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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES ... ONE MORE TIME<br />
Here is our final installment of £-stories. Thanks to everyone who contributed!<br />
Ltl'1 At an Eastern Championship, approaching the leeward mark, I encountered Gardner Cox approaching on<br />
the other jibe about five boat lengths from the mark. Gardner was on the inside, but it was going to be a close<br />
call for room. In a calm and characteristically gentlemanly tone, he inquired: "Say Irv, how much of an overlap<br />
would you say I have?"<br />
IRV SPEAR<br />
Ltl'1 Chris Craig, newest fleet member at the White<br />
Lake Yacht Club, made his debut sans boat. He was driving<br />
over from FHnt, Ml, on a Friday night when he<br />
realized that his boat was attempting to pass him on the<br />
shoulder. Tn an effort to save his new Buick, he sped up.<br />
The boat continued into the ditch where it came to rest,<br />
off the trailer, but still intact. Alone after dark, Craig<br />
made an executive decision to leave the boat and return<br />
with help the next day. Unfortunately, the city of<br />
Saginaw got there first and is now the proud (temporary?)<br />
owner of a late-model E-scow Qohnson). Chris is<br />
in the market for a reasonably priced used E ...<br />
SARAH McMURRAY<br />
Ltl'1 One memorable story involved Lon<br />
Schoor, more recently an A-boat performer<br />
but in the late seventies the leading E-skipper<br />
from Mendota with a modest knack for<br />
humorous behavior. The one that will live<br />
in history is Lon approaching the pin<br />
which was attached to unweighted and<br />
longer than desirable underwater tackle.<br />
Lon, when confronted by the pin making a<br />
speedy approach to his leeward quarter,<br />
hesitated not a moment. He whipped out<br />
his trusty bowie knife, sharpened to a fine<br />
edge for repelling boarding parties, and cut<br />
the pin's umbilical cord. This act of destruction<br />
earned Lon a DSQ on the grounds he<br />
deprived late starters of where to go.<br />
SAM MERRICK<br />
T HE REPOR T ER<br />
36<br />
Ltl'1 Beyond any doubt, question or dispute<br />
whatsoever is that the single best Escow<br />
party of eternity was Joe Federico's<br />
at the Eastern about ten years ago.<br />
Absolutely the stuff of legend. I remember<br />
walking up to his house with Captain<br />
Dick Wight, Harriet (then Barton) and<br />
Betsy (then Lucas), hearing "Life During<br />
Wartime" by the Talking Heads blaring so<br />
loudly that, curious, I put my hand on<br />
the comer of the house and actually felt<br />
the entire structure vibrate from the bass.<br />
I'm not making this up. I also remember<br />
Dick saying to me, "We'd better leave.<br />
We'd better not even go in there; we're<br />
way too old for this." He was right, of<br />
course, but we managed to survive the<br />
event with our marital vows intact, having<br />
broken only the Ninth<br />
Commandment, but no others.<br />
J AY DARLING<br />
Ltl'1 While indulging in recall, I'll forever remember<br />
a start at a National "E" Regatta at Little Egg.<br />
Crossing the Line at the gun I found the nose of our<br />
"E" right on the transom of I-1 with Buddy himself<br />
at the helm, and it was obvious he was about to<br />
point higher and put us in an early tank. Buddy<br />
looked back, grinned as he bore off giving us clear<br />
air and yelled, "You owe me a martini!" After the<br />
race he told us that it had taken him about an hour<br />
to make back the ground he had given away.<br />
Friendship is a wonderful thing- espedally on the<br />
race coune.<br />
TED BRENNAN
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