Evening star., 1950-06-16
Fore AND AFT
By MoIcolm Lombome, Jr.

BY Molcolm Lombome, Jr.
Fun and frolic are in store for
Columbia Yacht Club members
Sunday when they stage their an
nual fiag-raising regatta starting
at noon.
Commodore George Hall will Of
ficiate at the flag raising and i'm
mediately thereafter Race Com
mittee Chairman Karl Gerhard
will take over. Shippers and crews
will start a free-for-all race to
Hams Point from the club
grounds. Sails may be bent on but
not hoisted in advance.
A team race over a windward-
1eeward course comes next. fol-
lowed by a power boat predicted
log race with the committee rul-
ing out use Of such handy gadgets
as stop watches and chrono-
meters. Also on the program are a
bang-and-go-back race for both
sail and power, a balloon race and
finally chance race back to the
club.
First, second and third place
prizes will be awarded that after
noon.
Washington area inboard driv-
ers. displaying good form in last
Sundays Norfolk regatta, will head
for the Wilson Point Mems Club
regatta north of Baltimore to-
morrow and Sunday. Tomorrow's
program includes 48 and 1885,
cubic Inch hydros and Pacific One
designs. D service runabouts and
225s race Sunday.
Outboard hydroplane fans will
steer a course in the opposite di-
rection-to the Eastern Carolina
Yacht Club regatta at New Bern,
N. c. It's the first sanctioned out
board regatta in American Power
Boat Associations region 4. Re-
gional Chirman Hudson Moses,
looking over the program, figures
AU and Gu class drivers, Of which
Washington has many, could en-
ter heats for A and c service run
abouts.
These shippers have qualified
for the Comet Glass territorial
championships to be held next
month at oxford, Md: Harvey
Lekson. Bob Ray, Karl Gerhard.
Edward Manders, Bill Straub.
John Roseborough and Russ
Parker.
Mark Dawson, of New York, a
member of the crew in the WASH
ington yacht Pavana for the Ber-
muda race. was playing the ju-
venile lead in the musical TITS
Great to Be Alive" a few weeks
back. This may sound strange,
but Dawson was secretly hoping
the show would fold in time for
him to join the Strong yacht
crew.
1t did and Pavana will have the
best cook-vocalist in the big fleet
of So starters, according to CO.
Skipper Pete Strong. Jim Potter,
another member of the crew is
a former Montana cowboy who's
said to be as good at hauling on
halyards as rounding up steer.
The Red Bank IN. J.) National
Sweepstakes Regatta has been
shifted from it's traditional mid
August date to September 2 and
3 because Of conflicts with regat-
tas at Baltimore and Buffalo. The
Gold Cup regatta at Detroit, the
Presidents Cup regatta here and
the Red Bank show have long
been known as the ''big three so
far as Gold Cup racers are con-
cerned.
Speaking of Gold Cuppers, this
season should see more new and
made over unlimited displacement
craft Chats the formal name for
a Gold Cup boat) than ever be-
fore. Henry Kaiser, West Coast
auto magnate. is even reported
willing to give the class another
try despite last years poor sue
cess with the Harmsworth boat
aluminium First (Which never was
f1rst) and Hot Metal (Which never
was hot).
And that old war horse NotreI
Dame, which shone so brightly
here and elsewhere in prewar days.
under Herb Mendelson, is staging
a comeback. She's been renamed
Gale and repowered with an Alli-
son airplane engine under a new
owner, Joe Suhoenith.