AYC Annapolis to Newport Race

Annapolis to Newport Race History
1947 - 2007

1947 | 1949 | 1951 | 1953 | 1955 | 1957 | 1959 | 1961 |
1963 | 1965 | 1967 | 1969 | 1971 | 1973 | 1975 | 1977 |
1979 | 1981 | 1983 | 1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 |
| 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 |

Introduction
2007 was the 30^th running of the 475 mile biennial Annapolis-Newport Race. However, the race has existed in various forms back to 1871, 1875 and 1879 when it went from Sandy Hook to Cape May with two to five entries each race. After a big time gap, it was raced again in 1927-33 and 1939 from New London, CT to Gibson Island, MD. In 1941, the race was from New London to Hampton, VA, and during the same year, a Newport-Annapolis race was promoted, but World War II intervened. The Annapolis-Newport race was officially established in 1947 to be on a continuing basis in alternate years with the Newport-Bermuda Race. Attached is a 1947 Baltimore Sun article on the race. Until the mid-50s, it was the Newport-Annapolis race, but after much complaining by the competitors about slow trips up the Chesapeake after a long ocean race, the course was reversed in 1957.

The record time for the race is held by Carrera, Joseph Dockery's Farr 60 skippered by Chris Larson, which set a new course record in 2001 of 42 hours, 58 minutes, 12 seconds. This broke the previous record set by Chessie Racing, George Collins' Santa Cruz 70, in 1999 at 47 hours and 45 minutes, which in turn had beaten a 12 year old record (53 hours and 31 minutes) of Starlight Express, a ULDB 70.

The Annapolis-Newport Race was run under the Cruising Club of America rating rule from 1947 to 1969. From 1971 until 1989 the International Offshore Rule (IOR) was adopted. In 1979 the Measurement Handicap System (MHS) was introduced and used along with the IOR, and this rule is still in use today as the International Measurement System (IMS). The PHRF rule was added in 1983, not used in 1985, established again in 1987, and continues to the present. These handicap systems have each provided corrected time winners in the more recent editions of the race.

Some statistics:
Largest fleet: 1965 - 93 boats
Smallest fleet: 1955 - 27 boats
Fastest Race: 2001 - Carrera, Joseph Dockery's Farr 60 skippered by Chris Larson, 42 hours, 58 minutes, 12 seconds
Slowest race: 1955 - Niña, 59' staysail schooner, 92 hours, 20 minutes
Most frequent competitor: 20 races for E. Newbold Smith, starting in 1957 with Gailliard and continuing with his various Reindeers. Overall winner in 1961, first in class in 1961, 1963, 1995, second in class four times (1967, 1981, 1987, 1993), third in class three times (1989, 1999, 2001) and fourth in class twice (1965 and 1997).
Roughest year: 1967 - 34 of 91 starters withdrew, six being dismasted.

1947 Newport-Annapolis Race (36 entries)
Light winds and smooth water prevailed during this inaugural race with the entries described "as fine a fleet of ocean racing yachts as could be gathered together". Most of the 36 boats in the fleet never had their deck wet during the race. The fleet had a light spinnaker run on the ocean and then a beat to the Chesapeake Light. Foul tides, once at the mouth of the Bay, kept the leading boats from making way over the ground for several hours. making it impossible for the small boats to not loose their time allowances.

Alar Charles Dell, a future Commodore of AYC, had seen another entrant, Theodore Grosvenor’s Ballymena, drifting with her mizzen over the side and the rest of her rig in a mess, the result of an entanglement with fish traps along the Virginia coast. Dell stood by for 12 hours until Ballymena got under way with a jury rig. Gaetina II was not awarded any compensatory time for this act - but did receive a magnum of champagne. The three other boats that did not finish suffered from sick crew and discouragement due to the light wind.

Taking part in the race were Gesture, the winner of the 1946 Bermuda race, Alar (overall winner), a NY 32, winner of the Block Island and New York to Nantucket races, Burma (formerly Tioga Too), winner of the Marblehead-Halifax Race in 1939, and Ticonderoga, a 71’ yawl, scratch boat of the fleet. The first to finish was Baruna, in 88 hours and 14 minutes.

Class A
1. Burma - Frank S. Bissell
2. Gesture - A. Howard Fuller
3. Niña - DeCoursey Fales
4. Baruna - Henry C. Taylor
5. Hostess II - Kenneth J. Stanford
6. Highland Light - USNA
7. Ticonderoga - Allan P. Carlisle
8. Vamarie - USNA
9. Memory - Walter H. Bowes

Class B
1. Alar - David Z. Bailey
2. Revonoc - Harvey Conover
3. Suluan - Harold T. White, Jr.
4. White Mist - G. W. Blunt White
5. Tomahawk - Paul W. Hyatt
6. Dryad - Leonard Young
7. Alcyone - Ralph E. Case
8. Carina - Richard Nye
9. Lord Jim - James J. O’Neill
10. Resolute - USNA
11. Lucky Star - Richard O. H. Hill
12. Chee Chee IV - Philip Handelman
13. Malabar XIII - Morgan Butler
14. Steel Sylph - Arther B. Tickle Jr.
15. Voyager - Edward C. Waldogel
16. Flirt - Mrs. L. O. Bonnar
17. Alert - USNA
18. Starlight - James B. Brickell
19. Pussy Willow - Edward T. Rice
20. Alsumar - Frank P. Greenman
21. Elda - Paul Patterson
22. Estrella - Frank P. Fifer
23. Gaetina II - Charles S. Dell
DNF Ballymena - Theodore Grosvenor
DNF Katinka - Adm. W. L. Ainsworth
DNF Homaro - A. Freeman Gray
DNF Gaffer - Millard F. Smith

A Note on the 1947 Newport-Annapolis Race
and the Wishbone Ketch Vamarie
by
Capt. Richards T. Miller, USN [Ret]

Vamarie was designed by the New York firm of naval architects, Cox & Stevens and built by Abeking & Rassmussen of Bremen, Germany in 1933 for Vadim Makaroff. She had an overall length of 72 feet, a waterline length of 54 feet, a beam of 15 feet - 3 inches, a draft of 10 feet - 4 inches and displaced 46 tons. Her 2,300 square feet of sail area was arranged in a unique wishbone or staysail ketch plan. She crossed the finish line first in her first nine ocean races, including the 1936 Bermuda Race (of which she won four) and placed second in the 1935 Trans- Atlantic Race from Newport to Bergen, Norway on corrected time. Her owner offered her to the Naval Academy in October 1936 and she was formally presented at a dress parade on 1 November 1936.

vamarie.gif (52052 bytes) In 1947, I was a crew member aboard Vamarie in the Newport to Annapolis race and Lt. Cdr. A. E. Troonin, USNR, was the skipper. He had been the Makaroff's professional captain before they donated Vamarie to the Naval Academy. Since Vamarie had no auxiliary engine we departed Annapolis under tow by the destroyer Power which was to take us through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and down Delaware Bay to the Atlantic. The Delaware Bay demonstrated its bad environment with a brisk southerly wind working against an ebb tide to produce a nasty chop. Power charged off at some 10 knots or more, giving us a hard time at the end of the tow line; so, in the late evening we signaled to have the tow dropped and spent the rest of the night beating out of the Bay under sail.

The following day gave us beautiful June weather with a brisk wind out of the north-west, a brilliant blue sky accented with puffy white fair weather clouds and pleasant temperature. As we sailed up the Jersey coast on a broad reach we listened to a radio in the cockpit tuned to an Atlantic City station playing the great dance times of the period. All sails were set and drawing well with perhaps a shake here and a shimmy there. Alex Troonin looked around, and in his pronounced Russian accent said, "Fell poys, dis is yachting! Coming back we vork!"; and so we did, he harder than any of us as he constantly checked the sails and adjusted their setting to keep Vam moving to best advantage.

We arrived in Newport the following day where we had a couple of days before the Race started off Brenton Reef Lightship on another beautiful June mid-day. Contrary to weather patterns experienced in subsequent races we had light and variable air down the Atlantic coast so that the race seemed to start anew during the late afternoon of the third day when the leaders congregated off the Chesapeake Lightship and we waited for a strong southerly wind that came in from thunder squalls over Virginia. The fleet took off under spinnakers which we carried until midnight. Then as the wind hauled more to the west we took in our spinnaker and set a genoa jib. Vam continued at hull speed, close to 10 knots, through the early morning hours. We sailed into Annapolis around 0700 the forth day out of Newport, finishing eighth in Class A on corrected time. It had been a great experience, with a memorable sail that last night.

On 15 October 1954, when Hurricane Hazel roared over Annapolis, a worn link in Vamarie's mooring chain parted, and she ended up a total wreck on the Naval Academy seawall.

1949 Newport-Annapolis Race (40 entries)
The 1947 winners, competing in a fleet of 40 boats, successfully defended their several trophies. Alar, a NY 32, again won in both Class B and fleet. Frank Bissell’s yawl Burma, again took first place in Class A, and Henry Taylor’s yawl Baruna once more was first to finish.

Burma For most of the fleet this was a slow race. The first-to-finish time was 87 hours and 23 of the 40 boat fleet took more that four days to sail the 366 miles. The race was run during a period of breathless heat and light variable air. For the first two days it was difficult even to develop steerageway. The calm continued for the trip up the Bay.

Class A
1. Burma - Frank S. Bissell
2. Argyll - William T. Moore
3. Gesture - A. Howard Fuller
4. Nina - DeCousey Fales
5. Baruna - Henry C. Taylor
6. Highland Light - USNA
7. Djinn - Henry S. Morgan
8. Bounding Home - William Ziegler Jr.
9. Doris III - Harold M. Lane
10. Caribbee - Carleton Mitchell
11. Thais - R. E. Jr. and Warren Ladue
12. Belisarius - C. B. Rockwell

Class B
1. Alar - David Z. Bailey
2. Egret - C. Porter Schutt
3. Katuna - Gilbert Verney
4. Spookie - William Ziegler III
5. Hother - Jakob Isbrandtsen
6. Carina - Richard B. Nye
7. Infanta - Houlder Hudgins
8. Elda - D. H. Patterson
9. Merry Maiden - H. Irving Pratt
10. Malabar XIII - Morgan Butler
11. Golden Hind - Dr. G. A. Clowes
12. Crow’s Nest - Henry E. Crowe

Class C
1. Lively- USNA
2. Resolute - USNA
3. Tar Baby - T. J. Watson Jr.
4. Fandango - Norman Owens
5. Vixen - W. M. Butler
6. Loki - Gifford B. Pinchot
7. Teal - Sylvester T. Smith Jr.
8. Norderney - USNA
9. Nimrod IV - Robert L. Hall
10. Narwhal - C. A, Kuehnle Jr.
11. Voyager - E. C. Waldvogel
12. Karin - Jacob P. Crane
13. Gaetina - Charles S. Dell
14. Pussy Willow - Edward T. Rice
15. Abenaki - John G. Alden
16. Marjoly - W. Lyle Holmes Jr.

1951 Newport-Annapolis Race (32 entries)
Bolero and Baruna In the predawn moonlight of June 21^st the sails of two big yawls, almost side by side, loomed up off Tolley Point. Slowly they fanned across the finish line, with only their big spinnakers pulling them along as the heavy working sails hung limp in the faint southeasterly air. Flares and flash bulb lit up the scene as the race committee, aboard the Naval Academy schooner Freedom, timed Bolero at 4:01:07 am and Baruna just 24 seconds later."

"With a time allowance of some 15 minutes, Henry C. Taylor’s Baruna was the winner of the 466 mile, two boat duel with John Nicholas Brown’s Bolero which was the highlight of an otherwise slow and featureless race. "

This was Yachting Magazine’s opening coverage of the results of the 3^rd running of the Newport to Annapolis race. It was another six hours before the third boat (Highland Light) finished and yet another 24 hours before the winner of Class B, Egret, arrived. The fleet had struggled with light and fluky conditions in the ocean. Highland Light’s log showed that the spinnaker was set for 76 hours out of the 92 hours it took to complete the race. In the Chesapeake conditions were still light and compounded by foul currents. Many boats were becalmed and had to anchor.

Baruna and Bolero had been in sight of each other the whole race and rounded the Chesapeake Lightship together with the next 160 miles one long luffing match. Aboard Highland Light was Comdr. Arthur Shuman, who helped Frank Paine design the boat 20 years previously, and who had sailed aboard her when she set the Bermuda course record in 1932 which was still standing in 1951.

