Page 6 July 26, 2012 All Points Information Race Days A celebration of sailboat racing Penobscot Bay sets the scene for annual races

With the waterways of Penobscot Bay as The following day, on Friday, August 3, their course, the annual sailboat races begin the 25th annual Camden Classic Yacht on Thursday, August 2 with The Castine Race sets a course from “the top of North Classic Yacht Race, now in its 13th year. Haven” and through the Deer Isle Hosted by the Castine Yacht Club, this 20- Thoroughfare, and finishes in Brooklin. The nautical-mile race of Classic and Spirit of event, a “feeder” race into the 26th annual Tradition yachts sails out of the Castine Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, is hosted by the harbor bell at 11:45 a.m. and finishes in Camden Yacht Club and the Eggemoggin Camden. Each yacht must be at least 28’ Reach Regatta. Again, all yachts must tow a bow-to-stern, with a proper dinghy in tow. dinghy. In 2011, light wind conditions caused a On Saturday, August 4, the Eggemoggin delayed start for the fleet of 42 yachts and Reach Regatta races 16 nautical miles down the course was shortened, with the Classic B the Reach, from Torrey Island out to Halibut and Herreshoff classes setting at Mouse Rocks off Marshall Island. There, sailors Island, and Spirit and Classic A classes at tack their vessels in a hairpin turn round the Macintosh Ledge at the southern tip of jagged ledges and head back on a somewhat Isleboro. parallel course to finish by Naskeag Point. In the end, the Isobel, a newly launched The event is co-sponsored by Brooklin Stephens, Waring and White 75’ sloop, led Boatyard and Rockport Marine. Vela, foreground, and Katrina, in background, in 2011’s Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. by Richard Schotte, scored a first-place Last year, the 2011 regatta drew 103 sail- Photo by Karin Sanborn victory in the Spirit of Tradition class and boats in eight classes of 26’ and over wooden had the fastest time overall at 3:15:08. The sailboats. Like the Castine Classic, light Siren, a 1932 45’ Sparkman and Stephens- wind hampered the start of the race, but designed sloop edged out a win in the Classic Brooklin Boatyard owner Steve White called A class, with Peter Cassidy as skipper. In the the race “very successful” in spite of its slow Classic B class, the Marie J, a 34’ Jayne- start, with many new entrants in the race. designed sloop sailed by Eric Urbahn, placed The Cindy Lou, a 1966 John Johnson- first. In the Herreshoff class—a special designed scow, skippered by John Eide in designation celebrating that classic design— the Spirit of Tradition B class sailed the was won by the Spartan, a 1912 72’ gaff- fastest race, coming in at a corrected time of rigged sloop, sailed by Charles Ryan. 2:11:29.

“Most photogenic boat” to be presented by NOAH Publications

On Saturday, August 4, WoodenBoat Last year, the Spartan, a N.G, Herreshoff- Publications will present its sixth annual designed and built New York 50 class sloop Calendar of Wooden Boats Most Photogenic was singled out for the award. Past winners Award at the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, include 2010’s the Ticonderoga, designed by under the big tent. L. Francis Herreshoff, 2009’s Malabar II, Marine photographer Benjamin designed by John Alden; 2008’s three Mendlowitz and marine historian Maynard Buzzards Bay 30 sloops, originally designed Bray will select the winning boat as an ideal by N.G. Herreshoff; and 2007’s Vela, example of the aesthetics, design, fine crafts- designed by Havilah Hawkins. manship and commitment to maintenance The winner will be announced at the that are the hallmarks of an exceptional awards dinner following the race on wooden boat, according to a press release. Saturday, August 4, and receive an 11” x 14” Mendlowitz is the owner of NOAH Benjamin Mendlowitz photographic print of Publications, which publishes the annual the boat, and a special slip-cased, numbered The 2011 most photogenic boat winner Spartan, designed and built in 1912 by calendar; Bray has provided the text for the and signed edition of the Book of Wooden Nathanael Herreshoff. Photo courtesy of Kathy Mansfield calendar since its start in 1983. Boats, Volume II.

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The Belle Aventure, a 94’ ketch built in 1929, will rendezvous with other Fife yachts in Castine on August 1. Photo by Ben Mendlowitz