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Re: [Bob Johnstone] OLDEST TROPHY RACES
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Here are some that were emailed to Scuttlebutt:
* From Bill Sills, Past Commodore & Multiple Winner:
The General Philip H. Sheridan Race Regatta Trophy began in 1874 at Geneva Lake Yacht Club. The club later merged with the West End Yacht Club to form the Lake Geneva Yacht Club
Fontana-On-Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Originally raced in Sandbaggers and currently in A scows.
* From Vincent Delany:
We in the Waterwag Club, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland have many trophies which we race for every year since 1887 such as the Jubilee Cup which celebrates Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. The Cup was presented by Thomas Middleton who insisted that it would be a Cup of no value but with a large surface area on which the engrave the names of the prizewinners. Due to the unfortunate interruption of World War 1, no competitors were available for sailing between 1915 and 1918. Our trophies for handicap races were not introduced until the 1930's. A handicap race allows slower boats to start first with faster boats on the race course for a shorter length of time.
* From Ray Cullum, Rear Commodore, Beverly Yacht Club:
The Beverly Yacht Club in Marion, MA offers the Van Rensselaer Memorial Trophy. This trophy has been competed for annually (except for WWI & WWII) beginning in 1896 and is open to all Buzzards Bay yachts. I am sure it has been raced under different formats over the years but it has been raced for a number of years as a pursuit race.
* From Tony Bull:
Organised by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria and covering some 198nm, the Kidder Williams M2L, is in fact the world’s fifth oldest race. The inaugural race of 1907 used the same course as today - Port Phillip Heads to Low Head at the mouth of the Tamar River.
* From Leslie Barkow:
The Inland Lake Yachting Assoc A-Scow fleet has been sailing for the P.A. Valentine Trophy since 1911.
* From Dennis Palmer:
Regarding long running races, the Lipton Cup has been contested every year in Seattle, WA since 1912.
* From Mike Esposito:
Chicago Yacht Club's original Chicago to Mackinac Trophy dates to 1906 and has been awarded every year since 1921 (races were skipped in 1917-1920 due to WW I, but were sailed every year of WW II). I believe the Bayview Yacht Club's Port Huron to Mackinac Race has sailed since 1925, but I don't know the history of their trophy. Milwaukee's South Shore Yacht Club's Queen's Cup trophy was the 2nd place trophy for an 1853 yacht race that pretty much followed the course on which the America won its famous trophy, but it has only been used for their annual Lake Michigan race since 1944.
*From Lee Parks:
US SAILING’s oldest trophies, the Sears Cup for the Chubb U.S. Junior Triplehanded Sailing Championship (1921) and the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy for the U.S. Women’s Sailing Championship (1924), are slightly older but neither were sailed during the WWII years (1942-45).
* From Robert Coulson:
The annual Chowder Race held each fall by Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA, if still going, may well have started before 1925. It was going strong back in the early thirties when I was a young competitor. It was a chase race for all sorts of boats, ending with a cup of hot chowder for the competitors, served at the Club.
- Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt
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