Class A
1. Baruna - Henry C. Taylor
2. Bolero - John N. Brown
3. Highland Light - USNA
4. Caribbee - Carleton Mitchell
5. Doris - Harold M. Lane
6. Gesture - Howard Fuller
7. Djinn - Henry S. Morgan
8. Argyll - William T. Moore
9. Nina - DeCoursey Fales
10. Nirvana - Harry G. Haskell Jr.
11. Royono - USNA
12. Vamarie - USNA
13. Bounding Home - W. Ziegler Jr
14. Nimrod V - Robert L. Hall
15. Valhalla - Cummins Catherwood
16. Teragram - USCGA
17. Zeearend - Bertram Lippincott

Class B
1. Egret - C. Porter Schutt
2. White Mist - G. W. Blunt White
3. Dirigo - John B. McAleer
4. Hother - Jakob Isbrandtsen
5. Starlight - James B. Brickel
DNF Carina - Richard S. Nye
DNF Tomahawk - Paul Hyatt

Class C
1. Swift - USNA
2. Teal - Sylvester Smith Jr.
3. Active - USNA
4. Alert - USNA
5. Fearless - USNA
6. Julie - Paul Campbell
7. Lady Babbie II - R. M. Gillespie
8. Libra - Brayton Marvell

1953 Newport-Annapolis Race (30 entries)
Bolero, Commodore John Nicholas Brown’s black Sparkman and Stephens 73’ yawl, scratch boat in the fleet of 30 boats, was first to finish (87½ hours), first in class, and first in fleet on corrected time. Class B was won by William T. Moore’s 57’ S&S designed yawl, Argyll, beating Carleton Mitchell’s Caribbee by nearly 3 hours. Zaisa, an Arthur Robb designed sloop from Britain, won Class C, with C. Albert Kuehnle’s Vixen three hours behind her on corrected time. Fun (ex-Manatuck), owned by Tom Closs, rated at the top of Class C and finished there, but dropped to sixth on corrected time.

This was a slow race, on the wind down the coast, with periods of calm around Chesapeake Light. The Chesapeake brought a 35 knot northeaster and a line squall near Fenwick Island Shoal which caused a sprung mast on Doris III and made her withdraw from the race.

Class A
1. Bolero - John Nicholas Brown
2. Doris - Harold M. Lane
3. Nina - DeCoursey Fales
4. Cotton Blossom IV - Walter H. Wheeler Jr.
5. Windigo - Walter S. Gubelmann
6. Sea Lion - Gilbert Verney
7. Vamarie - USNA
8. Gulf Stream - Monroe Hemmerdinger
9. Royono - USNA
DNF Doris III - Baxter R. Still, Jr.

Class B
1. Argyll - William T. Moore
2. Caribbee - Carleton Mitchell
3. Palawan - Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
4. Egret - C. Porter Schutt
5. Starlight - James B. Brickell
6 Courageous - J.G. Herbert-Bryant
7. Tempo - Robert Rulon-Miller
8. Arion - USCGA
9. Barlovento - Pierre S. DuPont III
DNF Sagola - George Hinman

Class C
1. Zaida - G. Colin Ratsey
2. Vixen - C. Albert Kuehnle
3. Bear - William T. Jarvis
4. Figaro - William T. Snaith
5. Teal - Sylvester G. Smith, Jr.
6. Fun - Thomas H. Closs
7. Swift - USNA
8. Fearless - USNA
9. Lynx - Henry A. Wise, Jr.

1955 Newport (New London)-Annapolis Race (27 entries)
Nina "Chaos at Cerberus, embarrassment at Annapolis, and slow sailing in between." This was the capsule description of the 1955 race from Yachting Magazine which was "from a suburb of Block Island to Crabtown-on-the Chesapeake". It seems that a certain bitterness survived after the race due to it being the "slowest of the slow, with the first boat’s (Niña, a 59’ staysail schooner owned by DeCoursey Fales), elapsed time being 92 hours and 20 minutes. The average speed was 4.8 knots. The overall winner in the 27 boat fleet was Actaea, a 40’ sloop in Class C owned by the Commodore of NYYC.

The start was shifted from Newport to the Ceberus Shoal buoy, midway between New London and Block Island. The current runs swiftly there, and, with no wind at the starting line, the fleet started stern foremost or marooned on the off side of the committee boat. The last boat crossed the starting line 2 hours after the gun.

In Annapolis, there was great controversy over a missed mark in the Chesapeake which threatened international relations as the protested boat was Criollo from Cuba. The protest was thrown out and international unity was restored.

Class A
1. Niña - DeCoursey Fales
2. Criollo - Dr. L. H. Vidana
3. Gesture - A. H. Fuller
4. Highland Light - USNA
5. Barlovento - P. S. DuPont
6. Teragram - USCGA
7. Royono - USNA

Class C
1. Actaea - Henry Sears
2. Prim - M. Gibson-Neff, Jr.
3. Corinthia III - G. C. Thompson
4. Finn MacCumhaill - Bobby Coulson
5. Blixtar - Danforth Miller, Jr.
6. Bear - William T. Jarvis
7. Tequila - M.W. Keeler

Class B
1. Palawan - T.J. Watson, Jr.
2. Chance - James Rider
3. Revery - Luke Lockwood
4. Swift - USNA
5. Resolute - USNA
6. Renova - C. M. Dodson
7. Elda - H. A. Wise, Jr.
8. Vigilant - USNA
9. Water Witch - John Rodstrom
10. Celerity - R. M. Brown, Jr
DNF Princess of Fermanagh V. - DeP. Maguire
DNF Royono VII - USCGA
DNF Frolic - USNA

1957 Annapolis - Newport Race (48 entries)
This was a fast race and was seen as giving a new lease on life to a race that had gone too slowly in the opposite direction (Newport to Annapolis). The race had been regarded as headed for oblivion due to dwindling fleets over the decade from 1947 - 1957.

Caper The race started with a beat down the Bay in 20 - 30 knots, when several yachts dropped out with rigging problems, and one lost her mainmast after rounding the Lightship. It lightened up in the lower Bay, and after the Lightship the race was a "glorious slide" downwind for 336 miles. Most boats carried spinnakers the whole ocean leg, and knotmeters registered 12 knots while surfing. Petrel was out in front most of the way, but her spinnaker halyard block disintegrated and the crew had to struggle for a hour and a half with a spinnaker under the boat. This let the 71’ yawl, Cotton Blossom IV, by, who took line honors with an elapsed time of 65 hr., 23 min. which well outdid the previous record of 86 hours.

Caper, a new Rhodes designed 56’ sloop sailing her first race, won Class A. She was a narrow, light, deep keelboat, seen as a complete reversal to the trend at the time which was for beamy centerboard yawls for ocean racing. Harrier, a Concordia 41sloop, sailed by designer C. Raymond Hunt, was fleet and Class C winner of the 48 starters.

Class A 1. Caper - H. I. Pratt 2. Cotton Blossom IV - W. H. Wheeler Jr. 3. Windigo - W. S. Gubelmann 4. Highland Light - USNA 5. Nina - DeCoursey Fales 6. Gesture - A. H. Fuller 7. Petrel - USGCA 8. Currituck - O. B. Reid 9. Auk III - C. F. Adams 10. Royono - USNA 11. Caribbee - Seabury Stanton 12. Gulf Stream - M. E. Hemmerdinger 13. Fortune - M. J. Feiring DNF Djinn - H. S. Morgan DNF Proton - Charles Price	Class B 1. Altair - Bradford Smith Jr. 2. Alert - USNA 3. Frolic - USNA 4. Seaflower - S. M. Castle 5. Flirt - USNA 6. Claire - F. E. Lintilhac 7. Vigilant - USNA 8. Shady Lady - C. T. Sturgess 9. Renova - C. D. Dodson 10. Fearless - USNA 11. The Panic - William F. Buckley Jr. 12. Resolute - USNA 13. Chance - H. A. Wise Jr. 14. Starlight - J. B. Brickel DNF Chee Chee IV - P. Handelmann DNF Worry - H. Darlington

Class C 1. Harrier - C. R. Hunt 2. Bonne Amie - G. R. Hinman 3. Finisterre - Carleton Mitchell 4. Hirondelle - H. M. Chance II 5. Golliwog - C. E. Ratsey 6. Finn MacCumhaill - Bobby Coulson 7. Corinthia III - George Thompson 8. Gailliard - E. Newbold Smith	9. Vixen - H. A. Diesinger 10. Dutch Treat - A. R. Moyer Jr. 11. Sea Bound - F. C. Norman 12. Corroboree - A. J. Peaslee 13. Mehitabel - Truman Dodso DNF Actaea - H. Sears DNF Sea Star Two - Karl Schoettle DNF Gallivant - O. E. Olse DNF Mistral - R. W. Baron

1959 Annapolis - Newport Race (71 entries)
Caper, 56’ Rhodes designed sloop owned by H. Irving Pratt, was the winner in the fleet of 71 boats. Caper took the race by 1½ hours corrected time over Nimrod V, chartered by Art Schuman and Ed Disharoon. Nimrod V (once known as Blitzen) was a old Sparkman and Stevens sloop ocean racer that had been knocking off ocean racing prizes from Bermuda to Honolulu for 20 years. Another participant, Carina, a Rhodes keel-centerboard yawl, had won two trans-Atlantics and two Fastnets in a four year career.

The race, which included all types of weather with the exception of a gale, started with a spinnaker run down the Bay, then the wind changed for a beat to the Lightship, and once again it was spinnakers up the coast. All boats went through a front off NY and were becalmed at some point. Line honors time of 73 hrs. 45 min. was provided by Walter Gubelmann’s yawl Windigo.

The race was seen as riding a wave of increasing popularity since the direction had been reversed two years previously.

Class A
1. Caper - H. Irving Pratt
2. Nimrod V - Shuman and Disharoon
3. Carina - R. S. Nye
4. Windigo - W. S. Gubelmann
5. Nina - DeCoursey Fales
6. Highland Light - USNA
7. Royono - USNA
8. Ice Fire - USMMA
9. Palawan - T. J. Watson Jr.
10. Starlight - J. B. Brickell
11. Shady Lady - C. T. Sturgess
12. Fun - T. H. Closs
13. Rob Roy - A. A. Boorstein
14. Sirius - H. C. Boschen
15. Legend - Wells Morss
16. Seaflower - Steven Castle
17. Sonora - C. W. Pingree
18. Ondine - S. A. Long
19. Blue Magic - A. B. Diss
20. Marluva - H. A. Wise
21. Golden Hind - John Kenedy
22. Proton - C. C. Price
23. Caribbee - Seabury Stanton
24. Manitou - USCGA
25. Fortune - M. J. Feirin

Class B
1. Sitzmark IV - Walter Neumann
2. Tioga - Bradley P. Noyes
3. Finn MacCumhaill - Bobby Coulson
4. Alaris - Charles Iliff
5. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff Jr.
6. Criterion - H. H. Villar
7. Grey Goose - R. E Director
8. Pipe Dream - W. T. Colquitt
9. Tia Maria - H. B. Clark
10. Golliwogg - Colin E. Ratsey
11. Ill Wind - C. E. Ill
12. Bonne Amie - C. E. Ernst
13. Delight - Britton brothers
14. Harrier - J. M. Bontecou
15. Esquisse - A. E. Poor
16. Racuna - P. W. Grimm
17. Baroda - W. S. Caldara
18. Gallivant - C. L. Poor
19. Caprice - Fred Hibberd
20. Scylla - Charles Ulmer
21. Windigo - Raymond Fontaine
22. Venturess - A. S. Cochran
23. Sheldrake - Stuyvesant Wainwright
DNF Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith

1961 Annapolis - Newport Race (86 entries)
Small boats cleaned up in this fair weather running of the race. Topping the fleet of 86 boats was Reindeer, Newbold Smith’s Block Island 40 sloop, which took overall and Class D wins after a neck and neck race with Morton Gibbons-Neff’s Owens 40 Prim , which finished second in Class IV. De Coursey Fales Niña, a 33 yr. old 59’ schooner, was first to finish in 82 hr., 40 min by carrying a monstrous maintopmast staysail in the last twenty miles of failing breeze in the slowest race sailed since the course was reversed in 1957. (The current record of the time was 65 hrs., 23 minutes by Cotton Blossom IV in 1957.) The race down the Chesapeake was "light airs and baffling", with the mid-Chesapeake to the lightship bringing the only windward work of the race. No one put on foul weather gear or got their feet wet all the way to Newport. There was a spectator fleet of between 300 - 400 boats out to watch the start off Annapolis.

