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The Corinthian Yacht Club marks its 100th anniversary

Founded in 1892, the sailing club’s members originally included the cream of Philadelphia society, but the CYC is now becoming a family fun spot. The ongoing changes include a membership drive and over $2 million worth of upgrades to the facilities and grounds.

Past and Present

Initially, the CYC property included what is now Governor Printz Park. CYC donated the land to Essington to create the public park. It was a fitting gesture, considering Governor Printz’ estate and the parliament building of New Sweden once stood on the clubhouse grounds.

The CYC originally owned property opposite its Second Street entrance, but sold the land to a developer to raise funds in the 1950s. The property to the south that is now the West End Yacht Club was also once CYC-owned.

The main CYC building served as a tavern and inn before it was converted to a clubhouse for yachtsmen. The club’s first commodore – a position that equates to chairman of the board – was Edward R. Coleman (an Andrew Carnegie business partner), who was elected by his peers in 1892.

The current holder of the two-year title is Commodore Jack Gregg, who has been preceded by 48 other CYC commodores, all of whom can be seen in a one-room display of their portraits.

The break from Philadelphia

The Greek word corinthian refers to person who lives in the lap of luxury. In nautical terms, a corinthian is an amateur yachtsman – a yacht owner who prefers to sail his own boat, as opposed to hiring a captain. Original CYC members represented both definitions of the word.

The CYC was founded by members of the Quaker City Yacht Club. The Philadelphia-based club was “a bit too frisky” for the refined gentlemen that would become CYC charter members, according to former commodore and Corinthian Historical Foundation President Norm Robinson.

“Traditionally, yachtsmen are heavy drinkers – history records that they like their rum,” Robinson notes.

The membership roles of the CYC once included Philadelphia’s industrial giants — familiar names such as Wanamaker, Thayer, Lippincott, du Pont, Drexel, Longstreth, Pew, and Scott.

The annual July Fourth party and fireworks display was a renowned CYC event in the early days of the exclusive club. Well-heeled members traveling from the city often arrived by rail, and routinely sipped mint juleps in the spring and summer and hot apple toddies in the fall.

History on display

Many of the historical treasures that are now on display inside the clubhouse have been donated by CYC members.

The non-profit Corinthian Historical Foundation was founded in 1982 with the mission to “collect, care for and maintain the artifacts, and make them available to the public,” according to Robinson.

Currently, tours are given by appointment only, but the goal is to set up regular hours for visitors to view over 100 pieces of maritime art. The artifacts include historic photos, nautical paintings, yacht models, a collection of chromolithographic prints, and one of the largest custom-made wooden half-model collections in existence.

Scale half-models were originally made by ship designers to market their vessels to potential buyers. The board-mounted hull prototypes emphasized innovative underwater keel designs, and featured intricate planking along the length of the vessel. The details could even include miniature cannon placements on military models.

Half-models on display at CYC vary from one foot in length to three 5-foot-long nineteenth-century US Navy gunships.

Two naval cannons (one full-size, one less than three-feet-long) mounted on deck carriages are on display, as is a ship’s clock.

A century-old painting of the Philadelphia-built frigate South Carolina – one of the original six sailing vessels that made up the fledgling American Navy – hangs above the hearth in the new pub room.

A framed CYC burgee hangs on the main dining room wall. The CYC burgee – the triangular flag that flies from atop the main mast to identify an owner’s club affiliation – features a horizontal red cross on a white background, with a 13-star ring encircling an anchor on a blue field in the upper left quadrant of the cross.

A proud tradition

CYC is home to both Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania sailing teams.

CYC members have captained and crewed sailboats in America’s Cup and other international races, including cup-winners Courageous and Freedom.

Among the many racing trophies and uniquely-shaped cups on display at CYC is the Eddystone Trophy (appropriately lighthouse-shaped) and the impressive Alexander Van Rensselaer Cup – a 16-inch silver cup topped with a wave, a mermaid, and a helmsman’s wheel – that was bestowed on its namesake to honor the former commodore.

“We are a recognized club up and down the east coast, and we’ve had members participate in the America’s Cup and offshore races. We’ve had club members in the Olympics and boats that went to the Arctic Circle. You wouldn’t think that a club on an inland waterway would have reached so far in the boating world,” says Gregg.

Looking Forward

Today’s yachts range in size from 35- to 55-feet in length, while the sail- and steam-driven yachts of CYC founders were up to 155 feet long. The inlet just north of the clubhouse could once accommodate several 100-footers docked in a row during the Roaring Twenties, but the inlet has now filled in with silt and is not navigable at low tide.

