1975 FSS Yearbook
📄 Download PDFFRIENDSHIP SLOOPS IN FIBERGLASS Jarvis Newman Builder Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679 (207) 244-3860 Completion — Tom Morris Sothwest Harbor, Maine 04679 (207) 244-3213 2S> PEMAQUID 25’x21’x8’8″x4′ Sail Area 432 Displacement 7000 Dedication Hulls Available 25′ — $4500. 31′ — $6800. 31′ DICTATOR 31’x26’xll’x5′ Sail Area 761 Displacement 17,500 Arthur K. Watson Bom, Summit, New Jersey, April 23, 1919 Died, New Canaan, Connecticut, July 26, 1974 When “Dick” Watson’s lovely yacht Anjacaa failed to appear for the 1974 homecoming to Friendship, her absence from the harbor was noticed by all. The explanation that he was in the hospital was followed by the news that he died on the Friday of 1974 Sloop Days. His faithful assistance in the affairs of the Friendship Sloop Society led to his becoming the first honorary member, Novem- ber 28, 1964. The 1975 homecoming races and this souvenir program are dedicated to Dick’s memory.
Friendship Sloop Society PRESIDENT Dr. Henry O. White (owner of Sarah Mead) VICE PRESIDENT Jack Cronin (owner of 1’annis) SECRETARY Betty Roberts — Friendship, Maine TREASURER Ernst Wiegleb (owner of Chrisxy) ASSISTANT TREASURER Carlton Simmons — Friendship. Maine HISTORIAN Carlton Simmons — Friendship, Maine HONORARY PRESIDENT Bernard MacKenzie (owner of Voyager) HONORARY MEMBERS Howard Chapelle, Cyrus Hamlin, William Danforth, John Gould, Herald Jones, Albert Roberts, Betty Roberts, Lincoln Ridgeway 1975 Committees RACE COMMITTEE William Danforth, Chairman Connie Pratt, Elbert Pratt Randy Danforth OFFICIAL HANDICAPPER Cyrus Hamlin PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Gould, Al Roberts, Bill Thissell, Newton Hinckley BEATRICE PENDLETON SCHOLARSHIP FUND William Pendleton TOWN COMMITTEE Douglas Lash, Chairman Everyone in town willing to help ASSISTANT SECRETARIES Nancy Penniman, Dot Gould, Caroline Zuber MASSACHUSETTS BAY RACES Lincoln Ridgeway — Race Committee Chairman OFFICIAL PIPER Donald Duncan OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER Bill Olson OFFICIAL CANNONEER Al Roberts We Say It In Friendship Welcome to the fifteenth annual homecoming of the Friendship Sloop Society! The fifteenth is traditionally the crystal anniversary, and in recognition of this the Maine Legislature spent a good part of the spring debating about returnable beer bottles. Our members are deeply moved. This program booklet gives you information about the sloops, the races, and related events. You will also find in it the names and purposes of the good folks who support our society with their paid announcements. Tell them you met them here. Be ye kind one to another! Commercialized? A gentleman who is perhaps correct expresses regret that sloop days have become “commercialized.” Be informed, please, that the Friendship Sloop Society is a non-profit corporation, and its only interest in accumulating money is to swell the principal of the Beatrice Pendleton Memorial Scholarship Fund — to aid Friendship seniors in their educations. The Society transfers money from its working account to this fund each year. Otherwise, the only commercial projects of the Society are the gift shop which is clearly labeled as a scholarship benefit, and the sale of hot peanuts. Peanut proceeds also go to the scholarship fund. Otherwise, the “commercial” aspects of Sloop Days are unofficial. This is neither to praise nor to blame, but simply to state the fact. Cover photograph by Bill Olson. FOLLOW THE RACES ON THE GOOD TIME CAPT. BOB FISH Iv. 11:30 a. m. and Iv. 1 -.45 p. m. Fares — $3.50
Past Regatta Winners 1961 Governor’s Trophy — VOYAGER (one race) 1962 Gorvenor’s Trophy — EASTWARD Eda Lawry Trophy — AMITY Lash Bros. Trophy — EASTWARD 1963 Governor’s Trophy — DOWNEASTER Eda Lawry Trophy — JOLLY BUCCANEER Lash Bros. Trophy — EASTWARD 1964 Governor’s Trophy — EASTWARD Eda Lawry Trophy — CHRISSY Lash Bros. Trophy — EASTWARD Palawan Trophy — MARGIN 1965 Governor’s Trophy — DIRIGO Eda Lawry Trophy — CHRISSY Lash Bros. Trophy — DIRIGO Palawan Trophy — HERITAGE Wonalancet Trophy — HERITAGE 1966 Governor’s Trophy — EASTWARD Eda Lawry Trophy — CHRISSY Lash Bros. Trophy — EASTWARD Palawan Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER George Morrill Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Jonah D. Morse Trophy — CHRISSY 1967 Governor’s Trophy — DIRIGO Eda Lawry Trophy — not awarded, race called for fog Lash Bros. Trophy — not awarded, race called for fog Palawan Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Morrill Trophy — EASTWARD (presented for finishing in fog) Jonah D. Morse Trophy — BLACKJACK 1968 Governor’s Trophy — RIGHTS OF MAN Eda Lawry Trophy — CHRISSY Lash Bros. Trophy — RIGHTS OF MAN Palawan Trophy — HERITAGE Morrill Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Jonah D. Morse Trophy — CHRISSY 1969 Governor’s Trophy — EAGLE Eda Lawry Trophy — EAGLE Lash Bros. Trophy — ECHO Palawan Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Morrill Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Jonah Morse Trophy — EAGLE Anjacaa Trophy — FRIENDSHIP Seller Trophy — CHANCE Governor’s Trophy — E Eda Lawry Trophy Lash Bros. Trophy _ R,GHTS OF MAN Mornll Trophy — COCKl E Bruno & Stillman — PHOENIX Jonah Morse Trophy — BLACKJACK Anjacaa Trophy — EASTWARD Palawan Trophy — COCKLE Jarvis Newman Trophy — PHOFNIX Seller Trophy — TANNIS Gould Grandfather Trophy — GLADIATOR 1971 All three races cancelled because of fog and lack of wind. Gladiator Trophy — SEPOY Seller Trophy — VIDA MIA Nickerson Trophy — SARAH MEAD 1972 Governor’s Trophy — ELL1E T Eda Lawry Trophy — CHRISSY Lash Bros. Trophy— TANNIS Morrill Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Bruno & Stillman — SALATIA Jonah Morse Trophy — CHRISSY Anjacaa Trophy — ELLIE T Palawan Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Class D Overall — PHOENIX Jarvis Newman Trophy — ELLIE T Seller Trophy — SARAH MEAD Gould Grandfather Trophy — TANNIS Gladiator Trophy — VOGEL FREI Nickerson Trophy — VOYAGER 1973 Governor’s Trophy — SARAH MEAD Eda Lawry Trophy — DICTATOR Lash Bros. Trophy — PATIENCE Morrill Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Bruno & Stillman Trophy — MAGI Jonah Morse Trophy — CHANCE Anjacaa Trophy — SARAH MEAD Palawan Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Class D Overall — CALL1PYGOUS Jarvis Newman Trophy — SALATIA Seiler Trophy — GYPSY Gould Grandfather Trophy — Kim Newman (DICTATOR) Gladiator Trophy — SEPOY Nickerson Trophy — Kip Files (CHANCE) 1974 Governor’s Trophy — DICTATOR Eda Lawry Trophy — DICTATOR Lash Brothers Trophy — TANNIS Morrill Trophy — CHANNEL FEVER Bruno & Stillman — HOLD TIGHT Jonah Morse Trophy — DICTATOR Anjacaa Trophy — RIGHTS OF MAN Palawan Trophy — GYPSY Class D Overall — HOLD TIGHT Jarvis Newman Trophy — HOLD TIGHT Seiler Trophy — MAGI Gould Grandfather — SCHOODIC (Joshua Whitehouse) Gladiator Trophy — TANNIS Nickerson Trophy — Ebenezer Gay, Jr. (DIANA) Dr. Hahn Trophy — Anna R Trophies Following is a list of the trophies presented each year and what they are presented for: Governor’s Trophy — to overall winner in Classes A & B Eda Lawry Trophy — to Class A winner of Saturday race Lash Bros. Trophy — to Class B winner of Saturday race Morrill Trophy — to Class C winner of Saturday race Bruno & Stillman Trophy — to Class D winner of Saturday race Jonah Morse Trophy — to Class A overall winner Anjacaa Trophy — to Class B overall winner Palawan Trophy — to Class C overall winner Jarvis Newman — to winning 25′ Pemaquid design Friendship Seiler Trophy — to the friendliest Friendship Gould Grandfather Trophy — to the winning sloop with the youngest crew member. Gladiator Trophy — to the sloop coming the greatest distance Nickerson Trophy — to the sloop with the yourfgest skipper that actually was in command during the races President’s Message The most appropriate message this year has got to be self-congratulatory on the Society’s reaching a fifteenth annual homecoming. Not all of us were around that first year when a handful of sloops appeared, and at that time nobody was at all sure that the idea would lead to repeats, let alone a firm society of Friendshlppers whose numbers grow each year. In the beginning, those who came back to Friendship with their sloops had certain notions of comradeship and friendliness which have kept our society unique in the sailing fraternity. We are not just another yacht club. Those original notions were good, and for fifteen years we have done well by them. To be president of the Friendship Sloop Society is a privilege, and my thanks go to the Friendship sloopers for indulging me as they have. Welcome home again! — Hank White