Class A 1. Dyna - Clayton Ewing 2. Nina - DeCoursey Fales 3. Djinn - Henry S. Morgan, Jr. 4. Jubilee - Francis Wetherill 5. Proton - Chas. Price 6. Caper - H. Irving Pratt 7. Royono - USNA 8. Cotton Blossom IV - W. H. Wheeler Jr. 9. Gray Lady - Judson B. Schafer 10. Petrel - USGCA 11. Caribbee - Seabury Stanton 12. Meridian - B.D.Barker III 13. Windigo - Walter Gublemann 14. Manitou - USCGA 15. Highland Light - USNA 16. Skookum III - Burton Raymon	Class B 1. Seaflower - Steven M. Castle 2. Ma’m’selle - C. E. Hartman II 3. Solution - Thor Ramsing 4. Gaylark - C. W. Ufford 5. Madrigal - A. B. Boardman 6. Spookie - Wm. Ziegler III 7. Icefire - USMMA 8. Tigress - James Rider 9. Marluva - Henry A. Wise, Jr. 10. Shady Lady - Chas. T. Sturgess 11. Carina - Richard S. Nye 12. Diogenes - Avard E. Fuller 13. Royono VII - USCGA 14. The Panic - Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. 15. Sanban - Geo. F. Johnson 16. Palawan - Thomas J. Watson, Jr. 17. Gesture - James L. Madden 18. Java - Alfred R. Meyer, Jr. 19. Annie D - USNA 20. Gypsy - USNA 21. Nomad - George A. Butle

Class C 1. Grey Goose - Robert E. Derecktor 2. Wainscott Wind - S. Wainwright III 3. Simba - Ralph Greenlee 4. Sagola - George R. Hibman 5. Blixtar - Danforth Miller, Jr. 6. Windquest - A. Juston Wasley 7. Wunderbar - George Hoffman 8. Harrier - J. M. Bontecou 9. Cricket - John Spears, Jr. 10. Kahili - H. S. Huidekoper 11. Tomadrus - Thomas L. Miller 12. Arabella - Frank D. Winder 13. Sitzmark IV - Walter Neumann 14. Alert - USNA 15. Hirondelle - Henry Chance 16. Intrepid - USNA 17. Swift - USNA 18. Rhythm - T. N. Jeffress 19. Little Bit - Paul Fleischmann 20. Vigilant - USNA 21. Tamwock IV - A. B. Diss 22. Avian - A. C. Humphrey DNF - Radette II Auxiliary Schooner Class 1. Freedom - USNA 2. Felucca - Henry Whitney	Class D 1. Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith 2. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff, Jr. 3. Yankee Belle - Weems E. Estelle 4. Huntress - Morton H. Engel 5. Ill Wind - Charles L. Ill 6. Rita Mia - M. A Rosenheim 7. Quandary - H. F. Hallock 8. Swamp Yankee - W. VanA. Clark 9. Xanadu - E. B. McKee 10. Cricket - James B. Briggs 11. Ca Va - George W. Anderson 12. Firefly - N. H. Rieser, Jr. 13. Esquisse - A. E. Poor 14. Carina III - Charles B. Crockett 15. Scylla - Charles Ulmer 16. Vixen - A. J. Diesinger, Jr. 17. Ibo-Le’Le - A. F. Sanford II 18. Nereid - R. C. LaCroix 19. Seachief II - R. P. Scott 20. My Fair Lady - G. H. Dalsemer 21. Theme - Jack Lacey 22. Mary G - R. A. Green, Jr. 23. Gloriana - Daniel Henness DNF Blazing Star - F. W. M Janney

1963 Annapolis - Newport Race (88 entries)
Challenge Eighty-eight starters took part in this race noted as the slowest and most frustrating edition ever sailed. It took most boats only 20 hours to go 140 miles to the Chesapeake Lightship, but then came frustrating calms and light going for most of the offshore portion. The fleet had a staggered start which give each boat approximately half her total time allowance at the start. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel was being built in 1963, precluding the usual strategies involved in playing one shore or the other at the mouth of the Bay.

Corrected time winner was Clayton Ewing’s 57’ yawl, Dyna. First to finish (85 hrs. 20 min) and second on corrected time was Challenge, George F Johnson’s 54’ aluminum sloop. William F. Buckley Jr.’s Suzy Wong dropped out for touching a mark (Chesapeake Bay Lightship).

Class A 1. Dyna - Clayton Ewing 2. Challenge - George F. Johnson 3. Jubilee - Francis D. Weatherill 4. Windigo - Walter S. Gubelmann 5. Gesture - James L. Madden 6. Caper - H. Irving Pratt 7. Nina - DeCoursey Fales 8. Bellatrix - Paul C. Nicholson Jr. 9. Corsaro II - Italian Navy 10. Legend - Alfred C. Humphries Jr. 11. Djinn - Henry S. Morgan 12. Highland Light - USNA 13. Bolero - Mrs. Sally Ames Langmuir 14. Royono - USNA 15. Cotton Blossom IV - W. H. Wheeler Jr. 16. Janie C - Leighton C. Coleman 17. Katuna - Gilbert Verney 18. Manitou -USCG	Class B 1. Seaflower - Steven Castle 2. Frolic - USNA 3. Early Dawn - C. Wilson McNeely 3. Tioga - Bradley P. Noyes 4. Palawan - Thomas J. Watson Jr. 5. Madrigal - Albert D. Boardman 2^nd 6. Nipintuck - Edward A. Caswell 7. Icefire - USMMA 8. Magic Carpet - Frank Hardy 9. Pacifica - Valerio Giannini 10. Swift - USNA 11. Interim - A. Lee Loomis Jr. 12. Matinee - Howard A. Kaiser 13. Fearless - USNA 14. Proton II - Charles C. Price 15. Raider - Thomas H. Closs 16. Nancy Lloyd - Stanley Tannenbaum 17. Flirt - USNA 18. Diogenes - Avard Fuller 19. Simba - Ralph W. Greenlee 20. Blithe Spirit - Forbes Morse 21. Optimist - Herbert B. Barlow Jr. 22. Gypsy - USNA 23. Marluva - Henry A. Wise Jr. 24. Teal - Robert F. Snyder 25. Active - USNA

Class C 1. Sun Dance - Clifton F. Loyd 2. Harrier - Jesse Bontecou 3. Firefly - Norvin Rieser Jr. 4. Teetotaler - E. Lawrence Dining 3^rd 5. Wainscott Wind - Stuyvesant Wainwright 2^nd 6. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff Jr. 7. Huntress - Morton H. Engel 8. Tomadrus - Thomas L. Miller 9. Angelique - F. Stanton Deland Jr. 10. Slalom - Raymond F. Smith 11. Magic - Dr. George Nichols 12. Allons - George W. Anderson 13. Alert - Robert B. Armstrong 14. Vixen - Albert J. Deisinger Jr. 15. Xanadu - E. Bates McKee 16. Bonnie Dee - H. L. Derrickson 17. Little Bit - Paul Fleischmann 18. Windquest - A. Justin Wasley 19. Kahili - Henry S. Hidekoper 20. Criterion - Henry H. Villare 21. Adventure - Anthony Marra 22. Islandia - Stanley S. Ross 23. Stortebeker - H. M. Alberts 24. Ca Va - Edward C. Anderso DNF Suzy Wong William F. Buckley Jr.	Class D 1. Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith 2. Fleetwind - Raymond M. Brown 3. Swamp Yankee - W. Van Alan Clark 4. Blazing Star - F. W. M. Janney 5. Kittiwake - Humphrey Simson 6. My Fair Lady - Gordon H. Dalsemer 7. Burgoo - Milton Ernstoff 8. Shamrock - Dr. Everett D. Jones 9. Bo Lele - A. F. Sanford 10. Starward - Edmund W. Poore 11. Rita Mia - Morton A. Rosenheim 12. Dodieva - Henry J. Parker 13. Quandary - Homan F. Hallock 14. Sea Chief II - Raymond P. Scott 15. Blixtar - Danforth Miller Jr. 16. Gloriana - Daniel Hennessy 17. Hermes - Herman Lefco 18. Lancetilla II - Juan M. Cameron

1965 Annapolis-Newport Race (93 boats)
Dyna A record fleet of 93 boats took part, and the elasped time record was broken (66 hrs, 19 min) by the overall winner, again, Dyna, Clayton Ewing’s Easton, MD - based, 57’, 8 year old, Sparkman and Stephens yawl. This was her third win in Class I. She had a new suit of sails from Murphy & Nye in Annapolis.

This edition of the race had the fastest passage out of the Chesapeake in the history of the race. With the first boat (Windigo) doing the 140 miles to Chesapeake Light in 16 ½ hours. The going was light for a while in the ocean, and then it picked up to 18-20 knots for a fast spinnaker run. When it became light and fluky, the elapsed time winner, Escapade, a Rhodes designed 72’ yawl centerboarder, was two miles from the finish (which took her 45 minutes to cover).

Among the smaller boats, the outstanding showing was by the 37’ Tripp-designed Invicta Class sloop Fleetwind owned by Raymond H. Brown, Jr., of Hampton, who won Class V and the Overall Performance Trophy for beating the boats in her class by the largest margin (she was 11^th in fleet). The Class II winner was George Hoffamn’s 47’Sparkman & Stephens sloop Duster, a year old wooden beauty. Second in Class II was Arnold C. Gay’s Babe, a new Cal 40 sloop from Annapolis. He reported a "real ride" in the ocean with her spade rudder making steering easy in the quartering seas at speeds up to nine knots while sliding down some of the larger waves. The Class II winner was the family-manned Owens Cutter Prim of Morton Gibbons-Neff. A consistent performer in this race, she took 5-2-6 in class in the three previous events.

The prevailing theory was that only centerboard yawls do well in a predominately off-wind race was disproved in this one. Three of the five class winners were sloops and two of them had keels.

Class I 1. Dyna - Clayton Ewing 2. Windigo - W. S. Gubelmann 3. Escapade - Grimm & McNamara 4. Gesture - James L. Madden 5. Challenge - G. F. Johnson 6. Caper - H. Irving Pratt 7. Ondine - S. A. Long 8. Petrel - USCGA 9. Diogenes - Avard Fuller 10. Palawan - Thomas J. Watson, Jr. 11. Royono - USNA 12. Legend - A. C. Humphreys, Jr. 13. Geronimo - Grove and Tripp 14. Janie C. - L. H. Coleman 15. Magic Carpet - F. M. Hardy 16. Nina - DeCoursey Fales 17. Karin - Duncan Spencer	Class II 1. Duster - George Hoffman 2. Babe - Arnold Gay 3. Oceanus - C. J. Owens 4. Proton II - C.C. Price 5. Fearless - USNA 6. Madrigal - A. Boardman 2^nd 7. Chee Chee V - Philip Handelman 8. Raider - Thomas H. Closs 9. Beau Geste - A. B. Cassedy 10. Hildegarde - Fred B. Hard 11. Vivace - E. C. Ricotta 12. Xanadu II - E. B. McKee 13. Cockatoo II - Lloyd Bergeson 14. Icefire - USMMA 15. Marluva - H.A. Wise, Jr. 16. Half Moon - F. D. Roosevelt, Jr. 17. Alert - USNA 18. Brigadoon - R.C. Morton 19. Little Bit - Paul Fleishmann 20. Dandy - USNA 21. Foolscap - A. B. Hanson 22. Active - USNA

