[L16-usa] Luders - Race Results of July 21

[Sturgis Haskins]

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND LUDERS FLEET 

Results of the Wednesday, July 21st Make-Up Race 

The Setting:  a warm  & overcast afternoon with strong evidence of fog
here and there.  A pleasant wind from the southeast.  The starting area
was a quarter mile south of the entrance of Somes Sound.  Dick Homer
manned the committee launch unassisted this day by his brother, Steve,
who was skippering a Bullseye in the SWH Fleet's annual July
single-handed races. (Both races were won by Jean Beaulieu.)

The course for Luders was a windward- leeward  with the windward marker
between Greenings Island and the NEH Fleet anchorage.  The leeward buoy
was just inside the entrance to the Sound.  Like so much in life - often
unexpected - it is sometimes the incidentals that  are more remembered
than the event itself.  In this instance, it might, perhaps, be the
close encounter  in tight quarters  with two very large yachts - not
surely an everyday event but good fodder for retelling. .

Tom Rolfes, in Paladin, led around both marks with Ondine in constant
and close pursuit. Paladin, practically alone, benefited from a long
tack toward the Manset shore on the first leg while most other Luders
followed Ondine up the shoreline of Northeast Harbor. On the downwind
leg,  spinnakers set,  the boats entered the Sound as  the huge motor
yacht, Mystique, slowly crept  up from behind and then past in close
company trying to keep in mid-channel.. ( The 163-foot yacht, built in
1989, is listed as the 51st largest yacht in America. The owner, Herb
Galen, founded Ellen Tracy Sportswear.)  

Paladin continued with a slight lead around the leeward marker.  As the
duel with Ondine continued upwind, Charles Butt's 145-foot ketch,
Rebecca, under power & hosting a number of guests, hove into stately
view.  Locked in a battle royal neither Luders seemed prepared to give
much quarter to the advancing behemoth.  Her skipper skillfully stalled
then deftly maneuvered between the two boats - remarkably without
interference.  Surely an impressive show of both deference and skill.
Never headed, Paladin continued on to a close victory over the
long-trailing Ondine - the first victory in the class for Tom Rolfes.
As this writer was fixated on Paladin's transom, he acknowledges his
ignorance of other tight battles that were likely in progress.

At Friday's SWH Fleet tea (hosted at the Tower's splendid waterfront
home), Race Committee chair Dick Homer recounted brother Steve Homer's
near miss with the Rebecca at the starting line.  Apparently, there was
a miscommunication between the captain and the ketch's helmsman (the
boat is so large that crew communicate via headphones!) and Rebecca
inadvertenly charged across the Bullseye starting area scattering that
fleet.  (Surely a great story - and likely long remembered  by The
Scattered!)  Later that evening, the yacht's captain graciously
telephoned Steve to apologize for the incident.

The Luders results are as follows: 

1st     Paladin         Tom Rolfes 
2nd     Ondine          Sturgis Haskins 
3rd     Voodoo          Rowan Fraley    
4th     Ange            Jean May 
5th     Sea Biscuit     Bill Eacho 
6th      Weetamoe    ?? 

 

DNS     Mary Jane       Bacon 
DNS   Red Hot         Schoeder 

DNS    Triad         Goriansky         

>From Eric Sandberg,who is a finish carpenter for the Williams Boat Yard:
He has previously completed  half-model commissions of International
One-Designs, Bullseyes and Mercurys.  He has recently received the
Luders blueprints from Bob Wallstrom and is anxious to built a
half-model.  We will try to have examples of his work shown at either
our next Luders meeting or at a SWH Fleet tea.  It would be nice - as
one thought - to consider presenting a Luders half-model to the MDI
Historical Society or the SWH Library.

Sandberg's e-mail:. 

Having just received the lines to the L-16, I haven't made a model yet.
It is my intention to make a stock model at 3/4" = 1'. this would yield
a model about 19" long. 

The models I make are hand carved after a series of lifts are glued
together. I use pine and mahogany as materials. Sometimes I use teak for
trim. My stock models are varnished. I mount the models on varnished
backboards or mahogany, oak, cherry, or painted poplar. Teak is also
available, but it costs more. I also provide a brass plaque. I project
the cost of a stock model to be $390.00. 

I also welcome commissions for custom models, i.e., different sizes,
painted models and deck/house work. Prices for these I will quote on an
individual basis. 

If you would like I would be very happy to show examples of work I have
done at one of your meetings. 
Thanks again for your inquiry: 
Eric Sandberg 
Tel:244-5752 
direct e-mail to cesandberg at downeast.net 


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