The following posters took 1st place in their respective age categories:


Ages 9 -11 --

Ages 12 – 14 --
The following posters took 1st place in their respective age categories:
Ages 9 -11 --
Ages 12 – 14 --
We worked all summer, mostly recaulking the wooden decks. I myself was a Good Humor man who never sold any ice cream but gave it away while down at the boat every day. Once I took a fall overboard in my regalia which didn’t fare too well in the salt water, particularly the white hat and coin changer. Needless to say, I was fired from this job after the initial two-week accounting period. Instead of being rewarded with commissions, I wound up owing them money.
Finally, the motley crew of four 20-somethings set out from the Babylon Y.C. on their “voyage of a lifetime.” A short time afterward, the first entry was made in the log, “Engine failed in the Fire Island Inlet.” This was the first of many ominous entries that would be made. What could one expect from the old tub with a deck that was still leaking, a compass that was 30 degrees off, and no VHF radio aboard? This of course was all compounded by, I hate to admit, an ocean-inexperienced crew who’d had only bay-sailing races under its belt.
To minimize slippage we had only one leeboard that we had to haul up on a halyard and transfer to the other side of the vessel with every tack. Not exactly an
It took us two months to reach
There are many other stories to tell but let’s fast forward to the grand finale. The “Wooden Shoe” sunk about 100 miles off