The extension of the Philadelphia airport’s runway and dredging of the shipping channel less than a mile distant have both contributed to the shifting currents. Dredging the inlet to restore it to its former grandeur is a planned upgrade, but the project is currently mired in governmental red tape.

The removal of a hurricane-ravaged pier on the north side of the inlet has also been identified as a long-term goal. The overgrown concrete pier will be replaced by a modern pier with boat lifts and a launch ramp.

Major renovations started two years ago with the enclosure of an open-air porch to create waterfront dining in air-conditioned comfort. The porch had started to sag and required repair. Faced with a capital expense anyway, the CYC board opted to expand the project and refurbish the entire first floor of the building.

Other recent renovations include a new locker room facility in the clubhouse basement; adding a new bar area to the west end of the building; a $50,000 swimming pool makeover (swimming in the river is only done on an “inadvertent” basis by boaters, Gregg notes); a new driveway loop and brick front walkway, and the creation of a ‘green’ parking area to augment the existing paved lot.

The next major undertaking will be the restoration of the 100-year-old bulkhead that prevents erosion of the river embankment.

“Although we have great traditions and history, we are now focusing on our future as a viable and thriving club,” says Gregg.

Looking for members

“Growing our membership is a primary need,” Robinson notes.

Members can own a sailboat, a motor boat, or no boat at all.

“It’s for anyone who likes the water and the marine environment,” Gregg suggests.

CYC membership peaked in 1931, and currently stands at about 200 resident members, plus over 100 non-resident members who live more than 50 miles away.

“It’s always been a low-key kind of club, but I think we’re getting more into the mainstream now,” states Gregg. “We encourage families to join, because it’s kind of like an oasis here.”

Lunch and dinner are available to members, Wednesday through Sunday.

In addition to Wednesday evening sailboat races during the spring and summer, the club offers its members trap shooting every Sunday morning from October to April. The shooters, often in competition with other clubs in junior, women, and men’s categories, take up position at a row of stands and aim at clay pigeons launched over the river.

Monthly lectures are also offered during the winter. Topics are maritime-related, such as a recent presentation made by a CYC member who spent his first 13 years of retirement sailing around the world with this wife.

“There was a stigma about the CYC that it was a pretty snooty group – big Philadelphia names that didn’t want to socialize with anybody else,” Robinson recalls. “But now, the members here are just everyday guys.”

Membership fees include $1,500 per year as annual dues and a one-time initiation fee of $3,000. All equity members are part owner of the CYC. New members must be referred by a current member. Membership inquiries can be directed to Seigfried Boettjer at 610-644-8423.

Party, party, party …

An outdoor tent between the clubhouse and main pier hosts dinner and drinks for Wednesday evening race participants and spectators.

Groups as small as 25 (non-members included) can reserve the tent for outdoor events. Interested parties should call for details during renovations.

The CYC can seat 125-150 for sit-down banquets and 150-200 indoors for cocktail receptions. Catered wedding receptions are popular events, so weekend dates should be booked one year in advance. For more information, contact manager Terry Cullinan at 610-521-4705; by fax at 610-521-6037; or write to 300 W. Second Street, Essington, PA 19029.

“There’s nothing more beautiful than on a clear night to see the sun set down the river,” Robinson says of CYC ambience.

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139 Years and Still Sailing

By Vicky Samselski Rector May 9, 2011 -->

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Cape May Magazine . The dates have been updated to reflect the current publication. Photographs courtesy of Judy Lord, and postcards courtesy Don Pocher, both members of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Cape May.

There was no Harbor. There was no Canal. The paint color on your cottage, store or bordello was entirely your own business. At least no one could argue that it wasn’t “authentic.” Few quibbled over morals, either. Steamships brought gamblers, families, the wealthy and the devout bound for the religious retreats at Cape May Point. All were dumped pell-mell right on the sands at Sunset Beach. South Cape May was dry and populated. East Cape May was under water. The country was in a recession that began with a sharp drop in 1873 and then lazily spread out all over the rest of the decade, creating havoc elsewhere in the land. But far from all that madness, the boathouses of would-be yachtsman from Philadelphia lined cool, breezy Madison Avenue overlooking the Cape May Sound, at least according to the club’s website.

The Cape May Yacht Club, circa 1907.

