Colmans Win Chatterbox

Colmans Win Chatterbox

Nenemoosha, Charles and Dianna Colman’s 32-foot replica of a 1920s Ditchburn Canadian launch, won LGYC’s Chatterbox Trophy September 22 for Best in Show at the club’s Annual Wooden Boat Show, now in its fourth year. The Colmans won the Chatterbox Trophy last year in their 36-foot sedan cruiser Nokomis.

Judges for the event are past commodores Jerry Millsap, Jim Smith (in absentia), and John Zils. They also create the award categories.

Nenemoosha, built by Peter Breen Antique & Classic Boat Company Ltd. in Rockwood, Ontario, and completed in 2007, is fitted out with original 1920s Ditchburn hardware, a 1940s spotlight, a chromed external rudder, custom bucket seats, a 1934 Chrysler Straight Eight engine, and a 100-year-old steering wheel, probably from a Ford Model T. The word Nenemoosha means sweetheart and is an endearment used in Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha.

The runner-up title was shared by two recently restored 28-footers: Jean Marie, a 1997 Streblow Cuddy Sport owned by John and Michelle Simms, and Freedom, a 1966 Lyman Sportsman Hardtop (the hardtop is teak) owned by Andy Kubicsko and Robin Randolph. Freedom was the last 28-foot boat built by the Lyman Boat Works Company. The 10-boat fleet this year also included the historic 40-foot displacement-type motor launch Denebola, built by Great Lakes Boat Company of Milwaukee in its Chicago yard in 1929 as Ishkoota for Commodore Henry H. Porter. She was bought and renamed in 1940 by Dr. Will F. Lyon. At the helm this year was Dr. Will’s son Dr. Edward Lyon with his son, Dr. Will’s grandson, Dr. Steven Lyon as crew. Another crowd pleaser was the 30-foot steel-hulled Pink Hour, an import from Lake Tahoe owned by Robin and Peter Mueller. A replica of an Edwardian fantail motor launch, Pink Hour was built in 1980 by Millerick Brothers Boat Works and restored by a previous owner who found her in the woods on a California estate.When he could locate period fittings, he used them. Originally steam powered, she now runs on a three-cylinder 20-horsepower 1943 Easthope gas engine. Stampede X, a 22-foot Star-boat owned and restored by Brian Buzard, was the show’s lone sailboat entry. Her sail number is 3040, and she was built in the early 1950s by Skip Etchells at the Old Greenwich Boat Company in Connecticut.

After the judges reviewed the boats along the pier, participants and guests had lunch on the club’s upper deck, boat owners received their awards, and the fleet cruised from the Yacht Club to Black Point, where Flagship fired her cannon in a salute to the late Dr. Edward S. Petersen, the Yacht Club’s Member Number One for more than two decades

The Chatterbox Trophy, a silver vase now 100 years old, started life at LGYC in 1913 as the High Speed Boat Trophy. It was won that year by Commodore Marquette A. Healy driving Mrs. Healy’s 21-foot motorboat Chatterbox. In 1985, the trophy resurfaced in an Illinois garage sale, was returned by the buyer to the Yacht Club, became the Healy Trophy from 1986 to 1972 for the MC fleet championship, and in 2010 was renamed and reassigned by the Board of Directors for use in the Annual Wooden Boat Show. (For more about Chatterbox Trophy history see the online Virtual Trophy Room entry under Special Awards.)

In September, Commodore Terry Blanchard appointed Bill Bentsen to serve as chairman of an ad hoc  Wooden Boat Show Committee to plan, promote, and organize future events. Committee members are Jerry Millsap, Robin Randolph, and David Williams.

2013 Participants and Awards

Best in Show: Nenemoosha, 32-foot 2007 replica of a 1920s Ditchburn Canadian Launch,  Charles and Dianna Colman

Runners-Up: Jean Marie, 28-foot 1997 Streblow Cuddy Sport, John and Michelle Simms; Freedom, 28-foot 1966 Lyman Sportsman Hardtop, Andy Kubicsko and Robin Randolph

Best Restored Boat: Jean Marie and Freedom

Best Streblow: Jean Marie

Best Party Boat: Miss Molly, 28-foot 1959 Chris-Craft, Robert Chanson

Best First-Year Entry: Sonny, 18-foot 1956 Century Resorter, John Larson

Best Boat Owned by an Olympic Medalist: Ariel, 19-foot 1959 Lyman Runabout, Bill Bentsen

