Friendship Sloop Days The Friendship Sloop Society's 45th Annual Regatta Rockland, Maine July 26-28, 2005 2005 Yearbook & Guide ROCKLAND-THOMASTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WELCOMES THE FRIENDSHIP SLOOP SOCIETY TO ROCKLAND, MAINE July 26-28 Join the Friendship Sloop Society members for a public supper and free entertainment on Wednesday. The public is also welcome to attend breakfasts and skippers'skippers’ meetings each morning, and visit sloops dockside at the Public Landing. There will be races each day, and a parade of sloops on Wednesday (see nextpage page4 for fora full full schedule). schedule). OTHER SUMMER EVENTS July 4 ThomastonJuly 4th 4 of July Thomastonwww.thomaston4thofjuly.com 4th of July JulyJuly 10-11 9-10 North Atlantic Blues Festival www.northatlanticbluesfestival.com August 3-74-8 Maine Lobster Festival www.mainelobsterfestival.com For more information on the area, contact the Rockland-Thomaston Area Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 508P.O. • Box One 508 Park • Rockland, Drive • Rockland, ME 04841 ME 04841 1-800-562-2529 or 207-596-0376 E-mail: [email protected] • Web •Site: www.therealmaine.com http://www.therealmaine.com 2005 Homecoming and Rendezvous Schedule of Events in Rockland and Friendship Monday July 25 Sloops arrive in Rockland Harbor and tie up at the Public Landing (no charge). Moorings will probably be available on Monday afternoon at $20 per night. Call the Harbormaster, Ed Glaser, or Assistant Harbor Master, Pete Thibodeau, on Channel 9. Tent, chairs and barbecue will be set up. Tuesday July 26 9:00 AM Skippers’ Meeting under the tent 11:30 AM Race starts off the breakwater 4:30 PM Rowboat races - all ages welcome to participate 5:00 PM BYO Barbecue under the tent Wednesday July 27 9:00 AM Skippers’ Meeting under the tent 10:30 AM Parade of Sloops Noon Races starts off the breakwater 4:00 PM Sloops on public display at the dock 6:00 PM Public dinner under the tent followed by informal musical entertainment. Bring your own musical instrument Thursday July 28 9:00 AM Skippers’ Meeting under the tent 11:00 AM Race starts off breakwater 4:00 PM Awards Ceremony 6:00 PM BYO Barbecue under the tent Friday July 29 Day to sail or drive the crew to Friendship Saturday July 30 9:00 AM Memorial Ceremony in the town of Friendship honoring deceased Sloop Society members and builders of Friendship sloops. Located at the Memorial stone (where the flagpole used to be) on Davis Point Loop. Directions on land: Take Harbor Rd south; at the fork bear left on to Davis Point. The Memorial stone is next to Sloop Days Cottage. Note that Friendship Day has a road race starting at 8:00 AM, so be careful of runners. Cover: Resolute, sail # 123, owned by Charles Burnham. Photograph by Bill Finch 1 Friendship Sloop Society Officers 2005 (Also on the web at www.fss.org) Commodore Charlie Burnham 30 Southern Ave., Essex, MA 01929 Vice-Commodore Roger Lee 26 Park Street, Belfast, ME 04915 Secretary Caroline Phillips 72 Molasses Hill Rd., Brookfield, MA 01506 Treasurer Jonathan Leavy 4 Eden Ave., Newton, MA 02165 Newsletter Editor & Webmaster John Wojcik 347 Lincoln St., Norwell, MA 02061 Yearbook Editors Rich & Beth Langton 868 Cross Pt. Rd., Edgecomb, ME 04556 Yearbook Editor Emeritus Roger Duncan P.O. Box 66, East Boothbay, ME 04554 Publicity Chairman Miff Lauriat 47 East Ridge Rd.Southwest Hbr.ME 04679 Membership Chairman Bob Monk Jr. 3 School Hill Lane, N. Reading MA 01864 Scholarship Chairman Bill Zuber 35A Tideview Lane, Friendship, ME 04547 Race Committee Chairman & David Graham 7 Batchelder Rd., Marblehead, MA 01945 Marblehead Regatta Chairman New London Race Chairman Jack Vibber 5 Soljer Dr., Waterford, CT 06385 Southwest Harbor Race Chairman Miff Lauriat 47 East Ridge Rd., Southwest Hbr., ME 04679 Friendship Day Chairpersons Bill & Caroline Zuber 35A Tideview Lane, Friendship, ME 04547 Chandlery Chairpersons Bill & Kathy Whitney 75 Kingsbury St., Needham, MA 02192 Original Sloops Chairman Harold Burnham 141 Main St., Essex, MA 01929 Measurer Dick Salter 151 Bridge St., Manchester, MA 01944 Inspector of Mast Wedges Bill Whitney 75 Kingsbury St., Needham, MA 02192 Cannoneer Pamela Hooydonk P.O. Box 93, Spruce Head, ME Piper Donald Duncan Southport, ME 04576 Commodore, Motor Boat Squadron Jack Cronin 164 Sturbridge Rd., Charlton, MA 01507 Honorary Members: Roger and Mary Duncan, Dorothy Gould, David Graham, Cyrus Hamlin, Marcia Morang, Betty Roberts, Governor John Reed and Carlton Simmons. 