
Annapolis Yacht Club.
The Capital will have a goodly
share of its shippers in the 20-foot,
albatross, comet, snipe and penguin
classes.
This afternoon West River sailors
conclude their summer series of
weekly races. Figures released this
week by Commodore Osborn Owings
show Washingtonians leading in
. three of the five classes. Jack Zim-
mer in Babs heads the 20-foot
open, Judge Prentice Edrington
with Lady Avon. the 2O-foot re-
stricted, and Clyde Cruit in So-Big
the comet classes. Series prizes will
be presented next Sunday along with
regatta trophies.
Series standings up to today: