September 2008 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 5.
Castine Classic Race
Dorade, the famed 52’ yawl designed honors. Valiant, the 64’ 12 Meter America’s presented the Ames Cup to
by Olin Stephens in 1929 when he was 21 Cup contender designed by S&S and Edgar Cato of Dorade as
years old, led a fleet of 47 boats in the ninth skippered by Gary Gregory, took line honors overall winner of the Castine
annual Castine Classic Yacht Race to in the class but was almost three minutes Classic Yacht Race. The
Camden. The race celebrated Stephens’ behind the leader on corrected time. White Ames Cup honors the
100th birthday. Stephens, on board the Wings, the 76’ W-76 class sloop designed by memory of Richard Glover
Race Committee boat, proclaimed Dorade’s Bob Stephens (no relation to Olin) and built Ames and Henry Russell
victory “the greatest birthday present by Brooklin Boatyard in 1998, finished third Ames, who were lost at sea on
ever,” according to event chairman David in the class. June 19, 1935 south of the
Bicks. A Buzzards Bay 30s/Gaff Class was Grand Banks, in an
Dorade launched Stephens’ career as added to recognize the four Buzzard Bay 30s unsuccessful effort to save
the premier yacht designer of the twentieth 47’ sloops, originally built by Herreshoff in their father who was washed
century. In 1929 he founded Sparkman & 1902. They were recently restored by overboard during the
Stephens (S&S), which continues today as French & Webb in Belfast, Maine and Newport to Bergen, Norway
one of the world’s leading design firms. In Darling’s Boatworks in Charlotte, Vermont. yacht race.
1931, Olin and his brother Rod took the A match race amongst the Buzzard Bay 30s Dorade also won the
Olin Stephens
yachting world by storm, sailing Dorade to (the first in 78 years) was held in Castine on Sparkman & Stephens
decisive victories in the transatlantic race July 30. Mashnee, the Marconi rigged boat
trophy awarded to the S&S
from Newport to England, and the Fastnet sailed by Jan Rozendaal beat the three gaff
boat with the lowest
SURVEYORS FOR
Race. Upon their return to the United States, rigged sloops.
corrected time. MAINE'S MARINE COMMUNITY
the crew of Dorade was honored with a New In the Buzzard Bay 30s/Gaff fleet in the
The Phalarope Trophy
York ticker-tape parade up Broadway. Classic race, Joyant, the 58’ Herreshoff gaff
was presented to Alex Kuli,
Under clear skies and a light rigged sloop built in 1912 and skippered by
skipper of the top Concordia
southwesterly breeze, the large fleet set sail Bob McNeil, took first, followed by Lady M,
yacht, Absinthe. The
ASSOCIATED
in five classes from the Castine Harbor bell skippered by Payson Offield and Young
Phalarope Trophy honors the
on a 19.6 nm course ending off Curtis Island Miss sailed by Victor Paul, both Buzzards
memory of Castine sailor
MARINE SURVEYORS
in Camden. Bay 30s.
Thomas G. Ashton, Sr.
Dorade, sailed by Edgar Cato in Classic The inaugural Marblehead to Castine
Bob Scott, skipper of the
A, bested Thomas Hills’ 52’ “Q” boat Race, sponsored by the Castine Yacht Club
New York 32 Falcon,
Falcon by almost 10 minutes on corrected and the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead,
presented the Mitch
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time. Falcon, formerly named Hayday, was kicked off the Castine Classic yacht
Gibbons-Neff trophy
last year’s winner. Siren, a 45’ New York 32 celebration. The 15 boat fleet set sail from
(awarded in memory of Mitch
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designed by S&S in 1936 and skippered by Marblehead on July 27 on a 143 nm course
Gibbons-Neff, late head of
Peter Cassidy, took third place. across the Gulf of Maine and up Penobscot
S&S), to Peter Cassidy of
The Classic B class was led by Rogue, Bay to Castine. The fleet encountered
Siren, as the top New York 32
a 40’ Herreshoff design built in 1953 and squalls up to 38 knots and confused seas.
in the Penobscot Bay series.
Lower Falls Landing
sailed by Seville Simonds. Aloft, a 40’ Hood The W-76 Wild Horses, skippered by
Mitch regularly raced on
sloop skippered by Jack Farrell took second Donald Tofias, took Class A honors,
Falcon.
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and Bonnie, a 48’ S&S design sailed by followed by Bruce Dyson’s 8 Meter Pleione
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Alber Diran took third. and Valiant, skippered by Gary Gregory.
In Classic C, Thora, a Hood designed Seminole, Elizabeth Meyer’s 47’ Lawley
Little Harbor 36 skippered by Vince Todd, yawl built in 1916, won Class B, followed by
took honors. Arabesque, a 38’ S&S yawl the 46’ S&S ketch Mermaid sailed by Brooke
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built in 1959 and sailed by Dan Gregorie won Parish and Capella, a 40’ Tripp design
second. Third position went to Aegir, a 38’ skippered by Homer Skinner.
Alden design sailed by Edith Larsen. At the awards ceremony at the Wooden
Pleione, a 48’ 8 Meter sloop sailed by Boat School in Brooklin following the
Bruce Dyson, took Spirit of Tradition Class Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, David Bicks
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