Class III 1. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff, Jr. 2. Cricket - F. W. Kulicke Jr. 3. Tomadrus - T. L. Miller 4. Bonnie Dee - H. L. Derrickson 5. Teetotaler - E.L. Dinning 6. Alaris - Dr. C. E. Iliff 7. Sitzmark IV - Walter Neumann 8. Falcon - Dorsey Owings 9. Page Girl - R.R. Larson 10. Slalom - Dr. R. F. Smith 11. Mariann - G. B. Gibbons Jr. 12. Duchess of Devonshire - Sir Bayard Dill 13. Wainscott Wind - S. Wainwright 14. Courtesan - J. F. Young 15. Corinthian - Albert Kennerly 16. Scherzo II - N. J. Wiedersum 17. Galatea - W. K. Daniell 18. Islandia - S.S. Ross 19. Allons - G. W. Anderson 20. Seeadler - H. W. Read 21. Sun Dance - C. F. Loyd DNF Firefly - N. H. Reiser, Jr.	Class IV 1. Kirsten - T. E. Rothe 2. Sagola - G. R. Hinman 3. Puffin - E. R. Greeff 4. Reindeer - E. Newbolt Smith 5. Fury - John Murphy 6. Shamrock IV - E. D. Jones 7. Scylla - Dr. G. L. Erdman 8. Kahili - H. S. Huidekoper 9. Westray - B. G. MacNary 10. Tomwock - J. F. Lord 11. Moonfleet - A. E. Whitman 12. Aquinna - C. E. Dunbar 13. Anemone - Tyler Abell 14. Cepheus II - J. S. Poor 15. Trumbull II - Foster Tallman 16. Chanticleer - Parks and Bulman 17. Astra - E. B. Sygnor Jr. 18. Seal - Raymond Milligi, Jr. 19. Alert - R. B. Armstrong

Class V 1. Fleetwind - T. E. Rothe 2. Windquest - Justin Wasley 3. Souffle - W. D. Teague 4. Nituna - Lawrrence Damon 5. Let’s Hope - Norman Raben 6. Agile - John P. Walsh	7. Quandry - H. F. Hallock 8. Blazing Star - F. W. M. Janney 9. Burgoo - Milton Ernstof 10. Rainmaker - Hugo Spatenga 11. Hermes - Herman Lefco 12. En Avant - H. P. Abbott 13. Sea Chief II - R. P. Scott

1967 Annapolis-Newport Race (91 boats)
Lancetilla This running of the race was called the roughest ever. Of the 91 starters, 34 went for shelter when a fierce and persistent northeast storm struck the fleet on the nose after rounding the Chesapeake Light Tower, 125 miles from the start. The total of non-finishers made the race the roughest and toughest in the history of any offshore event in the US up to that time.

Six boats were dismasted. One boat, Vignette, went aground and broke up at the mouth of the Chesapeake while trying to return after dropping out of the race.

The winner was a Cal 40, Lancetilla, skippered by Juan Cameron. Seven other Cal-40s took part, one of which was dismasted. The winds were light in the Chesapeake, and Ted Turners’s aluminum 40’ Vamoose led at the mouth of the Bay. Thomas J. Watson followed with his 58’ aluminum Palawan - who sailed most of the race with a well reefed main and staysail and was first to finish. Class III winner was Morton Gibbons-Neff Jr.’s Owens Cutter Prim, repeating their victory in the 1965 race. Prim, Charlie Ill (Ill Wind) and Bud Diesinger’s Hinckley 41 Vixen all went to the aid of Arnie Gay’s dismasted Cal 36 Babe (receiving compensatory time for their aid). Chesapeake entries took four of five class firsts and 12 of 15 class prizes. Lancetilla’s owner was a correspondent in the Washington, DC, office of Time.

Class I 1. Palawan - Thomas J. Watson, Jr. 2. Maradea - USNA 3. Challenge - George F. Johnson 4. Jubilee - F. D. Wetherill 5. Argyll - W. T. Moore 6. Thunderhead - Paul Hoffmann 7. Kim - Karl Stangl 8. Yankee Girl - David D. Steere 9. Legend - A. C. Humphreys 10. Manukai - Stanley Livingston, Jr. 11. Manitou - USCGA DNF Gesture - James Madden DNF Magic Carpet - Robert S. Robe, Jr. DNF Moorea - P.C. Nicholson, Jr. DNF Tomahawk -William Wright DNF Windigo - Walter S. Gublemann	Class II 1. Lancetilla - Juan M. Cameron 2. Early Dawn - Charles B. Coyer 3. Foolscap - Arthur B. Hanson 4. Williwaw - William P. Pickford 5. Vivace - Edwin C. Ricotta 6. Xanadu II - E. Bates McKee 7. Old Salt - Walter S. Frank 8. Raider - Thomas H. Closs 9. Esquisse - A. E. Poor 10. Nipantuck - Edward S. Caswell 11. Icefire - Charles S. Conway DNF Altair - Alan McCullough DNF Beau Geste - Anthony B. Cassidy DNF Brigadoon - Robert C. Morton DNF Duster - George Hoffman DNF Hildegarde - Fred B. Hard DNF Marluva - Henry B. Wise, Jr. DNF Proton II - Charles C. Price

Class III 1. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff, Jr. 2. Windquest - A. Justin Wasley 3. Vigilant - USNA 4. Schuss - John V. Summerlin 5. Arctic Tern - USCGA 6. Windborne - Frank A. Bedford 7. Chee Chee V - Philip Handelmann 8. Tradition - Robert Rulon-Miller 9. Shearwater - USCGA 10. Khira - S. Yeardley Smith 11. Firefly - Norvin H. Reiser 12. Tantara - L. E. Birdzell 13. Cricket - USMMA 14. Dragon Lady - Ehihu E. Allinson DNF Alison - Alan G. Van Metre, Jr. DNF Artemis - Thomas C. Gresinger DNF Babe - Arnold C. Gay DNF Oceanus - Charles J. Owens DNF Parlay - Todd Goodwin/George Holbrook DNF Suzy Wong - William F. Buckley, Jr. DNF Teetotaler - F. Lawrence Dinning III DNF Vamoose - R. E. Turner III	Class IV 1. Ill Wind - Charles L. Ill 2. Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith 3. Vixen - Albert J. Diesinger Jr. 4. Golden Hind - William P. Drake 5. Golliwog - Wesley R. Rodstrom 6. Astra - Eugene B. Sydnor 7. September Song - S. Grey Dayton Jr. 8. Ca Va - George W. Anderson 9. Kahili - Henry S. Huidekoper 10. Spanker - William Carl 11. Blue Magic - Peter R. Kellogg DNF Alert -Robert B. Armstrong DNF Galatea - William K. Daniells DNF Juniper - George Whitney DNF Scherzo II - Norman J. Wiedersum DNF Summertime - Irwin W. Tyson DNF Chanticleer - Larry Bulman/Jerry Parks

Class V 1. Fleetwind - Raymond M. Brown Jr. 2. En Avant - H. Paul Abbott 3. New World II - Philip Davis 4. Kirsten - Tyge Rothe 5. Burgoo - Milton Ernstoff 6. Euphoria - Bruce Bogert 7. Samantha - John A. Brown 8. Finisterre - J. Vaughn Brown/David Q. Scott 9. Ziphius - Skip Sheldon	10. Mary G - Robert A. Green DNF Absinthe - Henry Sears DNF Fairweather - Thomas P. Hagy DNF Gitana - Ernest H. Burt Jr. DNF Sinsonte - John C. Fellows Jr. DNF Solataire III - Dudley F. Blanchard DNF Strega - David B. Berley DNF Trumbull III - Fosster Tallman DNF Vignette - Roger McAleer

1969 Annapolis-Newport Race (84 boats)
American Eagle Ted Turner’s 12-Meter American Eagle never achieved the primary goal for which she was designed - winning the America’s Cup - but she did win the Annapolis-Newport race on both elapsed and corrected time. She battled boat-for-boat with Huey Long’s 73’ Ondine which allowed American Eagle 2 1/3 hours. Ondine led by eight minutes at the Chesapeake Light. For the next 30 hours the pair averaged almost 10 knots in spinnaker conditions punctuated by severe squalls which did in most of the nine boats that failed to finish. Eagle blew two spinnakers, but passed Ondine in one of the after-dark squalls after Ondine had blown one of her own. Eagle eventually finished 20 minutes ahead of Ondine in 69 hours and 43 minutes, with the third finisher, Windigo, 6½ hours further back.

The 84 boats in the fleet were down from 1965’s record of 93 but it was termed the best in quality of competition the race had seen.

Class I 1. American Eagle - R. E. Turner III (12 Metre) 2. Ondine - S. A. Long (73’) 3. Palawan - Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (57’) 4. Rage - Homer R. Denius 5. Dyna - Clayton Ewing 6. Windigo - Walter S. Gublemann (73’) 7. Maredea - Van Dyck, USNA 8. Jubilee III - Abbott, USNA 9. Stella Polare - Cdr. Georgio Belliaardi 10. Gesture - James L. Madden 11. Doric - Stanley Tananbaum 12. Severn Star - Capt. Robert D. Steele, USNA 13. Wandelaar - S. V. Wlaker Jr. 14. Morning Light - A. G. Hull WDR Equation - John T. Potter WDR Sea Lion - Gilbert Verney	Class II 1. Salty Tiger - Walter S. Frank (Derector 46) 2, Blackjack - H. J. Reed (S&S 44) 3. Thunderhead - Paul Hoffmann 4. Lisa Lee - H. L. Derrickson 5. Carillon - Wells Morss 6. Trumbull IV - Foster Tallman 7. Etoile - Eugene B. Snydor Jr. 8. Proton II - Charles C. Price 9. Kate - R. W. Hubner 10. Gemini - Wm. Zeigler III 11. Yankee Girl - David D. Steere 12. Runn - Michael Berner 13. Avatar - George F. Baker III 14. Brigadoon - Robert C. Morton 15. Marluva - Henry A. Wise Jr. 16. Perelandra - Charles Teetor

Class III 1. Windquest (Cal 37) - A. Justin Wasley 2. Congere (Cal 40) - Bevin D. Koeppel 3. Ill Wind (Hinkley 41) - Charles L. Ill 4. Soogie Moogie - James H. castle 5. Syriene - James R. Shepley 6. Lancetilla - Juan Cameron 7. Chee Chee V - Philip Handelman 8. Altair - Alan McCullough 9. Alison - Albert G. Van Metre 10. Artemis - T. H. Gresinger 11. Resistance - LCDR R Cheseborough 12. Fairweather - Thomas P. Hagy 13. Sitzmark - Walter Neumann 14. Calypso - Cameron Clark Jr. 15. Foolscap - Arthur B. Hanson 16. Barbara - A. F. Suse WDR Early Dawn - F. L. Duffy	Class IV 1. Arete - Charles L. Shumway (PT-40) 2. Terrapin - C. Edward Hartman II (Cal 36) 3. Babe - Arnold C. Gay (Hughes 38) 4. Cayenne - Donald L. Tate 5. Vixen - Albert J. Diesinger 6. Spindrift - David M. Saunders 7. Wainscott Flame - Stuyvesant Wainwright II 8. Hirondelle - Henry M. Chance II 9. Bat - W. M. Samuels 10. Ariana - Henry P. Becton 11. Fantasy - Fred Hibberd 12. Comtesse - E. Lee LeCompte 13. Dragon Lady - Elihu E. Allinson 14. Khira - S. Yeardley Smith 15. Kantara - L. E. Birdzell WDR Phoenix - Charles B. Coyer WDR Vignette - Roger W. McAleer

Class V 1. Fleetwind (Invicta) - Raymond M. Brown Jr. 2. Pageant (Ohlson 38) - John H. Page 3. Summertime (Bristol 39) - Irwin W. Tyson 4. Replique - Robert B. Bavier Jr. 5. Golden Hind - William P. Drake 6. Seeadler - Howard Read 7. Euphoria - Bruce P. Bogert 8. Sinsonte - John C. Fellows Jr.	9. Alert - Robert B. Armstrong 10. Anodyne II - Harvey W. Weldon 11. Fiddler of Maine - Robert Amory Jr. 12. September Song - S. Grey Dayton Jr. 13. Winsome - Frank B. Muller 14. Black Mallard - Franklin C. McRoberts WDR Chanticleer - Larry Bulman WDR Karinda Wright/Culver WRD Pisces -Thomas Vickery WRD Zarabanda - William G. Tyler

1971 Annapolis-Newport Race (91 boats)
Sorcery James French Baldwin’s ultralight Sorcery, a Cuthbertson & Cassian designed fiberglass 61’, took all the marbles in the 91 boat fleet. In a near repetition on the 1969 race, two big boats raced each other the whole way. Again Ted Turner’s 12-Meter American Eagle was participating in the duel, but this time she lost by 54 minutes. Third and 4^th overall were two Admiral’s Cup boats, 56’ Yankee Girl and 49’ Bay Bea, both Sparkman and Stephens designs.