The Personal Book & Stamp Shop (and specializing in the best of children’s books) Social Stationery Greeting Cards 88 Main Street Thomaston Open: Tues. thru Sat., :0:30-5 Telephone 354-8058 , MAINE Your Quality Department Store Gifts-Crafts Route 22O South Friendship Street Waldoboro, Maine 04572 Miriam and Bill Belts List of Events FIRST RACE THURSDAY, JULY 24 9:30 A. M. Skippers’ Meeting 12:00 Noon Starting Time of First Race “Gam Night” for Skippers & Sloops SECOND RACE FRIDAY, JULY 25 9:30 A. M. Skippers’ Meeting Starting Time of Second Race Chicken Barbecue 12:00 Noon 6:00 P. M. 6:30 P. M. Water Events for Youngsters Harbor Lights – at dusk THIRD RACE SATURDAY, JULY 26 9:00 A. M. Skippers’ Meeting 10:30 A. M. Parade of Sloops 12:00 Noon Start of Third Race 12:00 Noon Lobster meal served continously until 6:00 P. M. on hillside facing the Harbor. Snacks and lobster meals served in several places. Information Booth will give full particulars. Open House at Boat Shops and Museum. Please make use of the free “Village Shuttle” to see these points of interest. 1:30-2:30 Field Events for Children at Harborside. 7:30 P. M. Awards Banquet served in the Town Hall by reservation only. MASSACHUSETTS BAY RACES — Aug. 23 & 24 Corinthian Yacht Club — Marblehead, Mass. CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THE PROGRAM WILL BE NOTED AT THE INFORMATION BOOTH AND ON THE WHARVES.
Learning Expensive Habits ‘”/::. iis If the town of Friendship gives pleasure to returning sloop crews each July, that is nothing to the great gustatory pleasure the community has brought over the years to lobster-loving mankind. The sea is tra- ditionally the town’s support. And each July as the land-roving visitors come to see the sails of the Friendship Sloops, they give equal time to watching and photographing the working lobstermen who come and go about their business, many of them paying little attention to the pleasure craft. And eating a Friendship lobster is a must — although the young lady here seen in the throes of great good happiness may well be thankful for wealthy parents! INTERESTED IN FERROCEMENT or Fiberglass boatbuilding? This new model boatbuilding kit is an ideal way to learn the basics of Fiberglass or Ferro-cemem boat construction, at Vi” scale. Each step lions to the rigging of sails —is hand- crafted in miniature. Templates, all materials and complete illustrated instructions are supplied. Cape Cod Catboat $9.95 or Friendship Sloop 512.95 (Post Paid U.S.A.) Send name and address to receive further infor- mation as new designs are released.’ ‘Plus M.Y. Tax where applicable’ Replica SeaCraft;, 44 Pommer Ave., sStaten Island. New York 10304. List of Friendship Sloops No. & Name C/ass 1. Voyager A 2. Dictator A 4. Golden Eagle A 5. Content B 6. Eastward B 7. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. Tannis Amity Mary Ann Shulamite Easting Vigor Vida Mia B A B B B B C 16. Retriever B 17. Jolly Bucaneer A 18. Chrissy A 19. Blackjack A 21. Wilbur Morse B 22. Ellie T B 24. Ancient Mariner A 26. Virginia M A 27. Red Coat B Built By Charles Morse Robert McLain 1904 A. F. Morse 1910 S. M. Ford 1961 James Chadwick 1956 W. S. Carter 1937 Wilbur Morse 1900 Lash Bros. 1958 S. Gannett 1938 C. A. Morse 1920 Morse (Thomaston) 1946 E. L. Stevens 1942 1942 Gannet 1942 McLain 1909 Charles Morse 1912 Wilbur Morse 1900 Carlton Simmons 1947 John Thorpe 1961 Wilbur Morse Wilbur Morse 1910 Bob McKean Sid Carter Length Present Owner 30′ John Kjppin Ipswich, Mass. 31′ Jarvis Newman Southwest Harbor, Me. 26′ William Haskell Marblehead, Mass. 25′ Robert Edwards Montclair, N. J. 32′ Roger Duncan West Concord, Mass. & East Boothbay. Me. 38′ 30′ 31′ 24′ 29′ 30′ 30′ 22′ John D. Cronin Sturbridge, Mass. James R. Wiggins Brooklin, Me. Dr. Joe Griffin Damariscotta, Me. James & Pauline Doolittle Five Islands. Me. James R. Pierpont Milford, Conn. Robert K. Emerson Hancock Point, Me. Frederick S. Brown Kittery. Me. John W. Rice Scituate, Mass. 30′ Ernst Wiegleb Pleasant Point, Me. 33′ William Pendleton Searsport, Me. 30′ Karl Heiser Cundy Harbor, Me. 26′ Dwight Foster Newport News, Va. 25′ H. C. Vibber Waterford, Conn. 28′ Jaxon Vibber Waterford, Conn. 28′ Eric W. Osboru Bristol, R. I. 10 11
