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Just a reminder, the Classic Mariners Regatta is this weekend. Welcome party at 6:30 at the NWMC boat shop. Last minute sign ups for the Regatta accepted. This morning it was announced that the schooner Adventuress will be awarded $125,000 as people all over the world Voted for the Boat. The campaign that Sound Experience and their Board put together was impressive. Not only will the Adventuress benefit from this award but it seems likely that the Port Townsend marine trades [...] Vote For the Boat! In case you didn’t get Kiwi’s email this morning, Vote For the Boat! Only three days left and we’re in a tight race with a building. Three More Voting Days Left!! We can’t do this without your votes so please try and vote every day up to and including [...] Photo from the blog The Wandering Road From a nice note from Elizabeth Becker … Hello, PT Sailors! For those of you who haven’t heard, I’m delighted to announce that Adventuress is one of only twenty-five historic sites in the Puget Sound region vying for a portion of one million dollars in grant [...] From Three Sheets NW, the Ragland is for sale again including some nice photos and a recent history of this former resident of Boat Haven. By Deborah Bach on April 26th, 2010 W.N. Ragland, which is on the market, moored at Foss Waterway Seaport for the first Tacoma Schooner Rendezvous. Photo Marty McComber/Three [...] From Kimball Livingston’s always interesting blog, Blue Planet Times, Published: March 8, 2010 With classic American racing yachts, there’s more than one meaning to the phrase, bring’em back. Any wood boat that’s been out there a while will surely have been “brought back” one time or more through restoration procedures that we can reasonably hope are unreasonably fanatical. There’s also: Bring’em back home.
For a while it seemed that all our classic raceboats were off to the Med. Lately, less so. I knew I had to write about this when I heard that Dorade is going up for sale today, and that’s an opportunity. Is there any other boat that so distills the history of American yacht racing in the 20th century? My answer is, no. And we know it was Edgar Cato who brought her home.  Dorade's Lines And they did. The boat was merely passing through Italy, anyway, outbound from the south of France for the USA, where her new owner would make her a fixture of classics events on the East Coast. Two years later, Joe Dockery purchased Sonny (S&S 1935; 53 feet) and returned that boat from the Med. Dorade and Sonny have been racing bow to bow pretty much ever since. Skylark too came home from the Med. But you have to love the little stories. Such as, why is there an Anna, a newly-built 56-footer with the classic looks of Stormy Weather and a modern underbody? Why, son, it’s because when Sam Rowse tried to buy Dorade, and went to France to seal the deal on his accepted offer, the owner somehow got strange feelings and refused to sell. Rowse then commissioned S&S to design an homage to Stormy Weather, leaving Dorade still out there until Cato pried her loose. 
The following article ran last November in the new Northwest boating site, Three Sheets Northwest, to celebrate Port Townsend’s own schooner Martha’s victory in the recent Round the County race. In case you missed it, here’s the article and some pictures by Sean Trew of Pacific Fog.  Photo by Elizabeth Becker Mark your calendars for the WBF Shipwright’s Regatta, this coming February 20thStart your boating season with this traditional Port Townsend regatta. Lots of fun prizes and wacky awards. Boats of all construction welcome! Skippers Meeting at 9 am at the NW Maritime Center/Wooden Boat Foundation. Race starts at 11:30 on Port Townsend Bay. Awards at the Shanghai Restaurant at 4:30. There will be a Racing, Cruising, and Inshore small boat class. |
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