The Corinthian Yacht Club of Cape May started in 1872, the same year as its predecessor in London, the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club. The Cape May launch came about a year after the city’s large hotels put up the money to begin the Cape May Cup and a year before the recession hit. The club’s roots were in Philadelphia. Once a powerful maritime presence, Philly has had its share of ups and downs. It’s also had its share of Corinthians: wealthy sportsmen like Wanamaker and Drexel who embraced the Olympic spirit of amateur competition, then refocused it as an excuse to keep boisterous and low-brow professional sailors out of their clubs.

The Corinthian Movement swept through Britain and the States like a very affluent fever. According to the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club’s own archives, “The members of the new club in 1872 were pleased to be known as ‘Corinthians,’ emphasizing their intention to helm their own boats, although paid hands were still allowed. The term was greatly used in the sporting world of those days and perhaps those who had received a classical education connected it with the Isthmian Games held at Corinth in honour of Poseidon and found it singularly appropriate for yachtsmen.”

Club House of the Corinthian Yacht Club, circa 1918

Can’t you just hear those early Corinthians now? “Isthmian? Steer it myself? Right you are. Now how do you steer this thing?”

Before then, wealthy yacht owners enlisted the help of professional captains to help them win races or nip up to the Great Egg. Few of them could actually steer their own crafts before the movement began. Fascinatingly, fewer still checked their history. The Isthmian games were never about Poseidon (it was a funeral rite for Melicertes). The games occurred about as far inland as you can get on a land bridge behind the city of Corinth with plenty of room for nautical games like chariot racing and poetry competitions. Ahh, Corinth. How little we knew ye.

But history is a wonderful and funny thing. Rich boys go to school, get a vague idea about true Olympic spirit and truces between nations and garlands of celery in their hair (yep celery) and grow up to buy beautifully “yar” little sea crafts they didn’t want to share with stinky sailors. End result, you had to have learned sailing as an amateur to make it into their cup races and clubs – preferably a rich, well-connected and well-behaved amateur. Although later they made special exemptions for wealthy men who’d learned in the Navy. It wasn’t long before these men brought the notion of elegant sportsmanship with them to Cape May, where it flourished.

Laser race in the harbor

To this day, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia boasts that it is one of the oldest in the country dating from the mixture of older “Corinthians” that came together in 1892. Older still, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Cape May has held its charter since 1872, in one way or another. Before then, one could enjoy the excitement of a boat race in other ways: charter a small sailboat called the Harriet Thomas for daytrippers. Or if you could afford a yacht of your own and find a local Cape May pilot to steer it, the thrills of the shoals and canyons could be yours by the week. Then there was the early Cape May Cup: starting from the Iron Pier at the end of Decatur Street and looping around Five Fathom Light which, at that time, was still a ship. Now, sadly, it’s just a large buoy about 14.7 miles off the coast of Cape May.

After the amateurs took over the racing scene, one of the Philadelphia Corinthian Clubs won several Cape May Cups. So did their rival the New York Yacht Club. The highlight of the Cup came in 1903, when the Prince of Wales himself won the race on his yacht, the Britannia . The future of the elegant yacht club seemed secure, and when Cape May Harbor was created beginning in 1903, it only made sense that the new headquarters for all things boaty be there.

What of the local sailors and their sailing yachts? Actually, there were a few. They started the Cape May Yacht Club in 1872 and moored at Schellenger’s Landing. Then they built a new clubhouse on what was then Cape Island Creek. We now know it as the “Boathouse Row” between Washington and Lafayette streets just off the harbor. Although these local sailors may not have been ready to rub elbows with His Majesty, their cozy little clubhouse became one of the hottest tickets in town. There they were in 1907, looking over what was going to be the most exciting public works project in history! A harbor for Cape May! A channel to the Atlantic Ocean! New dry land (provided by the dredge spoils of the channel) from Schellenger’s Landing to Madison Avenue! Not only was Cape May getting a fancy, deep new harbor – the island was growing bigger in the process! What could go wrong?

The enthusiasm for the Yacht Palace must have paled in the face of the Great War. After the fighting ended, the building became a boys’ camp. (Ironically, the Navy took it back again at the beginning World War II, this time making it a permanent part of the Coast Guard Base. What’s left of it is now used to house flammable materials, according to the Corinthian website. Imagine for just a moment what it was built to be, and realize it’s now an expendable shack.)

Offshore fleet

World War II ended and the last time anyone had heard of the Corinthian Yacht Club – even in passing – had been in the early ‘40s. “They disappeared,” says Jack Sayre, one of the longest running members of the current Corinthian Yacht Club. Kirby Thompkins tried to bring the old club back with the Peter Shields as headquarters, but after three years even that ended. Had too much time passed? Had the world moved on too much?