Boothbay Railway Museum ROUTE 27 BOOTHBAY Maine’s Only 2 ft. Operating Railroad General Store and Antique Autos Grand Banks Schooner Museum 100 Commercial Street Boothbay Harbor, Maine 142-foot SHERMAN ZWICKER, one of the last of the Grand Banks fishing schooners. Historic marine exhibits. Stem to stern ship’s tour. OPEN DAILY 9 to 9 from May 25 to mid-September 25′ Catboat 26′ Eastport Pinky BREWER, WALLSTROM And Associates, Incorporated — BROOKLIN, MAINE O4616 — Specialists In Cruising Boat Design, Marine Surveyors 34′ Eastport Pinky 38′ Friendship Sloop 45′ Pinky Schooner 12 List of Sloops – 28. 32. 36. 37. 39. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 48. 49. 50. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 62. 63 64. 65. Bounty Nomad MarGin Chance Downeaster Pam Gypsy Sazerac Flying Jib Dirigo Channel Fever Surprise Heritage Rights of Man Eagle Echo Right Bower locaste Old Baldy Tern Sarah Mead Old Salt Columbia Kochab Amicitia Gallant Lady B A C A B C C A B B C B C B A B A B B B A C B B A Gannett 1932 Wilbur Morse 1906 Wilbur Morse 1916 Lash Bros. 1963 Carlton Simmons J. P. Hennings 1963 Judson Grouse 1939 Wilbur Morse 1913 W. S. Carter 1936 Lash Bros. 1964 F. A. Provener 1939 Philip Nichols 1964 Elmer Collemer Murray Peterson 1962 Lash Bros. 1965 Wilbur Morse 1915 Lee Boat Shop Rockland 1965 1912 J. S. Rockefeller 1965 Jerry Maxwell 1969 Newbert & Wallace 1965 Rob McLain & Son 1902 Lester Chadbourne Speers 1953 Lash Bros. 1965 Morse 1907 22′ 33′ 25′ 32′ 30′ 26′ 23′ 35′ 30′ 30′ 33′ 33′ 29′ 30′ 31′ 22′ 33′ 25′ 21′ 30′ 32′ 23′ 28′ 33′ 33′ %, ” Richard Bailey ‘•• ,«^ Peekskill, N. Y. ; .’ ‘ ‘ .i”.fc^- A»«tc3*-*f*> **2£~-~– Montague Miller Noank, Conn. Wm. Blodgett Waldoboro, Me. Dr. Thomas Files Ellsworth, Me. Virginia Grew Dover, Mass. Kenneth Billings Manchester, Mass. Robert Lash Orland, Me. Donald Ailken, Woodside, Calif. Joseph Barth, Alna, Me. Roland Barth, Alna. Me. Robert Snyder, Whitefield, Me. Newton Hinckley Friendship, Me. Ernest Sprowl Searsmont, Me. Gordon Winslow Southport, Me. Bill Payne Monhegan, Me. W. K. Hadlock South Freeport, Me. Philip Cronin Cambridge, Mass. Donald Huston Nahant, Mass. William Thon Port Clyde, Me. Charles B. Currier, Jr. Silver Spring, Md. Richard Salter Manchester, Mass. Franklin Perkins Lancaster, Mass. Dr. Henry O. White Camden, Me. Leon Knorr Rowayton, Conn. Fran & Lee Green Tonawanda, N. Y. Robert C. Morse Southboro, Mass. Emerson Stone Greenwich, Conn. Anthony Menkel, Jr. Birmingham, Mich. 13
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I X 22 20. Moses Swann 23. Depression 25. Sea Duck 29. Susan 30. Kidnapped 31. White Eagle 33. Smuggler 34. Pal-o-Mine 35. Mary C 38. Eleazar 40. Comesin 41. Snafu 47. Galatea 51. 61. Windward 79. Nimbus 95. Savoy 102. Agustus 124. Callipygous Name Amity Amity Poole Angus Aurara Carolyn Dottie G Duchess El Yanqui . Estelle A. Maria Nor Easter Pemaquid III Princess Red Wing Sea Gull Spirit of Joshua Spoondrift Surprise Tecumseh Volunteer Wild Wind Black Witch A Morse 30′ 1910 A 1899 32’ Larry Harris • ‘ – – – & New Orleans, La. ‘”‘ &5 Morse Boatyard 25′ Laurence Bershad (Ketch Rig) Marblehead, Mass. A Wilbur Morse 41′ 1902 Restored A Wilbur Morse 28′ B Philip Nichols 28′ Sinclair Kenney 1942 Edgewood, R. 1. B Gannet 27′ James B. L. Lane 1947 Winchester, Mass. N. D. Clapp 20′ Nathaniel Clapp (Marconi Rig) Prides Crossing, Mass. B W. S. Carter 38′ Capt. David Smith 1938 Marshfield, Mass. Erwin Jones 32′ Carlton Wilder 1962 Jacksonville. Fla. 35′ Alfred Gastonguay Beverly. Mass. McKie Ruth 30′ John Kapelowitz 1964 Mt. View, Calif. W. A. Morse 32′ Robert Morrison Metuchin, N. J. B J. S. Rockefeller 25′ George Dowling 1966 Syracuse, N. Y. 32′ Fred Swigart New Orleans, La. A Morse 40′ Frank & Marcelle Savoy Beverly, Mass. Tim Bliss 37′ Tim Bliss Coconut Grove, Fla. D Bruno & Stillman 30’ Henk Vanderkolk 1971 Ontario, Canada Built by >’n’Sf'”t 0″‘”er Banjamin Plotkin, Norwalk, Conn. W. S. Carter Burlington. Vt. (ferro-cement) Elio P. Oliva, Centerville, Mass. Richard Steele, Rockport, Me. A. J. Rousseau, Warwick, R. I. Simms, Scituate Simms, Scituate H. Reese Mitchell, Houghton, Mich. Wilbur Morse Gene Peltier, Wilmington. Calif. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Conn. Charles Burnham Wilbur Morse Robert Synnestvedt. Jenkintown. Pa. George McKinnon, Sillery, Que., Canada Joe Richards, Key Biscayne, Fla. Wilbur Morse Marjorie Debold, Middlelown. Conn. W. S. Carter Mike Dolan, Hollywood, Fla. James Tazelaar, McLean, Va. Harold Tweedy, New Rochelle, N. Y. Peter Boback, Fairfield, Conn. W. Morse David Carr, Palm Beach, Fla. Gannet Brian Neri, Buffalo. N. Y. Robert Standen, Manhattan Beach, Calif. K. Rider Donald Davis, Newport Beach, San Francisco, Calif. ‘ 23