Class I 1. Sorcery - James F. Baldwin 2. American Eagle - R. E. Turner III 3. Yankee Girl - David G. Steere 4. Dora - Williams 5. Windigo - Gubelman 6. Charisma - Philips 7. Nepenthe - Learson 8. Jubilee III - USNA 9. Gesture - Hutchins 10. Anadarko - Kennedy 11. Caper - USCGA 12. Brigadoon - Morton 13. Maradea - Coit WDR Pleione - Santry	Class II 1. Bay Bea - Patrick E. Haggerty 2. Aura - Wallace J. Stenhouse Jr. 3. Sitzmark - Walter Neumann 4. Challenge - Johnson 5. Solution - Ramsing 6. Beth-a-Belle III - Hennessy 7. Rage - USNA 8. Beau Geste - Cassedy 9. Salty Tiger - Frank and Powell 10. Grundoon - Grundy 11. Puffin - Greeff 12. Bandit - Van Metre 13. Mohawk - Snyder 14. Xanadu II - McKee

Class III 1. Harpoon (PJ 43) - Marck C. Ewing 2. Shadow II (C&C Redline 41) - Kack Zenks/Frank Batten 3. Soogie Moogie (Cal 37) - James Castle 4. Conquest - Seaman 5. Dove - Greene 6. New World - Davis 7. Cepheus III - Poor 8. Ill Wind - Ill 9. Lancetilla - Cameron 10. Reindeer - Smith 11. Firebrand - Bics 12. Man-O’-War - Valdes 13. Vitesse - Buress 14. Puppet - Redmond 15. Sinn Fein - Walsh 16. Tantra - Chewning 17. Charisma - Beres 18. Chee Chee V - Handelman 19. Skylark - Decker 20. Sandia IV - Krise 21. Barbara - Susen 22. Foolscap - Hanson	Class IV 1. Fling (Chance 36) - Henry M. Chance II 2. Saltine (C&C 35) - Robert B. Armstrong 3. Persephone (Hughes 38) - William L. Greene 4. Tabasco (PJ-40) - Barker 5. Sinn Fein - McGready 6. Prim - Gibbons-Neff 7. Cayenne - Tate 8. Hermes - Lefco 9. Citadel - Nairn 10. Vixen - Diesinger 11. Spindrift - Saunders 12. Naiad - Read 13. Jemel - Slingluff 14. Chanticleer - Bulman/Parks 15. Tantara - Birdzell 16. Golden Hind - Drake 17. Wainscott Flame - Wainwright 18. Khira - Smith 19. Vib - Ferris 20. Dragon Lady - Allinson 21. Alcyone - Wright WDR Sequin - Buttner

Class V 1. Little Babe - Arnold C. Gay (PT-30) 2. Fleetwind - Raymond M Brown Jr. (Invicta) 3. Polar Bear - Angus P. McIntyre (Cal 36) 4. Mistress - Hilgendoroff 5. Pageant - Page 6. Barra - McNeil 7. Dionis - Hayden 8. Scoot - Dyer 9. Caroline - Benson	10. Mary - McCullough 11. Bellwether - Gleason 12. Anodyne II - Weldon 13. Landsend - Crain 14. Souffle - Teague 15. Rebel - Lee 16. Reddi Fox III - Schlesinger WDR Tuxn - Boulokos WDR Resolute - Gill WDR Fairweather - Hagy

1973 Annapolis-Newport Race (81 boats)
Equation, Jack Potter’s 68’ ketch, set an elapsed time record for the 473 miles of 57 hours and 18 minutes, took top in fleet of the 81 starters, and the Class I award. Crew of the boat included 12 meter helmsmen Bob McCullough and George Hinman, and Don Browning, Vic Romagna and Ed Cotter. The boat was, at the time, the biggest boat ever built to the IOR rule.

The race started in the Chesapeake with the wind on the nose at 18 knots. In the southern bay it built to 35 knots. At the Chesapeake Light, spinnakers were up in the fog. In the ocean, the wind shifted to the northeast and built to 40 knots. Equation sailed with a double-reefed main, a #4, a reefed mizzen and no staysail. Equation finished just before the wind died after Block Island. If the wind had held, Al Van Metre’s 61’ Running Tide would have caught Equation on corrected time. But it did not, and Equation won.

Class I 1. Equation - John T. Potter 2. Running Tide - Albert G. Van Metre 3. Sorcery - James F. Baldwin 4. Kahili II - Zurn 5. Wandelaar - Walker 6. Zephyros - Baringer 7. La Forza del Destino - Raben 8. Yankee Girl - Steere 9. Congere - Koeppel 10. Aquarius - Willis 11. Barlovento II - DuPont 12. Outrage - USNA 13. Caper - USCG	Class II 1. Kate - Robert W. Hubner 2. Mary Lee - H. L. Derrickson 3. Aura - Wallace J. Stenhouse Jr. 4. Kirsten - Rothe 5. Zest - Pratt 6. Destination - Hoyt 7. Jemel - Grant 8. Challenge - Johnson 9. Fantasia - Pearson 10. Rage - USNA 11. Beth-a-Belle - Hennessy 12. Gesture II - Madden 13. Sitzmark - Neumann 14. Perelandra - Teetor 15. War Baby - Brow WDR Chee Chee - Handelman

Class III 1. Harpoon - Mark C. Ewing 2. Shadow - Frank Batten 3. Tantra - E. Taylor Chewning, Jr. 4. Fun - Thomas H. Closs 5. Toscana - Swenson 6. Beau Geste - Cassedy 7. Lejune II - Daneluzzi 8. Moonbeam - Rothschild 9. Grundoon - Grundy 10. Foolscap - Hanson WDR Etoile - Snydor	Class IV 1. Merrythought - John W. King 2. Cayenne - Donald L. Tate 3. Caroline - Charles F. Benson 4. Reindeer - E. N. Smith 5. West Wind - Crobaugh 6. Black Mallard - McRoberts 7. Yellow Jacket - Bulman 8. Black Jack - Liszka 9. Pageant - Page 10. No Way - Donley 11. Hallelujah - Violette 12. Banshee - Almeida 13. Patience - Warden 14. Ill Wind - Ill 15. Kahuna II - Leebrick 16. Lancetilla - Cameron 17. Cyrene - Weldon 18. Puppet - Redmond 19. Chance - Gundry 20. Ossipee - USCGA

Class V 1. Lightin’ - T.E. Turner 2. The Magic Twanger - Anthony W. Parker 3. Titan - Dr. A. W. Patterson Jr. 4. Snallygaster - Stein 5. Circe - Newkirk/Magee 6. Babe - Arnold C. Gay 7. Nicole - T. du Pont 8. Thunderer - Peach 9. Vib - Ferris	10. Poker Chip - Freeman 11. Tabasco - Barker 12. Trumbull V - Tallman 13. Vixen - Diesinger 14. Yellowbird - Gill 15. Content II - Touhey 16. Buldog Drummond - Stearns/Donald 17. Khira - Smith 18. Dragon Lady - Allinson WDR Gold Whale - Gordy WDR Persephone - Greene

1975 Annapolis-Newport Race (85 entries)
Bob Derecktor’s 54’ Salty Goose won both fleet and Class I, racing against two Admiral Cup’s boats (Charisma and Tenacious), and the new Kialoa. Salty Goose just finished before the wind died but the next boat, Jesse Phillips’ Charisma, took 4 hours to cover the last 16 miles. The 85 boat fleet had a beat out of the Chesapeake and a beam reach in the ocean. Kialoa, flying her jibtop on her staysail rig, finished the race in 55 hours and 40 minutes, setting a new elapsed record. Ted Turner’s Tenacious was dismasted near the Potomoc River.

Class I 1. Salty Goose - Robert E. Derecktor 2. Kialoa - John B. Kilroy 3. Running Tide - A. G. Van Metre Jr. 4. Tempest - Eric Ridder 5. Safari - Paul W. Adams 6. La Forza del Destino - Raben 7. Yankee Girl - Steere 8. Congere - Koeppel 9. Gannet - Wickersham 10. War Baby - Brown RET Venceremos - Lee	Class II 1. Charisma - Jesse Phillips 2. Miss Wick - Tad Stanwick 3. Windliese - William G. Gahagan 4. Hokulele - Livingston 5. Aura - Stenhouse 6. Insurgente - Sander, USNA 7. Dyna - Ewing 8. Outrage - Messick USNA 9. No Way - Donley 10. Etoile - Syndor 11. Wandelaar - Walker 12. Fun - Closs Sr. and Jr. 13. Avenger - Davis, USNA 14. Beau Geste - Fry RET Tenacious - Turner

Class III 1. Chasseur - Frank V. Snyder 2. Wizard - Richard F. Coons 3. Harpoon - Mark C. Ewing 4. Jubilee - Fisher/Ramsing 5. Yellow Jacket - Bulman 6. Sitzmark - Neumann 7. Blue Angel - Groo 8. Toscana - Swenson 9. Ranger - Kilbourn, USNA 10. Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith 11. Kahuna II - Lebrick 12. Blackjack - Liska 13. Allons - Anderson 14. Lejune II - Daneluzzi 15. Banshee - Almeida 16. Xanadu II - Clark 17. Shadow - Batten	Class IV 1. Gaylark - Kaighn Smith, MD 2. Tramp - E. Ralph James, Jr. 3. Cayenne - Tate 4. Titan - Patterson 5. Pirate - McIlhenny 6. Ariel - Hughes 7. Tern - Usiskin 8. Bluebird - Kohlhepp 9. Vib - Feris 10. Celerite - Mynderse 11. Circe - Newkirk 12. Cavalier - Hepler 13. Cricket - Birney 14. Anthem - Geis 15. Chance - Gundry 16. Sundowner - Corey 17. Swift - Chenault, USNA 18. Vigilant - Howard, USNA 19. Sandia IV - Krise 20. Langsyne - McAteer

Class V 1. Goodly Fare - James R. Whittemore 2. Vamp - Robert E. Doyle 3. The Magic Twanger - Arnold D. Gay 4. Pride - Leonard 5. Rappahannock - Hulcher 6. Stegosaurus - Stege 7. Crocadile - Carter 8. Andiano Robin - Raby 9. Ginger - Lampman 10. Cascade - Milgram	11. Tinker Toy - Scaborough/Fletcher 12. Revenge - Peach 13. Pitfire - Maver 14. Quintessance - Michaelson 15. Soogie Moogie - Castle 16. Calliope - Lewis 17. Prince of Donegal - O’Donnell 18. Barra - McNeil 19. Volta - Van Liew 20. Quantum - Greene 21. Gold Whale - Gordy

1977 Annapolis-Newport Race (79 entries)
Described as "the longest, the slowest, the certainly the dullest and most frustrating" ever for the 79 entries, this edition of the race was won by Jack Knife, a Ron Holland designed Two-Tonner, which beat Randy Scarborough’s Chance-designed Wildflower by less than five minutes. The start was in clear skies with a blustery nor’wester gusting to 25 knots. Spinnakers and bloopers stretched from one shore of the Chesapeake to the other. The wind died and then went into the southeast and blew some more. It looked like a fast race. Then, for two days, the fleet beat towards Newport in light northeasterlies, punctuated by calms. Fog, glassy seas and fitful winds were common. The first over the line, Tempest, an 80’ ketch, was 24 hours behind the course record of 56 hours.