Maybe only in part. “In 1948, a group of 15 college students got together and called ourselves the Harbor Sailing Club,” says Jack Sayre.

“We started out across the harbor [off Ocean Drive]. Then the city gave us some land at the end of the street [at Buffalo and Delaware avenues]. Our first ramp was two telephone poles. We sailed a mixed bag of sailboats – whatever we could get.” The determined crew got together to clear out the underbrush and trash on the waterfront – each bringing his own equipment, spending his own money, and working like dogs. They attracted some attention leveraging it into fund-raisers, balls, fashion shows, and a lot of respect. Over the next few years, they bought new boats, and constructed a bulkhead of $50 concrete blocks (with members’ names on them) big enough to be a dance floor in a pinch.

The sailing world took note. “Well, some people from the newspapers came and took our pictures,” says Jack. “Some of the original members of the old Corinthian Yacht Club saw those pictures and came to us. They said, ‘We have a name, we have some money in the bank, and we have a liquor license.’ The only thing they asked was that we use their name. The old Corinthian clubs have a kind of affiliation with each other – a kind of informal understanding. They extend privileges to each other.” The kids just wanted to sail, and now they not only had the prestige of one of the oldest names in sailing, they had the ability to build a clubhouse of their own, make some money and do it up right. So in 1959, the plucky little Harbor Sailing Club became the newest member of the Corinthian athletic family.

The Corinthian Yacht Club name finally found the sailors it needed to flourish. In the last 50 years, the Corinthian has grown bigger and the clubhouse lovelier, true enough. But more importantly, the Corinthian sailors are finally doing what those elegantly muddled sportsmen originally intended: bringing the pure spirit of competition and good sportsmanship to the beautiful science of sailing.

“We’re 760 members strong and financially sound,” says Jack Sayre with notable pride. “We have an active J24 fleet, an active 420 fleet, and active Laser and Sunfish fleets. And we have an Optimist fleet – that’s a small boat for the little guys. We offer sailing lessons to the little ones every summer. Parents don’t have to be a member. That doesn’t matter if the children are interested.” They have adult sailing classes, too, so it’s officially never too late to learn. They host regattas, kids’ races and fundraisers for other local charities in their clubhouse overlooking the harbor.

The Corinthian Yacht Club today.

Now, 139 years later there is a Harbor, there is a Canal. The paint color on your cottage, store or bordello is everybody’s business and subject to Historic Preservation Commission approvals. Members of the Cape May Corinthian Yacht Club can sit on the club’s veranda or look out the large picture window of the new second story and see members’ sailboats bobbing in the harbor among the sleek, rich yachts that tie up elsewhere, the Coast Guard cutters, the whale and dolphin watchers, kayakers, commercial fishing trawlers. They all ply the same waters. They all vie for the same sea space – forced democracy in the day of a still members-only sailing club.

As for the clubhouse itself, well, I’m sorry to say there’s no turret. Hey, what do you expect? It was built entirely by amateurs.

Visit the Corinthian Yacht Club of Cape May online at www.cyccm.com .

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Founded in 1892, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia is one of the oldest continuously operating yacht clubs in America. It is located on eleven acres of waterfront land beside the Delaware River and just south of Philadelphia. Its location, at the south end of Tinicum Island, provides excellent one design racing conditions and lends itself to being the premiere small boat sailing venue for the entire Philadelphia region. Its sailors have won regional, national, international and Olympic competitions, have crewed in defense of the America’s Cup, and have won major ocean races and cruised globally. The club burgee is recognized and respected throughout the yachting world.

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On January 12, 1892 a group of 13 men, former members of The Philadelphia Yacht Club which had been taken over a few years earlier by The Quaker City Yacht Club, held a meeting at the Bullitt Building in Philadelphia. They felt dissatisfied with the state of affairs at The Quaker City Yacht Club as a result of schisms developing among the members and occasioned by undignified acts by some members. There also developed and incompatibility between people of different social and professional standing. During this period a change in the size of the yachts was taking place with larger seagoing yachts overtaking the then prevalent smaller 20′ to 40′ vessels. This meeting concluded with a resolution recommending the advisability of breaking away from The Quaker City Yacht Club and forming a new club. A month later, in February 1892, a charter was approved and a certificate of incorporation was issued for the newly formed Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia. (CYCOP). Among the thirty signatures that were placed on the CYCOP Application for the certificate of incorporation were names that are familiar to us today. They are: Alexander Van Rensselaer; Anthony J. Drexel, Jr.; Edward R. Coleman; and Addison F. Bancroft. Ned Coleman, who owned the largest schooner Norna, was elected Commodore, Ogden D. Wilkinson as Vice-Commodore, and W. Barklie Henry, who stood number one on the roster, Rear-Commodore. Their photographs are among those with the past Commodores on display in the present clubhouse.