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Ralph W. Stanley Boatbuilding and Storage Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679 (207) 244-3795 Builders Supplies — Lumber International Dutch Boy Paints SPROWL & LASH, Inc. AAARINE AND GENERAL HARDWARE Dial 594-5452 5 Payne Avenue Rockland, Maine 04841 FRIENDSHIP SLOOP SOCIETY 15 YEARS PAST, 25 TO GO Every Year We Look Forward To Next Year Wishing for Clear Skies and a Good Breeze To Bring Home Another Winner We Are Cheering For You And Are Planning To Be Here At The Turn of the Century 25 YEARS FROM NOW, 2000 A.D. Damariscotta Appliance and Outboard Co. and Chasse’s Marina 1 Foye Street Damariscotta, Maine Telephone 563-3456 We Are In Our 36th Year 28 On all his elevations for the new Friendship post office, Architect Cyrus Hamlin clear- ly specified a windvane in the pattern of a Friendship Sloop. This is a reproduction of part of one of his elevations. throughout Christendom. Next to the cock, the Angel Gabriel is a favorite. Gabriel was one of the seven archangels, messenger of the Almighty. Best known as the ultimate trumpeter of doom, he was also the one who informed Mary that she would give birth to the Christ child, and accordingly Gabriel has special symbolism in relation to Christmas. In 1965 the United States Postal Service used Gabriel on the 5c Christ- mas stamp, the design taken from the Gabriel windvane on the People’s Methodist Church of Newburyport, Massachusetts. At Christmas time, each year, television channel six at Portland, WCSH-TV, uses the Angel Gabriel on its station-break slides, and is very proud of the design. It, too, is patterned on the Newburyport vane. Accordingly, as Christmas approached and the cupola of the Friendship post office had no vane, Ralph Gould suggested one of his beautiful Angel Gabriel vanes be put up temporarily, until he could get a Friendship sloop made. Probably the Parsons folks suspected this, somehow, might have undertones or overtones, but whatever the reason was, they declined to have the Angel Gabriel on their cupola, and the Angel Gabriel did not fly over Friendship on Christmas. There was no vane on the post office at that time. This handsome Friendship sloop, newest member of the homecoming fleet, will be raced in the 1975 regatta by her proud owner, Mr. Raymond Gross of Rockland. Entered in Class Q (for Curious) she is handicapped at three weeks and a half, and will pick up her handicap buoy in Henniker, New Hampshire. 29
NORTH LUBEC MFG. & CANNING CO. C A Q L E B R A N D PACKERS OF SARDINES North Lubec, Maine Rockland, Maine Telephone 207-733-5524 – 207-594-4302 SINCE 1885 J. EDWARD KNIGHT & CO. INSURANCE BOOTHBAY HARBOR NEW HARBOR 633-4425 677-3606 If You Sail The Maine Coast or Around The World We Can Offer The Best in Yacht Hull and P. & I. Coverage. Trade Winds Motor Inn DOWNTOWN ROCKLAND, MAINE Overlooking Picturesque Rockland Harbor Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge 72 Modern Units — Telephones — TV — Ceramic Tile Baths Air-Conditioned — Individual Thermo Control Heat Inside Pool — Open Year ‘Round — Telephone (207) 596-6661 Health Club and Sauna EXCELLENT FOOD SERVED IN DELIGHTFUL ATMOSPHERE Your Favorite Cocktails Available From Our Bar Telephone 596-6443 30 Incidentally, when they heard that the Angel Gabriel had been turned down for Friendship purposes, the members of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Thomaston said they would like to have it on their church. They had plans for an addition in the rear, housing a new kitchen and Sunday School rooms, and they were delighted to have Gabriel to adorn this new part. St. John’s is just our side of the Knox Hotel, on the main street. It wasn’t until March that the windvane of the Amanda Morse was ready, and Ray Gross came to get a picture of her. She was a beauty. “Cap’n Nice,” as Ralph Gould is called by his nautical friends, had “done a good job.” The teakwood hull was true to the Friendship design, and the white sails of fiberglass could not be mistaken for amything except the gaff- rigging required. Ray wrote, “. . . the unique windvane should be a part of Friendship for many, many years to come.” Not so. About Easter time a howling gale struck, such as our coast hasn’t experienced in a long time, and gusts up to 100 miles an hour lashed in