2 Commodores Message Welcome to Rockland and the forty-fifth annual Friendship Sloop Homecoming. Come and have a good time. Help celebrate our maritime heritage. For those cruising in Penobscot Bay before the homecoming, the Sunday night rendezvous at Pulpit Harbor is on again. Just show up and join in the fun. After the Rockland races the traditional memorial ceremony followed by Friendship Day festivities will be held in Friendship Harbor. This year will be special for those racing. A return to that handicap alley race format we used in Friendship is promised. The fleet will start and finish together. Expect more fun, more interaction, and a more equal chance for each boat to take a trophy. The Race Committee has been working hard. What keeps our society growing? Why do people keep coming to Rockland? Well, some just love the sight of Friendships. For kids it might be a family thing, but beware of the old adage, “Starvation is good for discipline”. It doesn’t hold for a crew in Rockland. Special thanks go to our Yearbook Editors and Vice Commodore who generously assumed all the work and responsibilities of publisher this year. Finally, we want to thank and acknowledge our appreciation to the City of Rockland, The Rockland Harbor Master and crew, Share the Pride, the Chamber of Commerce, the Maine Lobster Festival, the dedicated volunteers that cater the Wednesday night dinner, and the advertisers that generously make the publishing of this book possible. Please support them. They are listed in the categorized advertising index in the back of this book. Looking forward to seeing you in Rockland. Charles and Maria Burnham 3 2005 Events of the Friendship Sloop Society July 9th & 10th New London Regatta - New London CT Contact: Greg Roth, 510 Montauk Ave., New London, CT 06320 860- 442-2747 July 23rd Southwest Harbor Regatta - Southwest Harbor, ME Contact: Miff Lauriat, 47 East Ridge Rd., Southwest Harbor., ME 04679 207-244-4313 July 25th-29th Homecoming Rendezvous and Regatta Rockland, ME Contact: Charlie Burnham, 30 Southern Ave, Essex, MA 01929 978-768-7146 or Roger Lee, 26 Park Street, Belfast, ME 04915 July 30th Friendship Day - Friendship, ME Contact: Bill Zuber, 35A Tideview Lane, Friendship, ME 04547 207-354-8036 August 13th & 14th Marblehead Regatta - Marblehead, MA Contact: David Graham, 7 Batchelder Rd., Marblehead, MA 01945 781-631-6680 or Charlie Burnham, 30 Southern Ave, Essex, MA 01921 978-768-7146 September 3rd Gloucester Schooner Festival Gloucester, MA Contact: Gloucester Harbormaster November 12th Annual Meeting Best Western Merry Manor Inn 700 Main Street, South Portland, Maine Contact: Caroline Phillips, Secretary - 72 Molasses Hill Rd., Brookfield, MA 01506 508-867-0503 Sloop Society Webpage: www.fss.org 4 Dedication to Jack Vibber We have all met remarkably dynamic individuals who have had a major influence on our lives. Then, too, there are those quietly effective people who have an even more remarkable impact on us due to their gentle good nature and endearing simplicity. Such qualities define one of the Friendship Society’s most loyal and enthusiastic members, here affectionately and simply: Jack. Jack is known by many and his good reputation precedes him all along the eastern coast from Connecticut to Maine. He has been involved with boats practically all his life: working on sailing barges in his early years, model making to this day, restoring or repairing vessels such Friendship Sloops (Tern), Muscongus Sloops, Beetle Cats and other catboats, smacks, and Herreshoff Bullseyes. Jack has been an active and contributing member to many boating associations, notably Mystic Seaport Museum, U.S. Power Squadrons, The Catboat Society, Noank Wooden Boat Association, Thames Yacht Club, and especially the Friendship Sloop Society. How many people know, though, that Jack, at 91, is a brother Elk, an avid dancer with his wife Ginny with whom he still drives around, and had worked for thirty-four years with the electric company without having taken a sick day?? In the mid-eighties, Jack gathered a number of Friendship owners and enthusiasts at his house to plan for a racing event during the New London Sailfest weekend. In fact, Jack brought the sails to Sailfest! What came out of the meeting was the New London FSS Rendezvous. Still active and vibrant, although now with less emphasis on racing, the New London event continues to be a scheduled activity on the Society’s calendar after twenty years. Because of Jack’s efforts to bring us together, many members from New York to Massachusetts to Maine have become good friends and willing ambassadors for the Society. He has touched us all and is a father figure to many of us. It is indeed a privilege to write this year’s dedication to such a deserving person who has inspired us all: Holt “Jack” Vibber. Greg Roth Bancroft Award This year the Bancroft award goes to Jack Vibber. It is made in memory of Winthrop Bancroft, owner of Elicia III and an early and enthusiastic member of our Society. The award might also recognize an unusual voyage, the building of a sloop, a model, a poem a painting - some contribution to the Friendship tradition.