As soon as the certificate of incorporation was granted, the organizers resigned from The Quaker City Yacht Club. So many others followed that eventually sixty resigned during the next few months to join the newly formed club.

As time went on, other distinguished Philadelphia names became associated with the Corinthian Yacht Club. With the establishment of the new club came the necessity to find an appropriate headquarters and/or clubhouse. A property down river in Essington with a wharf and protected harbor was found and subsequently was leased for $500 per year with the privilege of purchase. The house on the property was an old hotel with 14 rooms on 12 acres of ground. The original building was built in the late 1700’s by John Shreve and was used as a taproom. In December 1893 The Corinthian Yacht Club exercised its right to purchase the property and the price paid was $9,000.

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With four races down and two to go Australia’s match racing legend Peter Gilmour sailing JPN56 YRed continues to hold a narrow lead at the Kinsale Dragon Gold Cup 2024 supported by Astra Construction Ltd. Race four got underway after an initial general recall and a line reset in glorious sun and a squally north westerly that ranged from the mid-teens to the mid-twenties. It was a cracker of a race with the results only decided right on the line.

Peter Gilmour took an early lead but was then constantly pressed by Portugal’s Pedro Rebelo de Andrade in POR89 First Things First, Belgium’s Xavier Vanneste in BEL82 Herbie, Britain’s Andy Beadsworth sailing TUR56 Provezza, and defending Gold Cup Champion Lawrie Smith in GBR815 Alfie. As the boats approached the finish line Gilmour looked good, but the day still had surprises in store, as Andy Beadsworth’s tactician Simon Fry explains:

“We had a very good start at the starboard end with Gilly [Peter Gilmour] and Lawrie [Smith]. The Aussies [Grant Alderson] made gains out to the hard right and a couple of people made gains out to the left. Gilly went to the top left and we kind of played the middled and rounded the top mark fourth. Luckily, we were on the inside, it favoured the gybe set so we got the gybe in. Then us and Gilly got away a little bit, but Xavier [Vanneste] was on our hip. If I’m honest we could have done with sailing a little bit lower and attacking Pedro [Rebelo de Andrade], but Xavier was thinking he would attack us. So Gilly escaped to about a 60m lead.

“We had a good second beat, closed in on Gilly, we both gybed and we beat him to the gybe back. We decided right gate, he went left. Coming away from the bottom mark, it was a small lefty, so we were straight back onto port and rotated inside Gilly. It became clear Gilly was a little bit exposed and we were worried about Pedro and the Aussies. Luckily Gilly dragged it back into the middle, because I think he was worried about Pedro, so it became a little bit of a shepherding job. Approaching the line a right came in and we were lucky enough to be on the right layline under Gilly and it was thanks very much and have a Guiness!” – Simon Fry, TUR12 Provezza.

As they came across the finish line Beadsworth narrowly pipped Gilmour for race victory with Alderson third, Andrade fourth, Vanneste fifth and Smith sixth.

In the overall standings Peter Gilmour has increased his lead over Lawrie Smith to six points. Today’s race win jumps Andy Beadsworth up into third, but tied on points with Michael Zankel who drops from third to fourth, while Pedro Andrade remains fifth.

In the Corinthian Division Spain’s newest Dragon team, ESP9 helmed by Javier Chacartegui, had a superb day to lead the Corinthians home and take eleventh overall. Jono Brown’s GBR753 Fit Chick was second with Dublin’s Neil Hegarty aboard IRL225 Phantom third.

After racing ESP9 crew member Leonardo Armas talked about his first Gold Cup experience – “We did it, we had a good race. A little bit windy, but we had a lot of fun. It’s our first Gold Cup and our first regatta in the Dragon Class. It was so hard because the wind was so strong, but I think we are improving a lot. We are trying to learn as much as possible, and we are sure that in the next regatta we will do it much better than this one. We’re looking forward to taking part in the Palma winter series, and our next big target is the Vilamoura Worlds next year.”

