The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
YACHT CLUB PLANS
BIG RACE SEASON
Three Day Invitational Event
To Be Highlight Of 1910
Competition

The Carolina Yacht club, one of
the oldest in the United States, is
planning it's most active season in
the sailing contest field this sum-
mer.
Since the dredging of Banks
channel was completed as a part
of the beach erosion control prof.
ect, sailing addicts have found the
waters at Wrightsvil1e Beach I'm
usually fine for their sport and
greater interest has been taken in
the contests which are staged
there.
The first race this year will be
held Sunday afternoon, June
Is, at $3.50 O'Clock. Other races
are planned for Aug. 10 at 3:3C
pm; Aug. II at 4 pm; Aug. "a
at 3 pm. and Sept. 2 Labor Day.
at $3.50 o'clock. In addition the
usual Davis cup races and the
Nets trophy races will be held,
But the highlight of the season
for the flowers of sailing will be
the invitational races which will
be held there July 4, 5 and 6 If
which sailing boats from all Of
the southern section of the Atlantic
Seaboard are expected to see &C
ton.
Raymond Demaret, who ha.
made quite a name for himself If
South Atlantic racing circles in hi:
Mischief, and F. w. Scheper, Jr.
of Beaufort, S. c., whose Syndi
cate has attained great fame, are
both expected to participate in the
three day event, as r a number
of other noted figures in the worle
of canvas and rope.
: Demaret, incidentally, h a S Sc
cured a new boat, built along thu
lines of the Stardust, owned b,
John Colucci, and is expected tt
be something of a threat to al
corners in the three-day festival
Locally there is also to be ;
new craft in the competition, will
Walter Parsley generally consider
ed the man to watch. Parsley hal
secured a new edition of the an
cient Dixie, one of the fastest Clas!
c boats which has ever sailet
waters of this section and if thu
new edition car come anywhere
near the mark of the original
other competitors r going to SEE
much of the wake of the speedy
craft.
The races this year, it has beer
announced, will be staged alons
slightly different lines from thos'
Of previous years. Due to the three
day event to be staged July 4,
and s, the annual competition o
the yacht club, in which the boat
have competed for the club fal
on Independence Day each yea
since well before the War between
the States, will be discontinued.
Again this year the races will
be held in the form of a poin
series, in which each boat in eacl
race will be given one point fol
finishing and one point for ever.
other boat it defeats.
An innovation this year will b.
the awarding to the winning boa
in Glasses A and B and to tn
winning boat in Glasses c and l
and in the Moth boat class a win
ner's pennant, which will be flow
by that craft until the next cluI
race, when it will be taken owe
by the craft winning in that race
At the end Of the season tn
boats winning the most points i
Glasses A and B, in Glasses c an
D, and in the Moth Boat elias
will each be awarded permaner
possession Of the winners flag
their respective classes as well a
the season trophies which ar
usually awarded.
Among the boats which r e1
pected to take part in the usus
club races are the Stardust, owne
by John Colucci, and the Caroline
owned by Jimmy Sprunt, in Clas
A; The Queen Mary, owned 3
Jimmy Nets and Henry Taylor
the Pirate owned by Henry Hug
gins and the Teal, owned b
Everett Higgins in Class B; Tn
Dixie, owned by Walter Parsley
the Rebel, owned by Donald Pa
slev. .Jr.. the CALYPSO, owned b