A N~Wcom~R Joins Th~ Sacr~D Six~S
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/ ( \., A N~wcom~r Joins th~ Sacr~d Six~s By WILLIS H UNT A few montru ago I bought the Six Meter Caprice and have /I yar·a)· :1nd Clio. In the very first fi ve-race series a different had so much pleasure and excitement with her that I simply boat won each race, which gives a good iJe:t of how evenly have to tell the world about it. Now that the most important matched the Sixes are. Naturally then the class "took" at once, races are pas t, I :1m kicking myself all :~round the block because so that between 1928 and 193 2 it grew to fourteen boats. In I didn't have sense enough to buy her until late in July. the order in which they appeared on this coast, they :1rc: Of course I know yachtsmen :1re saying that our Six Meter t, 1- t.ly Bmy; 2, SmileJ; 3, fl,trpool/ ; 4, Syllnou ; 5, , \f.~)be ; Class is dead, or at least dying. However, it is noticeable th.at 6, ~f y.ry,ty ; 7, Olio; 8, C.tprice ; 9. Lan:ti ; 10. Rippln : 11 , th is mournful prediction comes only from outsiders; you don't N,u.rd; 12, ,\1 pru y; 13, S.tlunu; 14, Galla111. hear it from the skippers and crews of the Sixes themsc:lves. All h,l\'e raced in the class .It one time or .tnothcr, excepting They aren't worrying, they are racing, and getting plenty of 1-:rdy 8 1'11)', and .all .are in Southern C:~liforni.t .11 the present fun out of it. tune. Those th.lt .are now being active!)' r.tced .tre seven : It seems to me that the boats themselves are just the ri,l(ht Synnott', A )··t)ll)'. C.tpri((! , Lm.ti. Uippln. S.rlum.t .1nd G <IIIant. size-big enough to be fast and able in almost any weather, )'et Since fou r of our fourteen .are hopelessly outbuilt, the full small enough so that handling them is never a chore. With str,·ngth of the class now musters ten. Seven active bo.1ts out their double cockpits and well placed gadgets the crew ne\·er often Joes not look like a d)·ing ci.ISS to me, espe CI .tlly since get in one :~ nother ' s w:1y, .and there is no .lltempt at "c,abin ,\f.t)btr now h.ails from S.an Diei-(O. Of the two others on the accommodations," so-oiled, to cramp the avail.able working ret ired li~t. N.ti.11l h.as been con\·trted to :10 :auxili.1ry .1nd space. ,\1)'•11'1')' is not raced often beca u ~e her owner a l ~ o Jus .10 E i~ht . But I can state wath confidence that ,\I 'fJiay will h.l\'e .1 new But, in order to show that it isn't my neophyte enthusiasm owner b)' February, .1ml it wouJ,I not be surprising to see that makes me so strong for the Sixes, I will give some f:1<ts I N ai.u/'1 skipper tire of time .1 llowancc r.ac ing .10J turn to bo.at· have taken the trouble to collect. for-bo.1t stuff, particuLarly since his bo.at is gener;ally considered The cl.ass was really st:1 rted on this coa~ t with the Mid the best point winner of the bunch. Prob.ably some e.tstern winter Regatt:1 of 1928, when three eastern Sixes came out to Sixes will be broul-(ht here soon, .as there .are sever.tl ,a.:ooJ bo.ats compete for the Ben Meyer Trophy. At the time the e.1sterners for sale there at low prices. were invited the Pacific Coast had two bo.at s, the uttly Bf ff)'. Now, there are mne probable contenders .It the Midwinter of 19t 5 vintage, and the Smiln. bu ilt in t921. Both were out · Re,l(.ltta. These are nil Pacific Co.ast craft. With two or three classed, so our y.Khtsmen had to bestir themselves, which they of them under new ownership .111d with the po s.~ ab i l i ty of two did with creditable alacrity. In the South the Wilmin,l(ton Boat or thtee new f.Kes in the lineup of sailmg bo .at ~ purch.t cJ in the Works built the Pottcr-desi,l(ned Harpoon .11 their own expense, wlule a Newport Harbor Y:ICht Club synd icate purchased the Last. the uncert.ainty will probably l.lst until the wmning gun S)'lmt•e from Anker & Jensen in Norw:ty. S.1 n f'rancasco B:ay in the J.ast contest. y.1chtsmen \'ery sport ily c.ame to our .as i ~ t .an c e with the .