Also taking part in his first Gold Cup is Grant Alderson “This is my first Gold Cup. I’ve done a couple of local regattas at home, but nothing overseas. Today was interesting, we were able to just get off the line cleanly, play the shifts, play the compass and were able to be in the top bunch the whole way round the race.” His crew Emma Shand added, “We got lucky in some of the shifts. What’s wonderful about the Dragons is that the places change quite often within the fleet and that’s what keeps it interesting for the fleet and spectators, but we were really pleased with the result today.”

The Corinthian racing was somewhat marred by two of the teams being caught up in an incident at the first mark. Cameron Good’s IRL211 Little Fella and Colm Dunne’s IRL181 Ghost were on the starboard layline when another boat attempted but failed to force its way in on port. Dunne had no option but to take avoiding action and, in the process, caught Good’s backstay, bringing down the rig and leaving the two boats entangled. Both boats protested and requested redress, and each was given 10 points.

In the overall Corinthian standings Cameron Good has now moved into the lead ahead of Jono Brown with overnight leader James Matthews dropping down into third. Fortunately Good was well on the way to replacing his rig by the end of the day so he hopes to be back on the race course tomorrow.

One of the highlights of the Dragon Gold Cup is the Nations Cup team competition. After the first race the three top scoring boats from each nation are selected to represent their country. With four races completed the British Team of GBR402 Meteor (Peter Cooke), GBR815 Alfie (Lawrie Smith) and GBR610 Rackham (Mark Dicker) currently lead the Nations Cup by just nine points from Germany’s GER62 Desert Holly (Stephan Link), POR90 Easy (Michael Zankel) and GER1075 Grace (Hannes Hollander). In third place are the Netherlands team comprising NED309 Furie (Guus de Groot), NED393 Cobweb (Richard Blickman) and NED352 Hestia (Frank Van Beuningen).

There are a number of beautiful Classic Dragons racing this week, including the famous GBR192 Bluebottle, which was raced by the late Duke of Edinburgh. But perhaps the most interesting Classic Dragon on the water here in Kinsale is IRL45 Titan, which was built in 1969 by Borresens as DK450. Exactly fifty years ago this year she won the Dragon Gold Cup in Le Harve in the hands of legendary Dragon sailor Nick Truman. Gerry Owens brought her to Ireland in 1975, racing her regularly both at home and abroad for half a century, including winning the 1983 Irish National Championship. She underwent a partial refit in 2012 and was then purchased by her current owner Ben Cooke in August 2020 who undertook a major restoration, relaunching her in 2021. Sadly, Nick Truman passed away earlier this year, but we are certain that he would be proud to see Titan racing again in a Gold Cup half a century after his victory.

The conditions this week have been pretty extreme for a classic, but asked about how Titan’s regatta is going Ben said, “She’s staying mainly in one piece. We were pretty much last round the first mark today because we went the wrong way, and we got back up to the late 30s, so we count that as a success. Nothing broke, although it was pretty much on the limit for us, as we start to run out of boat stiffness at around 25 knots and she just bends, so the pumps get a workout. Owning a boat like Titan is a real honour and I like to think that her previous owners would be delighted to see her still competing on the international circuit.”

Two races remain to be sailed in the six-race series which concludes on Friday 13 September and with just 14 points separating the top five boats in this no discard series it’s still all to play for. The forecast for the penultimate day is for more potentially blustery north westerlies and sunshine, so the race committee has announced its intention to start race five at noon.

PROVISIONAL OVERALL TOP FIVE AFTER FOUR RACES

1st – JPN56 – Yred – Peter Gilmour – 7, 1, 4, 2 = 14 2nd – GBR815 – Alfie – Lawrie Smith – 4, 8, 2, 6 = 20 3rd – TUR12 – Provezza – Andy Beadsworth – 6, 13, 7, 1 = 27 4th – POR90 – Easy – Michael Zankel – 13, 3, 3, 8 = 27 5th – POR89 – First Things First – Pedro Rebelo de Andrade – 2, 21, 1, 4 – 28

PROVISIONAL CORINTHIAN TOP FIVE AFTER FOUR RACES

1st – IRL211 – Little Fella – Cameron Good – 20, 17, 18, 10(RDG) = 65 2nd – GBR753 – Fit Chick – Jono Brown – 37, 10, 11, 14 = 72 3rd – IRL219 – TBD – James Matthews – 26, 16, 5, 26 = 76 4th – NED309 – Furie – Guus de Groot – 10, 25, 25, 18 = 79 5th – GER1075 – Grace – Hannes Hollaender – 26, 9, 25, 29 = 89

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