Evening star., 1956-08-24
FORE AND AFT
By MALCOLM LAMB0RNE

With the Presidents Cup Re-
gatta sailing events only a month
of. important steps were taken
this week tosee that the program
is properly launched. The three
race series is set for September
1928, a week following the big
power boat show. Both will be
run off HainS Point on the Po-
tomac opposite National Airport.
Capt, Ed Powers, USN, was
named general chairman for
sailing, with Donald S. Wilson
as vice chairman.
Owen Oakley, a veteran Po-
tomac skipper, will head the race
committee which will have the
job of running the races for two
days. His vice chairman is 1t.
Comdr. w. Corlett Calvin, USN.
Other committee chairmen Sc
lected at a meeting in Columbia
Yacht Club were Sunny Kierst,
registration; Len Penso. Coast
Guard liaison; Bruce Wetmore,
general arrangements; Joseph
G. Hall. parking. and Sam VAN
derslice, entertainment.
Additional appointments will
be made in the next few days, in
cluding selection of a chairman
for the race committee.
Powers enthusiasm as a sailor
is shared by his family. He has
two boats.
He took up sailing here eight
years ago. starting out in a
Comet with his daughter, Nancy,
as crew. Later he bought a
faster Comet which started
bringing in the silverware. Nancy
later married and her sister,
Janice, took over in the jib sheet
department.
Now Janice is racing Tempest
dinghies with George Washing
ton University, and Powers has
graduated to the cruising class
with one Of the lovely Kings
Cruisers, a Swedish-built sloop.
He still keeps the Comet, prob
ably out Of affection.
Powers was commodore of Po-
tomac River Sailing Association
last year. and also has held office
in the Columbia Yacht Club and
the Potomac River Comet fleet.
He likewise is a member of West
River Sailing Club where the big
boat named Contessa is being
berthed.
Another regatta DEVELOPMENT
is the first luncheon of all COM
mittee chairmen and regatta
workers to be held Tuesday at
1890 pm. in the Caucus Room
of the Willard Hotel. This will
be preceded at IL am. by a meet
ing OF the Board of Directors.
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Bill Jarvis, the Washingtonian
who heads the Sailing Club of
the Chesapeake. is counting on
about 40 boats this week end
for the clubs second annual race
and rendezvous. The larger boats
sail a course down to Poplar Is
land. while the Deltas race over
to Kent Island. Both divisions
finish of the mouth of West
River. in time for the rendezvous
in Rhode River.
After the week end the bigger
windjammers start a week-long
cruise that will take them as far
south as Fishing Bay, Va. The
smaller cruisers will 60 as far as
the mouth Of the Potomac. then
start back. Race Committee
Chairman Ted Hoster again has
figured it all out so that the en-
tire fleet ends up over Labor Day
in Church Creek of South River.
Jarvis tells yarn about a jap
anese freighter bound for Balti-
more a few week ends ago that
stopped in the middle of the
Chesapeake and lay to for about
half an hour while an entire feet
OF racing boats went by. you
don't see that very often" Bill
commented. 1T was one Of the
finest tributes for racing men !
have ever seen"
Attending the Duster Glass ma
tionals this week end at Riverton.
n j.. are these four top Potomac
River sailors, Jack Lynch. Dick
Rademacher and Moe and John
Myers. . father and son team.