Class I 1.Tempest - Eric Ridder 2. Yankee Girl - David Steere 3. Guerriere - USNA/D. Gearing 4. Congere - Raymond Brown 5. Syren - USNA/R. Dibbink 6. Gannet - James Wickersham 7. Venceremos - Arthur Lee 8. Demon - Albert Gilson 9. Inverness - Comm. R. McCullough	Class II 1. Jubilee - Chris Fisher 2. Merrythought - John King 3. Tatoosh - Robert Hutton 4. Recluta - Walter Hanson 5. Mandate - Morgon Barker 6. Aysel - Robert Morton 7. Patriot - USNA/L. Konrad 8. Surge - J. Little/P. Clempner 9. Reindeer - Newbold Smith 10. Zephyr - Eugene Snyder 11. Toscana - Eric Swenson 12. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff 13. Immigrant - William McAteer 14. Content II - Carl Touhey 15. Festive Mood - John Gibson 16. Hokulele - S. Livingston

Class III 1. Jack Knife - Jack Greenberg 2. Wildflower - Randy Scarborough 3. Madcap - Charles Leighton 4. Big Schott - Mel Schott 5. Wildfire - Preston Smith 6. Red Breast - Morton Saunders 7. Golden Girl - John Hill 8. Titan - A. W. Patterson 9. Sundowner - Samuel Corey 10. Cricket - James White 11. Cavalier - John Hepler 12. Kahuna II - Paul Leebrick 13. Stinger - Thomas Wentz 14. Papillon - Edward Skinner 15. Alert - USNA/J. Storvick 16. Vib - William Ferris 17. Banshee - Robert Almeida 18. Ripple - USCG/C.M.Stone	Class IV 1. Yellow Jacket - Bulman/Scholz/Winston 2. Goldfish - Harquail/Zinn 3. Gaylark - Kaighn Smith 4. Captain Cool - Noel Coon 5. Vixen - Albert Diesinger 6. Muskrat - J. Thompson/T. Lucke 7. Goodly Fere - James Whitmore 8. Mandala - John Zeren 9. Fair American - USNA/Robert Julian 10. Circe - Thomas Newkirk 11. Firebrand - USNA/ P. Ozinek 12. Manu Forti - E. Bates McKee 13. Gin - Allen Davis 14. Easterly - William East 15. Anthem - Peter A. Geis 16. Cygnet - John Lampman 17. Angelique - Charles Granville

Class V 1. Dandy - USNA/ H. Nyberg 2. Fun - T. Closs/T. Closs Jr. 3. Vitesse - Carroll Buress 4. Wainscott Folly - Jonathan Ingham 5. Paddington Bear - C. Blackwell 6. Resolute - USNA/R. Faulkner 7. Frolic - USNA/R. O’Sullivan 8. Vigilant - USNA/R. Sutter

1979 Annapolis-Newport Race (76 entries)
First to finish - Ondine, Sumner A. Long, 67 hours and 22 minutes
Overall winner on corrected time - Tenacious, Ted Turner

Class I 1. Tenacious - Ted Turner 2. Ondine - Sumner A. Long 3. Inverness - R. W. McCullough 4. Running Tide - Al Van Metre 5. Pleione - Arthur J. Santry Jr. 6. Cayenne - Donald L. Tate 7. Scaramouche - David D. Stere 8. Tempest - Eric Ridder 9. Congere - Bevin D. Koeppel 10. Desperado - John C. Tuttle 11. Immigrant - Bill McAteer 12. Alliance - USNA/Mathison 13. Circus Maximus - Raby/Ritrer	Class II 1. Obsession - Nichols/Doyle 2. Flying Cloud - Raymond M. Brown Jr. 3. Zephyr - Eugene Sydnor Jr. 4. Congere - Bevin Koeppel 5. Fiddler - Alfred Van Liew 6. Arete - Charles Shumway 7. Jack Knife - S. Thompson Wheatley 8. Wildflower - Randle Scarborough 9. Tabasco - Robert Aron 10. Patriot - USNA/Saylor 11. Red Breast - Mrton Saunders 12. Easterly - William East 13. Mandate - Morgan Barker 14. Valkyrie - Norman Owens 15. Chance - Hart Beaver 16. Reprisal - USNA/Fitzpatrick

Class III 1. Yellow Jacket - Larry Bulman 2. Twain - Millard Pierce 3. Sweet Chariot - Berl Bernhard 4. Magic - James Marenakos 5. Curlew - Smith/Smith Jr. 6. Liberty - USNA/Vann 7. My Way - Katherine Leland 8. Taniwha - Harry Anderson Jr. 9. Wahoo - Henry Fretz 10. Circe - Thomas Newkirk 11. Pursuit - USNA/Carr 12. Barefoot Contessa - David Fisher 13. Gin - Alan Davies 14. Geraldine - Joseph McCarthy Jr. 15. Shenandoah - Francis Iglehart 16. Blackjack - Victor Liszka	Class IV 1. Arcadia - R. G. Stone Jr. 2. Brass Ring - Nicholas Schaus 3. Resolution - Shepley/Timken 4. Prim - Morton Gibbons-Neff Jr. 5. Vib - William Ferris 6. Reindeeer - E. Newbold Smith 7. Fun - Closs/Closs Jr. 8. Mame - Steele Griswold 9. Kahuna II - Paul Leebrick Jr. 10. Insurgente - USNA/Jaques 11. Cricket - James White 12. Carib Owl - Charles Owens 13. Sundowner - Samuel Corey 14. Vitesse - Carroll Buress 15. Golden Girl - John Hill 16. Bean Sloop - Robert Young

Class V 1. Gaylark - Kaighn Smith 2. Vixen - Albert Diesinger Jr. 3. Ill Wind - Charles Ill 4. Mandala - John Zeren 5. Honey - Alan Franck 6. Xanadu II - Bates McKee 7. Flirt - USNA/Pirozzi 8. Shearwater - USNA/Beck	9. Restless - USNA/Wilbert 10. Intrepid - USNA/Mowins 11. Swift - USNA/Wray 12. Lively - USNA/Van Der Werken RET Active - USNA/Reichert RET Alert - USNA/Wright RET Frolic - USNA/Wetherald RET Restless - Alfred Lovell

1981 Annapolis-Newport Race (73 entries)
First to finish - Flyer in 78 hours and 52 minutes
Overall fleet winners on corrected time - Impasse (IOR), Mandate (MHS)

Class I (IOR) 1. Running Tide - A. van Metre 2. Boomerang - G. Coumantaros 3. Congere - B. D. Koeppel 4. Tempest - E. Ridder 5. Cayenne - D. Tate 6. Morning Star - J. Amborse Jr. 7. Flyer - C. Van Reitschoten 8. Blithe Spirit - P. Hayes Jr. WDR Kialoa - J. Kirby	Class II (IOR) 1. Impasse - W. PAcker 2. Immigrant - W. McAteer 3. Wildflower - R. Scarborough 4. Red Breast - M. Sunders 5. Dynamo - G. W. Moog 6. Merrythought - J. King 7. Foxfire - USCGA/McGraw 8. Patriot - USNA/O'Brien 9. Willowwind - L. A. Waken 10. Gin - A. L. Davies WDR Pageant - J. H. Page

Class III (IOR) 1. Invictus - B. Bernhard 2. Goldfish - Harquail/Zinn 3. Albemarle Pippin - R. S. Scott 4. Avenger - NASS/Hilarides 5. Hawke - NASS/Patton 6. Cricket - E. T. White 7. Circe - T. Newkirk 8. Outlaw - E. D. Smith 9. Loose - R. Rohman 10. Cold Gold - D. Breen 11. Caper - S. Hiltabidle 12. Waterway - E. Crowley 13. Driven - R. Duncan 14. Ginny Lee - J. R. Tate WDR Slingshot - W. Atwill	Class IV (MHS) 1. Mandate - M. Barker 2. Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith 3. Mareva II - USCGA/Campbell 4. Toscana - E. Swenson 5. Resolution - Shelpey/Timken 6. Festive Mood - J. M. Gibson 7. Fun - Closs/Closs 8. Constellation - NASS/Nolan 9. Easterly - W. J. East 10. Andrea - H. Clark 11. Vib - W. Ferris 12. Spitfire - NASS/Doherty 13. Pursuit - N. Dawley 14. Kahuna II - J. Leebrick 15. Circe - E. Greene 16. Insurgente - NASS/Craver 17. Papillon - Skinner/White 18. Thunder - W. G. Grout 19. Pamir - F. H. Curren

Class V (MHS) 1. Gaylark - K. Smith 2. Allons - G. W. Anderson 3. Impulsive - D. C. White 4. Sundowner - S. Corey 5. Frolic - NASS/Pescatore 6. Flyway - O. Reid 7. Vigilant - NASS/Simpson 8. Sundance - F. Wadsworth 9. Pegasus - W. Passano	10. Shishi - G. Stricker 11. Dandy - NASS/Hire 12. Bean' Sloop - R. H. Young 13. Happy - H. Nehms 14. Buster Brown - J. R. Brown WDR gold Rush - H. T. Donaldson WDR Mischief - Ferguson/Killian WDR Kidaal - R. Bisgyer WDR Shenandoah - F. Inglehart WRD Suzanne - T. Strange

1983 Annapolis-Newport Race (72 entries)
First to finish - Running Tide, 87 hours and 20 minutes
First in fleet on corrected time - Esprit (IOR), Gaylark (MHS), Blitz (PHRF)

Class I (IOR) 1. Running Tide - Albert Van Metre 2. Toscana - Eric Swenson 3. Cayenne - Donald Tate 4. Morning Light - USNA/Smith 5. Wunder Bear - Clarence Blackwell 6. Thorin - Richard Terhorst 7. Patriot - USNA/Edwards 8. Blithe Spirit - Paul Hayes 9. Bay Bea - USNA/O'Brien RET - Tempest	Class II (IOR) 1. Esprit - Peter Van Arsdale 2. Merrythought - Jack King 3. Hoppin' Gator - S. Thomas Wheatley 4. Dawn Treader - Lawrence Cohen 5. Brandwine - USNA/Gross 6. Dancer - E. B. Sydnor 7. Razzle Dazzle - Irwin & Barton 8. Firebrand - Chris Kramer 9. Ace - Dennis Gorley 10. Mareva II - USCGA/McGraw 11. Aphoencicius - Edward J. Anderson 12. Priority One - Jack Weis

Class III (IOR) 1. Sugar - Scott Allan/Brad Parket 2. Invictus - Bernhard/Leebrick 3. Bludfish - Alan Harquail 4. Driven - Michael Duncan 5. Spindrift - David Saunders 6. Blue Yankee - Robert C. Towse 7. Slingshot - William Atwell 8. Yellow Jacket - Larry Bulman 9. Caper - Stephen Hiltabidle 10. Alaris - Nicholas Iliff 11. Ramrod - Bert Jabin 12. Orange Blosson - Robert & Todd Johnston 13. By - Benson/Farley 14. Floating Prime - Sweetser/Huffman RET Limit Move - William Wenck Jr.	Class IV (MHS) 1. Donnybrook - James Muldoon 2. Constellation - USNA/Moran 3. Fun - Closs/Closs 4. Andrea - Hays Clark 5. Insurgente - USNA/Watson 6. Pursuit - Norman L. Dawley 7. Springbok - David A. Rosow 8. Aeolus - Anthony Chiurco 9. Arcadaia - Robert G. Stone Jr. 10. Spitfire - USNA/Rabuse 11. Avenger - USNA/Henderson RET Reindeer - E. Newbold Smith

Class V (MHS) 1. Gaylark - Kaighn Smith 2. Full Cry - Robert Crompton 3. Bodacious - Ted Repplier 4. Obsession - Peter Rittman 5. Orient Express Frederick Hoerner 6. Gin - Allen Davies 7. Ecstasy - Konrad Murrer 8. Fearless - USNA/Webster 9. Swallow - John Brooks 10. Sheanigans - Bruce Buckheit 11. Frolic - USNA/Quist 12. Flirt - USNA/Buck RET Cara - Michael Kettenbach RET Festive Mood - John M. Gibson RET Spirit - James F. Douglass RET Ice Company - Ashby Reardon Jr.	Class VI (PHRF) 1. Blitz - Eric Smith 2. Havoc - W. E. Colburn Jr. 3. Sara B - R. R. Price III 4. Sprite - Rydor/Price 5. Intention 2 - Joel Auerbach 6. Counterpoint - John W. Cane 7. Honey - Alan Frank RET Caper - Steve Sanders

1985 Annapolis-Newport Race (55 entries)
First to finish - Blade Runner in 77 hours and 47 minutes
First in fleet on corrected time - Silver Star (IOR), Invictus (MHS)

Class I (IOR) 1. Silver Star - D. Clarke 2. Dr. Feelgood - S. Hillman 3. Uptown Girl - James Scott 4. Blade Runner - A. G. Van Metre 5. Air Mail - D. M. Saunders 6. Immigrant - W. McAteer 7. That Cat - E. J. Anderson 8. Flyway - O. Reid 9. Vengeance - USNA/Doyle 10. Hunter - USNA/Christman 11. Wunder Bear - C. Blackwell 12. Fury - USNA/Strong 13. Toscana - E. Swenson 14. Dancer - E. B. Sydnor 15. Nimbus - J. F. Brooks 16. Syncopation - J. A. Georges	Class II (IOR) 1. Gator - T. Wheatley 2. Shenandoah - C. J. Carra 3. Crecendo - S. B. Hiltabidle 4. Uh-Oh - C. R. Smith Jr. 5. Blue Yankee - R. C. Towse Jr. 6. Faces - L. MArtin 7. Auf Gehts - W. Miller 8. Driven - R. M. Duncan 9. Windquest - J. Defelice 10. Moonlighter - M. J. O'Neil 11. Slingshot - Dr. W. H. Atwill

Class III (MHS) 1. Invictus - B. Bernhard 2. Bravo - C. Dolan 3. Donnybrook - J. P. Muldoon 4. Cinnabar - L. Partida 5. Thorin - R. B. Terhorst 6. Semper Fidelis - USNA/Grieco 7. Morning Light - USNA/Capt. J. B. Bonds 8. Constellation - J. M. O'Donnell 9. Store Bought Woman - E. J. Steadman 10. Buster Brown - J. R. Brown III 11. Donalinda - S. Dunbar 12. Aeolus - A. Chiurco 13. Blud Jay - Wilson/Norris 14. Counterpoint - Cdr. J. W. Cane 15. Sea Witch - E. L. Lanahan	Class IV (MHS) 1. Quicksliver - Sinnickson/Saylor 2. Gaylark - Dr. K. Smith 3. Bodacious - T. S. Repplier 4. Anthem - Peter Geis 5. Snow White - Capt. E Shuman III 6. Blue Fish - Alan Harquail 7. Impeccable Chaos - J. H. Somerset 8. Stinger - C. H. Smith 9. Festive Mood - J. M. Gibson 10. Dolphin - D. Goodliffe 11. Allons - G. W. Anderson 12. Marjorie - R. V. Cosel Jr. 13. Giant Step - C. W. Banks

1987 Annapolis-Newport Race (68 entries)
A race record which stood until 1999 was set in this running of the race by Starlight Express, a Santa Cruz 70. She finished in 53 hours and 31 minutes, beating the previous record of 55 hrs and 40 minutes.