fury throughout a tempestuous night. They stripped lovely Amanda to a frazzle, and tipped over the windvane fitting on the cupola. Those who say a Friendship sloop likes a stiff breeze may wish to revise their opinions. Somebody found the windvane sails off in the puckerbrush and brought them to Postmaster Robert Lash, and shortly thereafter the hull and arrow were taken down from the cupola so Cap’n Nice could try again. Which he did. As this program booklet goes to press (late April), Amanda Morse is being restored, and there is every intention of having her back on the cupola long before Sloop Days, 1975. The new building is not in the village, but sits toward the harbor, next to the home of our historian, Carleton Simmons. Apart from the business on the cupola, Postmaster Lash does have a lovely watercolor print of a Friendship sloop framed on the wall of the lobby. You’ll see it when you step in to mail home your, “having a fine time, wish you were here.” 31
Synonyms MAINE COAST SEAFOOD CORP A division of COASTAL FISHERIES Occasion called for some trifling research, and it became interesting to see how many boats we have. Dr. Roget, in his excellent Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, lumps everything that floats under “ships,” but this is not the Maine usage. Historian William Hutchinson Rowe (Maritime History of Maine) writes, for instance, that from 1800 to 1880 the six shipyards on the Kennebunk River produced, “638 craft comprising 176 ships, 172 brigs, 204 schooners, 50 barks, and 36 miscellaneous craft.” Mr. Rowe was a meticulous historian. He did not call a craft a ship unless she was a ship. To him, a ship had three masts with “ship’s” rigging. Yet Dr. Roget gives “canoe” as a synonym of “ship.” Dr. Roget was a British physician connected with the University of London, and may thus be excused for neglecting certain Maine-isms. He does not mention the peapod and the dory, the johnnyboat and the doublender. He does show the French chasse-maree, but does not give the equally French bateau, which in Maine and Quebec came to mean a special riverboat. (When the Bath Apprenticeshop built some bateaux to be used this coming fall in the re-enactment of Arnold’s march to Quebec, at least one Maine publication stepped an extra t — batteaux.) Here are some (not all!) of Dr. Roget’s variations on the theme: Ship, bark, barque, brig, barkentine, schooner, transport, tender, merchantman, packet, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, trawler, hulk, yacht, liner, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, tug, pinnace, launch, jollyboat, bum- boat, ferry, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockle, cobble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret. randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, catamaran, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, trireme, galley, dogger, hooker, etc. And, naturally, boat — although Dr. Roget omits pronunciations, and we Mainers have no idea how he spoke it. 32 33
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Roland A. Genthner, Inc. Cif/es Service Distributor Waldoboro Station Moody s Motel and Restaurant WALDOBORO PHONE 832-5362 22 MODERN UNITS – HEAT – TELEVISION RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS HOME COOKED PASTRY PHONE 832-7468 Proprietors: Mr. and Mrs. Percy Moody Nathaniel S. Wilson SAILMAKER At Brewer’s Boatyard West Southport, Maine Specialty Traditional Sails Mystic Seaport Photo (207) 633-2456 36 Annual Meeting The members of the Friendship Sloop Society gather each November for a social hour, dinner, and business meeting. In recent years the annual meeting has been held in the Portsmouth area, that being about as central a place as has accommodations. It is not necessary to own a Friendship Sloop to be a member of the Society, and the membership roll includes many who do not. An interest in the Sloops and the purposes of the Society is sufficient, and the modest fee should deter nobody who is interested. The Secretary will accommo- date inquiries. During the annual home-coming regatta at Friendship Harbor, the skippers of the racing sloops hold several meetings to discuss race matters, and on the Saturday evening the annual skippers’ banquet and awards program is held in the Hahn Community Center at Friendship Village. The Skippers’ Banquet is by reserved tickets, mainly