[L16-usa] Re: Sunrise

[William F. Simpson]

Dear Sturge,

Well as Larry Weeks has shown us, the Verve Cup and therefore, the 
2005 L-16 Internationals are already set apparently --> Friday, 
August 12th through Sunday, August 14th.

You know, this is surprisingly similar to correspondence I've seen in 
the fleet's archives which I maintain.  One of the reasons that the 
Maine fleet did not join the L-16 Organization at the beginning was 
that they did not want to interrupt their season to come somewhere 
like Chicago in the middle of the summer.  Maine hosted the first 
Nationals, but then did not again participate until last year.  I'm 
sorry this pattern seems to be continuing.  We will have to try and 
see if the next time it's in Chicago we could get club resources 
(Race Committee, boats, judges, etc.) for June or September.

Pups sound familiar.  I have copy of the History of CYC at home, I'll 
have to look it up.

Marshall Field indeed - it was he who gave a million dollars in 1894 
to keep a lot of the specimens and artifacts from the Worlds 
Columbian Exposition permanently in Chicago.  This Field Columbian 
Museum then got a new permanent building 20 years later when Field 
died and left about 8 million dollars of his fortune for that 
purpose!  We then became The Field Museum of Natural History.

Best,
Bill





>Lovely photos. Thanks.
>
>As mentioned, August is our very busiest month with both regular 
>series racing and three regattas.  I can't imagine anyone leaving 
>during that interval. July would be equally tight as those two 
>months pretty much comprise our "season."  We race now in June and 
>September, but at considerably reduced numbers. Most of our members 
>come here summers and any diversion from that would disrupt their 
>vacation time.
>
>As the MDI fleet champion I could not conceive of leaving then and 
>Tom Rolfes, who represented us in New Orleans earlier this year has 
>already said that it would be unlikely for him to go to Chicago in 
>that interval.  (Plus he also ocean races during those months.)
>
>Sorry to make things so inconvenient.
>
>Have you heard of a CYC class called the Pups?  They raced at the 
>club prior to 1912.  That year new additions were built for  Dark 
>Harbor, Maine  and were known as Dark Harbor 12-footers.  Many are 
>still around.  A very pretty 20-foot gaff sloop.  There was also a 
>1930s  marconi-rigged incarnation on Long Island Sound still later. 
>Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield, of Boston, was the designer.  I was 
>curious if any of the boats still existed. The last two fleets were 
>started by Marshal Field, who I think had some Chicago connection.

-- 
William F. Simpson
Collections Manager, Fossil Vertebrates
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago, Illinois  USA  60605
Phone: (312) 665-7628
Fax:   (312) 665-7641  
Email: simpson at fmnh.org
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