\l.t)beo. Conlimm l lo p.Jg ~ IS \'cry low L'ni\'ers:t l r:tting makes her :tl· to give way to 8.11.ul tow:lf(J the enJ. In most unbeatable. My guess is there would 1932 the battle between Gallant anJ be loud and prolonged cheering in cert:tm N ,ti,ul attaineJ Homeric proportions. The be loud .mJ prolonged cheering if she: next couple of years there was nobody to could go back to cbss r:tcing. Jispute Gallan(J supremacy, although £u,tp.J.Ie .1nu A/t,ww took second :tnd ,\I)Jiery was becoming more and more of third pl.1ces respecti\'cly ; Branht w:ts a factor, until 1935 and 1936 found her fourth, WeJ/tuml fifth, At.tl.tr sixth :tnu in the le.1J most of the time. This }'C.lr Dm.t.le List m the Sloop :tnd Y.twl Cbss. Lm.11 has again been tops. Now I .1sk you, what does a racing THE SACRED SIXES skipper Wlnt :tbove everything el ~e? The Coutimml from Po~g<' /5 .1nswer can onl)• be one thing-even com petition. He wants to feel th.1t if he At the present time I will :~dmit tlut some of the owners are not keeping their mlkes a real effort to keep his boat up. to ships in top form. Th:tt is the re.1l b:tsis find her best trim and to hanJie her well. for the predictions of dislster. Yet with he hl s ln even chance with the rest. I nine to twelve entries for the Midwinter ha\'e founJ just that condition in the Six there will be plenty of incentive for lll Meter Class. My ucing recorJ with the hands. The history of the cl.tss for the Caprice to Jate is not too good. But I plst nine ye.~rs shows conclusively th.tt know thlt my boat is potentially just as every bo.1t is a potcntiJI winner. For the J.:OOU as any of the others. I have a J.1rn first two ye.1rs it w.1s mostly , \l.~ybe or gooJ crew, we are :til keen to win ; so if Ay''J''Y· Then L.mai Jlld Caprice cJrne the C.tprice fails to g.1mer her sh.1re of JeciJcJiy into the picture. The season of the trophies next year, it will be nobody·s 1931 s.1w Lmtti :mJ Rippln doing well. fault but my own. Mid-Summer Nordlinger Trophy Race Rill Shepherd sai led his auxiliary sloop Classic Naiad to win the ronlling('J' Clock T roph)' race against a field of eight Southern California's pa1 r of annual other contenders. As released by Race midsummer yachting classirs, the Times Committee Chairman Art Ferry, her and Nordlinger Clock Trophy races. clapseci time for the 50-mile event was were held, respectively, on Ju l) 24 and 8 :08 :-+3 and her corrected time 6: 19 :40. 25 with a good field contending for Following her in second place came the each. The Times eYe nt, which was first Paige-owned Prelude with an elapsed raced for in 1903, was O\'er a 20-mile and corrected time, respecti\·cly, of course, while the :"rordlingcr Clock com 7 :13 :57 and 6:32:15. Commodore Wil petition. begun in 1907. "·as held over liam Bartholomac's eight-meter Yucca a 50-mile course. T he Los Angele:: was credited with the third place, Yacht Club is the trustee of both awards. 7 :13:.55 being her elapsed time and 6 :33 :41 her corrected time. Sixteen of the best crossed the start I n both races the new schedule of ing line in the T imes C\'Cilt and 011 cor propellor allowances, recently adopted rected time Raymond Paige's eight by the Southern California Yachting meter Prelude topped the impressi\·e As:;ociation, was in effect. fleet, her elapsed time being 3 :34:55 and her corrected time 3:32 :37. Bill Slater * sailed his six-meter L anni into second "Na:ad", JJi/1 Shrplurtl's rom:rrtrd "Six'', ''Hispaniola", the 65 -foot schooner pre\·ious wort t/11· Nordlinqrr Trophy hantlil}'. ly owned by R. James of Coronado, has place with an elapsed time of 4 :00 :40 been purchased by Mrs. Dorothy Patterson and a corrected time of 3 :34: 18. Third of Beverly Hill ~. Harry C. \ Vilson com position was taken br Russell Simmons' The entire fleet of fi,-e California pleted the transfer. 11 )•-A y-Ay, another "six", the elapsed 32's were entered in the Times race • • • and corrected times, respectively, being \\'i th the fleet, as a whole, finishing 111 ].