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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>ANCIENT HISTORY - Adding to the
Luders Patina</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>The decades old results of former races may
not be seem relavant or of immediate interest to many Luders sailors.
Still, a knowledge of the interesting history of the class does - in
its way - add to the richness of the larger Luders 'package.' The Bar
Harbor fleet disbanded many years ago. It was always a small one and paled,
considerably, by the more glitterly one elsewhere on Mount Desert Island.
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Over the decades - since the founding of
the short-lived Mount Desert Island Racing Association, at Bar Harbor, in
1900 - that resort has endured a number of conspicuous up and downs.
Nothing reflected this more than that resort's succesive yacht clubs and racing
fleets. In 1903 the Association raced a dozen 50-foot long Herreshoff Bar
Harbor 31-footers (lwl). Today, there is no one-design racing there.
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>The relatively brief interlude of Luders
racing exampled, too, perhaps the last fling of Bar Harbor's old guard.
Milliken, Strawbridge, Eno and Colket represented the remaining
aristrocracy Shortly, the gates were opened and the BH YC faced a new
epoch as motels replaced mansions. Even a few Luders could not be
sustained. </FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yesterday this writer copied the following
from a vintage Bar Harbor Yacht Club trophy. It is no longer in
competition. This is conjecture, but the cup was likely used as a July or
August series cup.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><U><FONT face=Arial size=2>EDWARD BROWNING MEMORIAL
CUP</FONT></U></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Inscriptions begin in 1925. It appears
that winners up until 1939 raced in the 27-foot
Herreshoff S-class. At least three of these early winners were members of
prominent Chicago families; Miss Mildred McCormick (who won in Periwinkle) in
1931, Edward McC. Blair, who skippered Three Brothers to victory in 1931, 1933
and 1936 and his brother, Bowen Blair, who also won in 1937 in his Flying
Cloud. The two Blair brothers, now in their 90s, are both alive. The
former still summers on Mount Desert Island.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Periwrinkle, long Jacataqua, has been owned by the
Gamble family, of Sorrento, since about 1935. In 1926 the Club presented a
Captain's Cup for the S-class.- to be raced annually by the
profession captains (who sat aft in the cockpit and usually tended
mainsheet.) . The names of 14 different men are inscribled on the
cup. Curiously, no winner's are listed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the Browning Cup there are no inscriptions from
1938 until 1947. WW II saw the demise of the S-class and the arrival of Luders
16s. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Luders inscriptions are as follows: (I have
added sail numbers.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1947 Northwind, Minot K. Milliken (BH
#51)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1948 Anemone, Charles C.G. Chaplin (BH
#54)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1949 ditto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1950 ditto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1951 Salty, Amos Eno (BH #56)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1952 The P.S., William J. Strawbridge, Jr.(BH
#52)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1953 ditto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1954 Northwind, Minot K. Milliken</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1955 ditto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1956 ditto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1957 Tries, Tristram C. Colket, Jr.(NEH
#22)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In 1958 the cup began to bear other names
indicating that it might have been recycled into a handicap class. The last
winner, in 1972, was Colket in Tries. This was the single Luders winner in
the 3rd phase of the cup.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Northeast Harbor Luders nos. ran from 1 up to
28. Bar Harbor (wishing to avoid confusion with NEH, assigned club numbers
51 thru 56). One Bar Harbor Luders (Anemone) was later sold to NEH
and assumed #28 there. It was been in distant waters for many years and is
expected to return to MDI this summer and compete with the Southwest Harbor
Fleet Luders.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two of these Luders remain in Bar Harbor. Tries,
was been owned by Colket since before 1954 and is still kept off his estate on
Cromwell Cove. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>By curious happenstance, - not without irony
perhaps - Bar Harbor is known less today for its Luders racing than
the fine restoration work by the Elks Yard there on aging
Luders.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A tiny bit of Luders history to mull.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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