Evening star., 1955-02-18
FORE AND AFT
BY MaIeolm Lamborns. Jr.

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ter, but for the yachting en-
thusiast the next few days here
and in Baltimore promise to be
as busy as a mid-August regatta
week end. -
Biggest attraction locally is
! the annual Columbia Yacht Club
frostbite regatta. an annual az
fair that promises to draw bet
ter than so windjammers for
two days Of competition on
Washington Channel. Racing be-
gins at noon tomorrow and 10
am. on Sunday. Prizes will be
awarded at Q pm. Sunday.
Regatta Chairman Ed Powers
has slated seven national one
design classes for the week end
They are Thistles. Lightnings,
Comets, Snipes. Penguins, Tenn
pests and International las. This
last class was added only in the
last few days after word from
Annapolis that four will be COM
ing over. Ben Minor again will
run the races. the eighth annual
in this series honoring Washing
toms birthday.
Event No. 2 Of large propor-
tions is the opening next Tues
day Of the first annual Chesa-
peake Bay Boat Show. Starting
time, according to Show Man
ager Billy Ames. is 2 pm. and
closing is II pm. This goes on
each day through February 81
at the 5th Regiment Armory in
Baltimore. Price for adults Is
IS cents and children, As cents.
/ More than a hundred boats are
on display, including two mod
ern crafts from Japan and
Sweden.
Jack Styron of Washington
Marina opens his own boat show
on Maine avenue today. 1t
runs daily through February 81
with hours from noon to 9 pm.
except Sunday when it's noon to
4 pm. He has some 20 boats
on display, including the lovely
41-foot walk-around Richardson
cruiser. plus the latest in boat
gadgets.
AL Bauer, well known regatta
referee and announcer, is COM
ing down from Philadelphia for
the Capital Power Boat Associa-
tion's March 4 regatta creep
stakes at Chris Heurich's hospi-
tality hall. Bauer will officiate
in the usual dual capacity and
help add an air of dignity to the
event.
To refresh your memory, this
is the event in which local and
nearby race drivers will tear
around the dance floor on those
little stands used by garage
mechanics. Prizes are planned
for some seven heats. plus a
grand finale race. Before and
after this there will be dancing.
Proceeds aid the association in
financing its inboard-outboard
regatta next July 1924.
Washington's lone entry In
the Comet Glass mid-winter
championships now underway at
Miami Is veteran Harvey Lekson
of Columbia Yacht Club. At
stake is the 16-year-old Don @
trophy. which was raced for
before the war in San Juan,
Puerto Rico. A Potomac River
skipper has yet to win the prize.
Another mid-winter series in
the making is the Manatee River
Penguin fleet races at Palmetto.
Fla, March 1918. # there is a
good turnout, sponsors want to
make it an annual affair.
If anyone has a very old Uni
versal Motors inboard engine, it
might pay him to write the COM
pany about 1t at Oshkosh, Wis.
In order to complete its museum
OF marine gasoline engines dat
ing back to 1893, the firm is Of
ferlng $3.50 to the owner of the
Universal model c engine with
the lowest serial number. One
important requirement: It must
be in running condition. No
dredging up old anchor moor
ingS.
Two area drivers hope to be
racing this week end in power
regattaS at Miami and West
Palm Beach. They are John
McKever, who races the 49,
hydro Widgeon and Joe Palmer.
who is back in the 135-hydro
class with his ninth Tommy Boy.
The Miami regatta, postponed
from last week end because of
high winds, will be run tomor-
row and the West Palm Beach
event on SUNDAY