Class 1, IOR 1. Starlight Express - B.A.EISSNER 2. Gem - W.ZIEGLER III 3. Congere - B.D.KOEPPEL 4. That Cat - E.J.ANDERSON 5. Vengence - J.J.DUKE, JR. 6. Fury - M.J.HOSKEN 7. Seahawk - T.J.CLARK	Class 2, IOR 1. RAMPAGE - R.G.RICHMOND 2. PHANTOM - S.G.CARROLL 3. CONSPIRACY - CAHOOTS SYND. 4. EUROCLASS - D.C.WHITE 5. RASCAL - R.MCCRANEY 6. CHABLIS - J.P.VEASY 7. DR. DEGAGE - B.&J.JOHNSON WDN JACK KNIFE - J.J.GREENBERG WDN RESTITUTION - W.E.SIMMONS.JR. WDN CIRO - DE SOLE/ZWINGEL

Class 3, IMS 1. BRAVO - J. DOLAN 2. REINDEER - E.N.SMITH 3. MORNING LIGHT - J.K.MCNERNEY 4. HUNTER - T.A.MAXFIELD 5. THORIN - R.B.TERHORST 6. DONNYBROOK - J.P.MULDOON 7. CONSTELLATION - A.T.CALANDRA 8. CINNABAR - MIDN M.MAGLIN 9. CONQUEST - L.P.ZACCARDI	Class IV, IMS 1. PIRATE TWIN - D.FLYN 2. LYRA - D.GREGORY 3. PRELUDE - W.S.SHELHORSE 4. DESIREE - L.J.SITAR 5. EVELUTION - CAD 1/C B BROWN 6. SYNERGIS - W.S.PLETCHER JR 7. MADAM X - G.H.WILSON, -JR. 8. LONGTAIL - P.M.BELL 9. ANEJO - W.T.WILDE 10. AEOLUS - A.A.CHIURCO 11. VIXEN - G.COWAN 12. STRIKER - D.HALE

Class V, IMS 1. BLUE FISH - A.HARQUAIL 2. CRESCENDO - S.B.HILTABIDLE 3. INVICTUS - B.BERNHARD 4. BLITZ - E. SMITH 5. P.O.S.H. - E. F. STOER 6. ANTHEM - P. A. GEIS 7. BATTLEWAGON - J. A. HANNA 8. STINGER - STINGER SYN. 9. ALLONS - G. W. ANDERSON 10. FESTIVE MOOD - I. M. GIBSON 11. SHENANIGANS - B. C. BUCKHEIT 12. Pollywanna Cracker - L. KUMINS WDN ELSKE - P. A. HUTCHINSON WDN TOLERANCE - R. M. DUNCAN WDN GREAT SHOAL - W. W. ALDER WDN PISTOL PETE - C. & D. HELLER	Class 6, PHRF 1. MORPHEUS - R. J. KITZ 2. BLUE MAX - P. J. MRAZ 3. SNOW WHITE - E.A.SHUMAN III 4. JAMM'D - F.DANOVITZ 5. MOTLEY - B.J.TOMASEK 6. MORNING STAR - K.KLOTZ WDN FETE ACCOMPLI - R. M. Johnson Class 7, PHRF 1. EIGHT BALL - D. H. HUFF,JR. 2. SPIRIT - J. F. DOUGLASS HNF KRISTINE - J. F. WHITE HNF BWANA - R. A. Boyle HNF INTEGRITY - H. T. Meneely Jr. WDN LUDVIK- A. P. ANTINGRI WDN SEA MOUSE - A. BARBEY
Yachts with a finish time of HNF Had Not Finished at the time the results sheet was printed.

1989 Annapolis-Newport Race (46 boats)
First to finish - Congere, B. Koeppel, 79 hours and 30 minutes
Corrected time winners - Dragon Fire (IMS), Congere (IOR), and Snow White (PHRF)

CLASS I IOR 1. CONGERE - B. KOEPPEL 2. SEA HAWK - ENS. D. NOLAN 3. ROLL'EM - A. CONWAY NYYC	CLASS II IMS 1. ENCORE - J. DOLAN NYYC 2. SCARAMOUCHE - WA R. ALLARDICE III NYYC 3. REINDEER - E.N. SMITH NYYC 4. INSURGENTEEN - S. J. SELKIRK 5. CONQUEST - P.K. LEHARDY NASS 6. DONNYBROOK - J.P. MULDOON SSC 7. MORNING LIGHT - D. GORDILLO NASS 8. CHASSEUR - F.V. SNYDER 9. CINNABAR - ENS. C. OWENS 10. DELTA-7 - A. DAVIES

CLASS III IMS 1. DRAGON FIRE - D. ELLIMAN 2. LOTUS - LOTUS SYN. 3. DAUNTLESS - M. ROSE 4. CRESCENDO - S. HILTABIDLE 5. INVICTUS - B. BERNHARD 6. FEARLESS - S.G. VERNER 7. TOTAL ECLIPSE - G.& K. ROSSOW 8. HOT SPIT - J. CAPRON 9. SOOGIE-MOOGIE - 2/C R. WILCOX 10. STRIKER - D. HALE	CLASS IV IMS 1. INSIGHT - HARQAIL/JOHNS 2. SEAJAW II - W. DEMAS 3. BAM - G.N. SMERNOFF 4. ANTHEM - P. GEIS 5. SAKER - T. KIRKPATRICK 6. MUSTANG SALLY - S. GUNTHER 7. FLASHDANCER - R. HORN 8. 4 COLOR - A. PERNI, JR. 9. RASCAL - G. STRICKER

CLASS V PHRF 1. SNOW WHITE - B. Shuman AYC 2. PRIM - H. GIBBONS-NEFF 3. PTARMIGAN - L. DICKIE 4. JAMM'D - F. DANOVITZ MRYC 5. TIGRESS - R. WALDSCHMITT SMSA 6. LICKETY SPLIT - C. HARKER CSA 7. HUNTER - T. SANDENO NASS 8. NORTHERN LIGHTS - T. H. LOMAX	CLASS VI PHRF 1. TERRIFIC - 0. TOM-FELDE 2. LA PANACEE - E.R. ROWTHERS 3. WISP - A. TUROWSKI 4. SOUTHERN YANKEE - B. MURRAY 5. BWANA - B. BOYLE 6. INTEGRITY - H.T. MENEELY

1991 Annapolis-Newport Race (55 boats)
The 435-miles (with 55 boats racing in three IMS and three PHRF handicap classes) saw at least 12 teams, most of who were in Class V PHRF - the smallest boats in the race - withdrawing from the race after experiencing difficulty in heavy weather offshore, followed by a calm near the finish

First over the finish line, at 11:24 p.m. Monday, was New Yorker Bevin Koeppel's Pedrick 82 Congere, the largest boat in the race. This Congere, originally Australian financier Alan Bond's Drum Beat, was a replacement of the previous Congere, which took line honors in the 1989 Annapolis to Newport Race.

Class I IMS (9 starters) 1. Bully (Baltic 50) - Richard Heffering 2. Congere (Pedrick 82) - Bevin Koeppel 3. Donnybrook (Santa Cruz 70) - James Muldoon 4. Challenge America (Farr 80 Ketch) - Robert E. Turner IV 5. Guivain (Laurent Giles 55) - Robert Schyberg 6. First Light (J/44) - George Wilson 7. Pursuit (48) - Norman Dawley 8. lchiban (Holland 50) - Nance Frank 9. Matchless (J/44) - Buie Sewell	Class II IMS (8 starters) 1. High Noon (Tripp 40) - Arthur Conway 2. Avanti (Taylor 40) - Frank Schinco 3. Cinnabar (S&S 44) - Ens. John Grierson 4. Mischievous (Jon Merl 48) - Trey Fitzgibbons 5. Fun (Oyster 43) - Thomas Closs Jr. 6. Ariel (Swan 47) - James Thompson 7. Etoile (Farr 43) - Eugene Syndor Retired-Delta 7 (Evelyn 42) Allen Davies

Class III IMS (11 starters) 1. Rake Hell (J/35) - Robert O'Connor 2. Swift (Navy 44) - Ens.Pete Young 3. Wahoo (Taylor 38) - Henry Fretz 4. Lively (Navy 44) - Ens. Garron Mor ri 5. Crescendo (Farr 37) - Stephen Hiltabidle 6. Flirt (Navy 44) - Ens. Rob Glenn Retired-Bodacious (Ericson 37) - Ted Repplier Retired - Shahrazad (Island Packet 38), John Wenzel Not yet finished-Anthem (Kirkman 38), Peter Geis Not yet finished-Insight (Gulfstar 40), Herquail/Johns Syndicate Not yet finished-Strike (Beneteau 1st 42), Russ Hale	Class IV PHRF (12 starters) 1. Snow White (Tartan 41) - Ned Shuman 2. Total Eclipse (Kalik 40) - Gary & Karen Rossow 3. Caledonian (Taswell 49) - Peter Gordon 4. Three Cheers (J/35) -Siemers/Krolak Syndicate 5. Nighthawk (Peterson 45) - Wayne Fisher 6. lnvictus (C&C 40) - Berl Bernhard Retired -Terrific (NY 36), Olaf Tom-Felde Retired - Moxie (Passport 47), George Collins Retired - Bandana (Swan 47), C. F. Benson Not yet finished- Airborne (47), Edward Kane Not yet finished - Crackerjack (Cambria 40), Alan Krulisch Not yet finished - Allegra (Beneteau 1st 38), P.B. Malinoff

Class V PHRF (12 starters) 1. P.O.S.H. (C&C 35) - Eric Stoer 2. Valkyrie (J/30) - Ron Peterson 3. Sails Call (Tartan 30) - Richard Baucom Not yet finished- Jaguar (Elite 32), Eugene Horn Not yet finished- Schmaus (Allied XL42), Rolfe Glover Not yet finished- Wisp (C&C 35), Art Turowski Not yet finished- Carousel (Bristol 38.8), Louis Oswald Retired- Patricia Jane (CSY 37), Earl Linn Retired- Sea Pup (C&C 32), William Mullan Retired- Katsura (Pilot 35), M. J. Mintz Retired- Waranatoo (Olson 38), H. Van Der Woude Retired- Integrity (Invicta 38), Henry Meneely	PHRF non-spinnaker VI (3 starters) 1. Nine (Tartan Ten)- Thomas Richter 2. Tempest (Pearson 40) - Henry Pitts Retired- Katan Ann (Ericson 34) - Don Ross

1993 Annapolis-Newport Race (55 boats) Foundation
First to finish was Donnybrook (ex-Starlight Express), a Santa Cruz 70 owned by Jim Muldoon, in 64 hours and 20 minutes. Corrected time winners were Foundation (Hinkley 42) owned by Masato Fujimaki, in IMS, and Swift from the US Naval Academy, in PHRF.

