Evening star., 1952-05-09
Yacht Parade Sunday
To Cap Flag Raising
OF Corinthian Club


Washington will have it's first
springtime yacht parade within
anyone's memory, starting off
Corinthian Yacht Club Sunday at
4::3O pm.
AS many as 40 gayly-decorated
pleasure craft. all flying the Cor
inthian flag. will cruise around
the Washington waterfront for
about an hour and a half. Yachts
of all sizes, designs and ages will
participate. and the total may 60
as high as so.
The marine parade is the high
light of Corinthians flag raising
and shadbake, which annually
marks the opening of the boating
season for the popular club locat-
ed just above Fort Lesley McNair
on the Anacostia River.
Commodore Victor Kayne and
his staff of flag officers will Off
ciate at the flag raising at 3 pm.
Two hours earlier, however, the
gates will be opened for members
and guests who will lay a course
for the Shad and trimmings.
Miller Heads Procession.
At about 4 pm. members will
start boarding their yachts and if
all goes we'll. the parade will be
off at 4::30 pm. Leading the flo
tilla will be Fleet Capt. Jack
Miller. who knows as much about
such matters as any man afloat.
Aboard his roomy, 40-foot Mat
thews Sea Nymph will be mem
bers of the Corinthian amateur
orchestra, plus other guests.
Next in line will be Commodore
Haynes Victinia K. II, followed
by the yachts of other officers.
The fleet cruises first up the
Anacostia. past Eastern Power
Boat Club and Washington Yacht
Club. as far as Sousa Bridge
where they swing downstream
again. They then cruise up Wash
ingEon Channel, past Columbia
and Capital Yacht Clubs and
swing around off Washington Ma
rina for a return to Hains Point.
The course is then laid up George
town Channel, past Potomac Boat
Club, Washington Canoe Club and
Dempsey's Canoe Club, as far as
the Three Sisters. The course
downstream from there is the
longest of the afternoon-all the
way to Alexandria for a turn
abount off Old Dominion Boat
Club. The fleet will disband off
Hains Point.
Parade Yachts Listed.
The yachts entered to date:
DR.. A. B. Benefits Aragon II,
w. c. Burgess Miss Peggy B., Ed
ward M. Burnham's cruiser, AS
sistant Secretary of State Henry
Byroade's Lorelei. Robert Carson's
Sea Tabby II, Jim Councillors
PaJa, Ivan L. Farman's Shiela,
Frank Fragale's West Wind. DR..
Edgar D. Grifflns Idle House, E.
Carl Hengen's Lorraine, Donald
Holmes Donald Duck II. Jack
Jacobson's Spica, Conny Jadwin's
El-Co-Ed, Commodore Haynes
Victina K. II, William Hendricks
Vallejo II. Royce Leonard's Kitty,
Guy M. Longs Melann, Frank
Macaboy. Jr.'s Lazy Life, Rear
Commodore Harold McCann's
cruiser. Miller's Sea Nymph. James
w. Orme's Miss Lizzie, Kelvin M.
Pardoe's Betsue, John N. Rodgers
Mary r.. Alfred Sparhott's Spar
kie, Cleon E. Stanley's Marcleon,
Elbert Tunes Sunny Daze, John
S. VOLTS Hoot Mon, Charles E.
Wylie's Susan NJ, Federal Trade
Commissioner Lowell B. Mason's
Arcturus III, George Simons, Jr. IS
Blue Fin, Hudson Moses Smoke
Ring, Gordon Malkie's Aragon,
Daniel Blain's Sykee, Vice Com
modore Marvin Broyhill, Jr.'S.
Audmar. Elliott Pardee's Sea Lion,
DR.. Herbert P. Ramsey's Lupita.
Charles Riddles Sinbad, Weber
Knights BERTHE Mae, Don John
sons Dottie, Ray Reeds Yardeer
and Vernon L. Weihe'S Picardi.
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