for owners, skippers, and crews. No business is transacted at this meeting. During the rest of the year, the affairs of the Society are at the dis- cretion of the Executive Board. Bicentennial Regatta,, 1976 The calendar will run around so that in 1976 the last weekend of July, settled as the annual homecoming regatta date, will come on the last three days of the month — July 29, 30, and 31. This will mean a week later than our last few Sloop Days have befallen (or is it befellt?). Make plans accordingly. We have learned that Canadian authorities have scheduled the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal so they coincide with our traditional date. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our members and friends. Mission Accomplished A gentleman interested in Friendship Sloops wrote to the Society’s secretary, Betty Roberts, asking if she would send requested material, which she did at once, but there was a small complication in the address- ing. This gentleman lives in U.S.A., but he was going to visit relatives in Italy, and he asked to have the material mailed to his cousin in Florence. Not too long afterwards, the bundle that Betty had mailed was returned to her from the dead letter office in Boston. The address sticker which Betty had affixed was cut off and missing, but the dead letter people found her name when they opened the package. Quite some time afterwards, Betty got the rest of the story. The address sticker had been promptly delivered to the cousin in Florence, who was properly puzzled. Who wouldn’t be? 37
MARINE COLLOIDS, INC. Products from the Sea ROCKLAND – MAINE REED’S SHIPYARD of BOOTHBAY, INC. 55 Atlantic Avenue Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04538 633-5581 “For fhe fiesf in Boaf Building and Repairs” 3 RAILWAYS STORAGE stone chimneys, inc. boutique for women & children on old route 1, 1.3 miles east of damariscotta, me. RITTALL’S BOATYARD Union Street Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04538 Telephone (207) 633-4250 Will build to your plans in our new expanded facilities. Wood construction is our specialty. Send or bring in your plans for a free estimate. PLEASURE — COMMERCIAL Er was geen Dutch courage nodig om my in Friendship thuis to voelen Ed. Note) — Several years ago a charming lady from Holland showed slides and lectured at the Portland Yacht Club about the round- and flat-bottomed boats of her country — they have a society which resembles our own, and on her visit to Maine that year she became in- terested in Friendship sloops. Last summer she made a special trip to see our races, and crewed with Al and Anne Beck on Phoenix. She has written of her impressions, sending her manuscript in both Dutch and English. We have selected excerpts from her English version, for no particular reason:) # & * # # When I told people at home that I was going to Friendship, they started to laugh and asked unbelieving, “Does that exist? A place named Friend- ship? Are you really sure?” I certainly was sure, because each year I get my membership card in the Friendship Sloop Society straight from the town of Friendship. So Friendship existed all right, but as yet I did not exactly know where. In the middle of June I arrived in New York, and when I asked people I visited there, “Do you know Friendship?” they said, “Where would that be? A little harbour in Maine? Never heard of it!” (These were not Maine people I asked.) I did find Friendship, and on a Wednesday afternoon in July I came to the wharf of Al and Betty Roberts and I felt forlorn and lonely, not knowing a soul but Betty — whom I’d met once, three years ago. I did not know quite what to do or whom to accost, but someone came down the stairs and came straight up to me and said, “Hi, Margaretha, welcome to Friendship! Come upstairs and make yourself at home.” This had to be Betty Roberts who, with all the excitement around her, still had time to introduce me to people, and to install me in her home at the top of those stairs. “Make yourself at home!” they say in America, and they really mean it. Now I realized only one thing could spoil the fun — the dreaded Maine fog! It is the same in the Netherlands, where our flat- and round-bottom boats come together in a yearly reunion just as the sloops return to Friendship. We, too, look anxiously at the sky and the barometer. Will it storm? But I was not to see a