Best Boat with the Most Distinguishing Features: Denebola,  40-foot 1929 Motor Launch, Steven Lyon

Best 24-foot Chris-Craft: Till Havs, 24-foot 1959 Chris-Craft Sportsman, David and Kathy Williams

Best Boat That Should Be Wooden: Pink Hour, 30-foot 1980 steel replica of an Edwardian Fantail Motor Launch, Robin and Peter Mueller

Best Wooden Interior: Pink Hour

Try and Try Again Award: Till Havs

Best Restored Lapstrake Boat: Ariel

Best Wooden Sailboat: Stampede X, 22-foot 1950s International Star, Brian Buzard

 

 

 

2013 Old Guard Race

2013 Old Guard Race

Attention all Old Guard Members:

The LGYC 2013 Old Guard Race has been rescheduled for Saturday September 28.  Earlier in the summer we had a lack of wind and had to cancel the race for the day.  The races will be run on the GLSS Sonars.  Please call the office (262-275-2727) or reply by email ([email protected]) if you will be around for this event.    We will be serving lunch on the upper deck.

2013 Wooden Boat Show

2013 Wooden Boat Show

Hello LGYC Members

This Sunday, September 22 2013, LGYC is holding their annual Wooden Boat Show.  There was great attendence last year and we’re planning on another succesful event this year.  If you plan on entering your boat in the Wooden Boat show at the Abbey at the end of the month, this is a great opportunity to clean up the wood, polish the brass and test out your horns.

We will be serving lunch off the menu, offering a bloody mary bar.  After lunch there will be a parade of boats starting at 2 pm.

Click Here to view full event details.

View some photos of last years event.

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Are YOU Ready for the E-Nationals? Our Members Sure Are

Are YOU Ready for the E-Nationals? Our Members Sure Are

With September 5th just around the corner, it’s no wonder why so many sailors are getting excited for the annual E-Nationals competition that will be held at the LGYC. While hosting the E-Scow Spring Regatta, we asked sailors from around the country what they liked most about our club and Geneva Lake, as well as whether they were ready to take on a fully-loaded 65-boat fleet this year in the E-Nationals. Our Commodore, John D. Simms, Jr., also was enthused to say that he will be at the competition! Take a look at what we heard!

 

 

See you on September 5th!

Sheridan Prize Trustees Issue Statement

Sheridan PrizeCommodore John D. Simms Jr., John R. Anderson, and Charles R. Lamphere, the trustees for the Sheridan Prize, issued the following statement in March and have posted it on the Official Notice Board at the Yacht Club:

“The Sheridan Prize shall be sailed for annually on the last Saturday in August, unless otherwise re-scheduled or re-sailed at the discretion of the trustees. The race shall be sailed in One Design Class A Scows, as defined by the National Class A Scow Association. It is open only to yachts whose owners and skippers are members in good standing of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club and are eligible to race under its Bylaws. The race will start at the Yacht Club with the fleet sailing a windward course, if possible, to either Fontana or Lake Geneva, then to a mark at the other end of the lake, and then back to the Yacht Club to finish. The time limit for the first yacht to finish is six hours. A single boat starting and completing the race within the time limit constitutes an official race.”

Over the years, in the interest of ensuring a good contest and respecting tradition, the trustees have introduced amendments to the Trust Agreement and revised and clarified various aspects of the regulations governing the race, such as the course, the time limit, and the competitors. The 2013 statement from the trustees reiterates earlier decisions and defines the class of boat as one that complies with the class, sail measurement, and hull measurement rules of the National Class A Scow Association, as must all ILYA-sanctioned Class A Scows. As to competitors, the 2013 statement from the trustees includes both owner and skipper – past regulations only mention owners – and aligns its language about their eligibility with current LGYC Bylaws.

The Sheridan Prize race, held with few exceptions every year since 1874, is unusual in that trustees govern the event and its trophy and, as stated in the 1895 yearbook, “control all questions relating to the prize.”  The first trustees were George L. Dunlap, General Superintendent of the Chicago & North Western Railway, and Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, first commodore of the Yacht Club and a prominent Chicago industrialist. (For more on the history of the Sheridan Prize and its winners, visit the Virtual Trophy Room on the Yacht Club’s web site.)