Evening star., 1940-06-28
Colonial Beach Event
Opening Tomorrow
Tops Big Card
Baltimore, Chesapeake
Boy, Hompton, Richmond
Meets Fill Program
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE. Jr.

BY MALCOLM LANBORNE, Jr.
The seasons most extensive week
OF raclng-and one of the most
crowded in Chesapeake Bay yacht
ing history-opens today at Colonial
Beach, Va, and continues through
July in wide flung regattas from
the northern portion of the Eastern
Shore to the James River at Rich
mond,
Included on the racing calendar
for the next 10 days are:
First annual regatta at Colonial
Beach concluding Sunday.
Second annual regatta of the
PotapSkut Sailing Association near
Baltimore. tomorrow and Sunday.
Start of the 170-mile Gibson
1sland-Hampton race next Thurs
day.
Fourth annual regatta of the Rock
Hall Yacht Club next Thursday and
Friday
Hampton Yacht Club regatta, July
s, and 7.
Outboard racing at Richmond,
July and 7.
First annual regatta at Fairhaven,
Md, on July 4.
ID. c. Boats in All Events.
Washington's sailors and speed
sters will be represented virtually
by all of the events, including the
long distance run to Hampton.
which rates as the most important
sailing race of the year.
This marks the first time large
cruising yachts have sailed down
the bay to Hampton since 1888
Colonial Beach. long favorite
layover for local yachtSmen cruising
the lower reaches of the Potomac
River. makes bid for the boatman
who likes his sport at the tiller of
sailing craft or the wheel of a
racer. Coming Just before the
opening of the extensive Virginia
Peninsula racing circuit for out
boards over the Fourth, the Colonial
Beach affair promises to attract a
number of circuit riders.
Thirty-four sail and speedboat
events are on the card The latter
will hold forth in the relatively
calm waters of Monroe Bay, while
windiammers will have the broad
eXpanse of the river in front of the
beach. The regatta is being held
in conjunction with the fifth an
nual American Legion Festival
Gill to Test New Outboard.
G. Bache Gill. jr., son of Corin-
THAN Yacht Clubs commodore, has
chosen Colonial Beach as the debut
spot for his new Jacoby- built midget
class outboard. If the outfit proves
successful he plans to continue on
down to the Richmond Hampton
sector
Their overnight race for delta
class boats sailed last week end,
members Of the Potapskut club
devote this week end to smaller
sailing classes. The regatta, which
begins tomorrow afternoon and con-
tinues all day Sunday. includes a
two-race series for snipes, comets.
star, 20-footers and cruising and
racing division yachts.
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gatta will be devoted exclusively to
sail, classes holding forth on the
Eastern Shores Chester River.
1t is the Virginia neck. however,
that will see the most heated com.
petltlon-big yachts battling it out
for the Virginia Cruising Cup for
the first boat to complete the TO-
mile course. outboards racing next
Friday at Hampton and the next
two days at Richmond apd assorted
sailing classes taking over the
Hampton scene the same two days.
Four Calsses to Compete.
Glasses A, B, C and F outboards
will compete, as well as midgets and
service runabouts Power races
have been sanctioned b. the Amer
ican Power Boat Association and
the National Outboard Association,
while sailing events are under
auspices of Chesapeake Bay Yacht
Racing Association.
Racing officials of West River
Sailing Club as well as a number
of its shippers are expected to at
tend the Fairhaven Yacht Club re-
gatta on the Fourth.
Fairhaven's first try at a regatta
will open at l pm. on Herring Bay,
although chance race from West
River TO Fairhaven slated for that
morning will unofficially give the
affair its start. Events are sched-
uled for 20-footers of divisions l and
2, albatrosses, comets, 18-footers, To-
footers and penguin dinghies.