Evening star., 1940-05-31
Gibson Island 18-Mi|e
Event 10 Introduce
Bounty and Delta
Middies Will Turn Out
In Force; Vumorie to
Sail as Two-Muster
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.


The debut of two new classes
both emphasizing the boat for the
yachtsman of moderate means-will
be made this Sunday on Chesapeake
Bay when Gibson Island Yacht
Squadron opens the racing year with
the annual Swan Point-Love Point
race
They are the Rhodes designed
Bounty class, smart 32-foot cruising
cutter and the assorted boats of
the Delta Cruising Glass Association,
yachts of 20-foot rating.
Two of the new BountyS, only
recently arrived on the bay from the
North, will enter Sundays 18-mile
event, while between four and six
Deltas from Potapskut Sailing As
sociation near Baltimore will come
down to the island to compete.
With a start off Baltimore light,
Just opposite Gibson Island, the tri-
angular course will take the fleet of
cruising and racing yachts across
the bay to Love Point. thence up
the Eastern Shore to Swan Point
and return to the lighthouse.
Middies to Be Strong.
Glass A boats will lead off begin
ming shortly after II am, while
other divisions follow at 1O-minute
intervals.
The full force of the United States
Naval Academys growing fleet of
racing yachts is expected out. There
will be the big mahogany ketch
Vamarie, veteran of many ocean and
bay races, and the three new 45-foot
one-design yawls that Middies con-
tinue to sail up among the bays
best shippers.
This race, incidentally, will mark
Vamarie's first appearance on the
bay as two-maSteG ketch, her
original design.
The former owner, Vadim Makar-
off, stepped small jigger mast on
the stern, carrying minute spread
of canvas, to improve the ships
steering ability. Capt. Howard Ben
son, the present skipper, ordered the
mast taken out for experimental
purposes.
Bountys entered in the curtain
raiser are Johnny Sherwood's Gibson
Girl from the Gibson Island Y. S.
and Emory Rice's Estelle II of An
napolis Y. C.
Sherwood, returned this week
after bringing his Bounty down
from City Island, N. Y, in COM
pany with Rice's cutter, reports: ITO
my mind these boats are perfect
for Chesapeake Bay and for a fell
low who wants to maintain his own
boat without a paid hand. They
are just exactly the right size.
The rig is simple and easy to
handle"
Performs Well in Seaway.
He and his crew of three had an
opportunity also to see how the
boats behave in seaway Gibson
Girl took a busting off Barnegat,
N. j., but performed very we'll,
Yachtsman Sherwood writes.
Skylark, third Bounty owned
by Baltimorean Jack Williamson,
might arrive in time of the start
after being delayed on the Jersey
coast as a result of bad weather.
A fourth Bounty is nearing COM
pletion for Ed Palmer and Carroll
Williams, also of Baltimore.
Washington will be represented
by the clubs commodore, Corrin
Strong. His fast cutter Narada won
the class B event last year and is
rated we'll to repeat.
For the Deltas it's their first big
event in life that began last year.
Organized in the early spring, the
class received the blessing of Chesa-
peake Bay Yacht Racing Associa-
tion this spring when C. B. Y. r. A.
announced its formation and class
rules in its 1910 race schedule.
Events already slated for the
little Deltas include an overnight
race on the upper bay June % and
% and special events at both Po-
tapskut S. A. regatta, June % and
30, and Miles River Y. C., August
!, 2 and 3.
All former class D cruising boats
under the bay rule are eligible for
listing with the Delta association,
providing they are more than 20
feet overall and are equipped rea-
sonably for seaWorthiness.