CLASS 1 IMS 1. HIGH NOON (Tripp 40) - ARTHUR CONWAY 2. REINDEER (Farr 44) - E.N. SMITH 3. NOW - Allen Davies 4. J.A.R.D. LOOSE - DICK ROHMAN 5. SUNDOG - P. & K. PARKS 6. WONDER - STEPHAN VANDYCK 7. GAUCHO (Farr 42) - PETER J. GORDON 8. AURORA - Skip SHELDON 9. CONGERE - BEVIN KOEPPEL	CLASS II IMS 1. FOUNDATION (Hinckley 42) - Masato Fujimaki 2. CPESCENDO (Farr 37) - S. HILTABIDLE AYC 3. ARIEL (Swan 47) - JAMES THOMPSON 4. AVANTI - FRANK SCHINCO 5. THREE CHEERS (J/35) - SIEMERS/KROLAK 6. RAMPAGE (N/M 41) - USCGA 7. CONSTELLATION - USNA 8. ANTHEM - PETER A. GEIS 9. Malacara II - WENCESLAO BUNGE 10. STRANGE ATTRACTION - JAMES B. RAMSEY

CLASS III PHRF 1. STORMKING (Hinckley 51) - BRENTON HALSEY 2. JAGER (Swan 53) - EDGAR CATO CRYC 3. BANDANA - CHARLES BENSON 4. Patriot - PATRICK SEIDEL 5. Skimmer - JOHN MCDONALD 6. QUADRILLE - NICOLAS BROWN 7. Insurgent - USNA 8. FIRST LIGHT (J/44) - GEORGE WILSON 9. CAT'S PAW (J/44) - WILLIAM WHITE CCA 10. MOXIE III - GEORGE COLLINS 11. DONNYBROOK (SC 70)- JAMES MULDOON	CLASS IV PHRF 1. SWIFT Navy 44) - USNA 2. Lively(Navy 44) - USNA 3. Flirt (Navy 44) - USNA 4. Vigilant (Navy 44) - USNA 5. INCESSANT - PAUL KAPLAN 6. CHALLENGE - R. M. NORRIS 7. ELECTRA - ANDREW WILSON II 8. Lickety Split - Charles Harker 9. FALCON - SAM SNYDER 10. Strike - RUSSEL HALE 11. NIRVANA - M. MAHOLCHIC

CLASS V PHRF 1. OPRION (Bermuda 40) - MARK STEVENS 2. SNOW WHITE (Tartan 41) - NED SCHUMAN 3. SPIRIT - ANDRE A. LAUS 4. ALLEGRA - PERRY MOIZNOFF 5. UPBEAT - OWEN C. SMITH 6. ASBURY McCLAIN - Glenn/Williams 7. WISP - Art Turowski 8. SOUTHERLY - PHILIP P. WELSH 9. CAYENNE - ANTONIO SANPERE 10. TEMPEST - HENRY C. PITRS RET Patricia Jane - EARL H. Linn	Class VI PHRF Non-spinnaker 1. IRETSU (Benetrau 42) - TERRY S. WANNER 2. AVATAR (Le Comte 52) - S. ALAN Kew RET Bear - DAVID A. BERRY

IMS OVERALL 1. FOUNDATION - MASATO FUJIMAKI 2. CRESCENDO - S. HILTABIDLE 3. ARIEL - JAMES THOMPSON TAYC 4. AVANTI - FRANK SCHINCO 5. THREE CHEERS - Siemers /KROLAK 6. RAMPAGE - USCG ACADEMY 7. CONSTELLATION - USNA 8. HIGH NOON - CONWAY 9. ANTHEM - P & A. GEIS 10. MALACARA II - WENCESLAO BUNGE	PHRF FLEET OVERALL 1. SWIFT - NAVAL ACADEMY 2. Lively - NAVAL ACADEMY 3. OPTION - MARK STEVENS 4. Flirt - NAVAL ACADEMY 5. VIGILANT - NAVAL ACADEMY 6. STORM KING - BRENTON HALSEY 7. SNOW WHITE - NED SHUMAN 8. JAGER - EDGAR CAT'O 9. BANDANA - Charles BENSON 10. INCESSANT - PAUL KAPLAN

1995 Annapolis-Newport Race (54 boats)

By BILL WAGNER, The Capital Newspaper, Annapolis

Every Annapolis-to-Newport race produces a few winners and a few losers and this year's event was no different. Local boats who qualified as winners included Three Cheers, Javelin, Crescendo, True North and Trepidation. Javelin, a Palmer Johnson 77 owned by Chevy Chase resident and Annapolis Yacht Club member Larry Bulman, finished first in PHRF III class and first in fleet on corrected time. It was the first overall victory for Bulman, who has competed in Annapolis-to-Newport since 1963.

Bulman, who won class honors twice (1977, 1979) aboard a Morgan One-Ton, took advantage of Javelin's large sail area to make outstanding time downwind during the Atlantic Ocean portion of the race to finish in three days, 21 hours, 34 minutes and one second. Javelin, a cruiser-racer that was built in 1981, rates well for its size and thus corrected to 3:15:08:46. ``We were only the sixth boat out of the bay so I was a bit concerned at that point,'' Bulman said. ``But we did everything right in the ocean and really stretched out a lead. We had the big spinnaker up and the breeze was a bit off the water so having a 113-foot mast certainly helped.''

With three spacious staterooms, three heads and a roomy galley/dining area, Javelin probably was the most comfortable yacht in the race. "I like the boat because I can race it and cruise it and enjoy both,'' said Bulman, who bought Javelin last June from a European owner and docks it at Arnie Gay's Yard. "I think one of the reasons for the decline in offshore racing is that the pure racing boats simply aren't comfortable. That's not a problem with this boat.''

True North, a Serendipity 43 owned by Annapolis resident Mark Myers, finished second in PHRF III and fourth in class with a corrected time of 3:15:54:41. It was the first offshore race Myers has entered in the three years he's owned True North, which was built in 1979 and spent several years campaigning in the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit. "I was excited about the challenge and I'm pleasantly surprised we did so well,'' said Myers, whose only previous offshore experience came as crew for the Marion-Newport race. "I know it sounds trite, but all the credit goes to the crew. In a distance race you're very reliant on the crew so it's important to make sure you have good people with you.'' Myers was thrilled to have as a watch captain Maine native Ed White, the first person he ever sailed with. Annapolis residents Eric Smith, Shane Zwingelberg and Brad Cole were also aboard.

Crescendo, a Farr 37 owned by Arnold resident Dr. Steve Hiltabidle, won PHRF Class IV and corrected to second in fleet just seven minutes behind Javelin. Dr. Hiltabidle, a veteran of 11 Annapolis-to-Newport races, made decent time out of the Chesapeake Bay compared to most of the fleet. "We went as far east as we could and we picked up a shore breeze that kept us moving a bit while the boats in the middle of the bay were sitting still,'' said Dr. Hiltabidle, current commodore of Annapolis Yacht Club. "Once we got in the ocean we hugged the Virginia shoreline and finally got lifted up toward the rhumb line.'' An inspiring performance was turned in by Trepidation, a Peterson 34 owned by Annapolis native Tom Carrico. Trepidation, the smallest boat in the fleet and just one foot above the minimum length for entry, braved upwards of 20 knot winds in the ocean to finish second in Class V. Angus Phillips, sailing writer for the Washington Post, served as navigator for longtime friend Carrico. Another outstanding effort came from Three Cheers, a J/35 co-owned by Howard Siemers and Joe Krolak. Three Cheers finished second in IMS I and fifth in class.

Donnybrook, the Santa Cruz 70 owned by AYC member Jim Muldoon, didn't fare so well. For the second straight Annapolis-to-Newport Donnybrook was first to finish, but corrected to ninth in IMS I class and 13th in fleet.

Donnybrook had lodged a protest seeking a time reduction for its run-in with a Navy missile testing exercise. Muldoon and crew lost approximately two hours when they were ordered to motor out of a restricted area. Unfortunately the race committee ruled there was no provision for such an incident. Time allowances can only be awarded for yachts that effect a rescue or otherwise provide aid to a troubled vessel.

This year's Annapolis-to-Newport was in effect two races. Race one was an agonizing trip down the Chesapeake Bay that took Donnybrook 28 hours and Trepidation 38. Between Smith Island and the target ships the entire 50-boat fleet had to anchor for several hours to avoid being swept backwards by tide in the totally becalmed conditions. Race two was an exhilarating run up the Atlantic Ocean to Newport that saw most of the fleet flying along under spinnaker for at least 20 hours.

IMS I 1. Blue Yankee (Farr 47) - Robert Towse 2. Wonder (Tripp 47.5) - Stephen Van Dyck 3. High Noon (Tripp ILC 40) - Arthur Conway 4. Gaucho - Peter Gordon 5. Now - Allen Davies 6. Suzanne Marie - Gerald Dowling 7. Success - USNA 8. Donnybrook - James Muldoon 9. Etoile III - Eugene Snydor	IMS 2 1. Reindeer (Farr 44) - E. N. Smith 2. Three Cheers (J/35) - Howard Siemers 3. Rampage (N/M 41) - USCGA 4. Momentum - Lee Krow 5. Steamboat - USCGA RET Pandora - Gary Kilroy RET Rafinee - Arthur Edwards RET Alix - Lewis Wallner

PHRF 1 1. Javelin (PJ 77) - Lawrence Bulman 2. True North (Swan DP 43) - Mark Myers 3. Hissar (Swan 68)- Edgar Cato 4. Moxie (Mumm 36) - George Collins 5. Bang - USNA 6. Zephyr 2 (J/120)- David Shaeffer 7. Bandana - Charles Benson 8. Silent Running - Nicholas Worth 9. Nora y Cristobal - Scott Silver RET Dragon Fly - Jeffery Klein RET Vamp - Leonard Sitar	PHRF 2 1. Crescendo (Farr 37) - Stephen Hitabidle 2. Incessant (Baltic 42) - Paul Kaplan 3. Snow White (Tartan 41) - Edwin Shuman II 4. Frogleap - Edwin Muth 5. Blue Max - Paul Mraz 6. Stinger - Freitag/Slifes 7. Lickety Split - Charles Harker 8. Nirvana - Mike Maholchic 9. Jullani - Donald Rappaport RET Iretsu - Terry Wanner RET Marathon - Berl Bernhard

PHRF 3 1. Nicole (Cal 40) - T. Coleman DuPont 2. Trepidation (Peterson 34) - Tom Carrico 3. Obsession (Sabre 38) - James M. Ward 4. Dear Friend (CSY 50) - Bill Kardash 5. Wisp - Art Turowski 6. Simpatico - William Riley	7. Synchronicity - Colin Golder 8. Rainbow’s End - Bill Kirsch 9. Spirit - Bacroix/Richmond RET Touche - Robert Dickey RET Tempest - Henry Pitts

1997 Annapolis-Newport Race (45 Boats)
Forty-five boats competed in the 25^th running of the Annapolis to Newport race. The first day was a slow beat down the Chesapeake with most boats sitting off the Patuxent River for several hours. The wind finally filled in from the northwest during the evening and built to 20 knots on the nose as the boats left the Chesapeake and rounded the Chesapeake Light. The wind held for another few hours and then went light, to 5-7 knots. It didn’t seem to matter whether boats stayed inshore or went off-shore – most merged together as they got off New York City. Then the wind came from behind, helping the smaller, slower boats catch up. The first boat to finish, Trader, an Andrews 70 from Michigan, arrived in Newport on Tuesday in the early afternoon, followed by Jim Muldoon’s new Donnybrook three hours later. Trader’s elapsed time was just over three days. The last boat finished on Wednesday afternoon, making this race a slow one for the first-to-finish, but a fast race for having all the boats finished by Wednesday afternoon.

Best elapsed time – Trader, Fred Detweiler, Grosse Point, MI
IMS best corrected time – Bingo! (NY 36) , Charles Lea, Portsmouth, NH
PHRF best corrected time – Adventurer, (Gulfstar 44), Arthur Birney, Washington, DC

Division: PHRF I (12 boats) (top)

Division: PHRF II (20 boats) (top)

Division: PHRF III (12 boats) (top)

Division: PHRF IV (9 boats) (top)

Fleet: PHRF FLEET (53 boats) (top)