Maine fog during Sloop Days. The weather was warm and lovely and the sailing just fine. And during Sloop Days the “make-yourself-at-home” applied to me aboard the Phoenix with hospitable Al and Anne Beck as my hosts. I became an able bodied member of the Friendship Sloop Society! How we worked like mad, during the second race, to shake off Tannis when she suddenly and irresistibly came charging after us, half a mile from the finish! Ease jib — in staysail — ease staysail — she’s gaining — we’re nearly even — there is the finish — we’re getting a puff of wind — taking it out of her sails — we’re gaining — BANG! Hooray! Three cheers for Tannis and well done Al Beck! And where can a happy hour be happier than on board a good sloop with good friends after a good race? So I enjoyed the three Friendship Sloop Days. When now somebody asks me, “Do you know where to find Friendship?” I shall surely answer, “Yes. Friendship is in the hearts of those who are members of that mar- velous family — the Friendship Sloop Society!” — Margaretha from Holland 39
HATCH WELL DRILLERS NOBLEBORO, MAINE 04555 ROTARY AND CABLE TOOL DRILLING ADNEY M. PECK, JR. Phone (207) 563-3003 JOSEPH E. BALL, JR. Phone (207) 529-5521 The Oivl and The Turtle Camden’s Unique Bookmotel Come Explore Our International Marine Room Art and Crafts Room Children’s Room Bay View Street Camden, Maine (207) 236-4769 MUSCONGUS POTTERY STONEWARE STUDIO and VISITING PLACE All Kinds of Pots But Especially This Year, Lots of Bells Beautiful Sounds — From Ping to BONG ROUTE 32 in BREMEN DAILY NOON TO 5:30 Ken and Sue invite you to WATCH THE RACES UNDER SAIL aboard the traditional schooner AEGIR 40 Mures Aquatiles boat-steerer. Here is how the poem came ou’t * :i= * * :|: M. V. Martialis 111-68 You’re idling, boys, and nothing have you learned But, lazier than Vaternus and Rasina ‘ Tot?, hU8fh °ar? y°U dip in laS8inS “me To the boat-steerer’s chant, you snail your way L lev? r ehVfr”endin? Shoals’ Ateady PhoeboJ In level light, reins in his sweating steeds Day is burned out. The attendant Hour unyokes The horses, weary from mid-sky careering ~ But you you drift and dawdle aimlessly On placid waters, trusting in the boat } lo trifle away leisure not your own! True Argonauts, you shirkers? Good-for-naughts’ Well, MURES AQUATILES. What else? P. M. Woodwell Traduxit Ornamental Ornithology That’s an owl on the track of the Flying Jib n s onh The owl is of Styrofoam, and doesn’t give a hoot. Quite So 41
jg 16 .•• 20 . fliiP}f^ B:^;^^33^:’V”’ *4..;^3V.j’t^^^’^»v l54iJv.%::^26.^|)Oof^-;^^ ^b^m^xm^^^ “;!7.^ a, Rock Ltd,’, 79 -, : 53 56 88 °- 87 39 36 50 76 I03 69 56 I I O ,07 :’.°-v :23;-i^/ICr.n. I ,-* ••.-. .- • fM; 60 39 S A -’97’. •iPV’– V^ »«. .—. 48 86-‘*;•” r.-.-Ximl .fcf: …. Baol: 36 i ; vftri,. =t 121 43 ..-)!.•..- (lKrEll.ou.l04 69 90 G F I 6 s e c , – . . . a, srftiaiMMRJp-vy 49 0. 8JFranklin BfjFs;- ^’ ;i9:. Each day’s course will be announced at 10:30 A. M 6, 6k–:22′-FF^^e:-; ’66 / 7* . .•26″- ‘ ‘ 78 69 ••!<' V^ '" 143 36 C. 3tr*/ 72 103 138 77" ^iLfcC, 3, '°9 86 ,<" 4 47^T:36,,:, 76 •••••-•54 ^' ,43 ...49 fo yist PERRY'S TROPICAL NUT HOUSE Route U. S. No. 1, Belfast, Maine 04915 Next to Jed's Restaurant MAINE BOOK SHOP Main Street Damariscotta, Maine 04543 563-3207 Earl A. Stanley A n d W. C. Ladd and Sons Insurance Since 1854 ROCKLAND — WALDOBORO — FRIENDSHIP VINALHAVEN — NEW HARBOR 44 " writes Herbert A. "as I remember it from a visit of years ago, isn't much of a town." That depends. Mr. Finneson, who is an attorney at law, wrote to tell us he has a beautiful model of a Friendship sloop adorning his law office. He acquired it from Mr. Wilson C. King of near-by Portchester, who has made many models of our favorite vessel. Now retired, Mr. King makes these models as a hobby, but when he began selling them he turned professional. He uses no "kits," but starts from scratch and lays up his craft just as a full-size sloop would be con- structed in a boatyard. He began years ago with clipper models, but one day was attracted by the lines of a Friendship, and now specializes on them. He has sailed, both on water and on ice, but now that he is famous as a maker of Friendship models, he wants to come to Friendship and crew on a real sloop. An invitation has been extended. Mr. King will make sloop models on order, as he did for Attorney Finneson. :r .... 45 WATCH FOR REED'S WEATHERVANE Fair or Foul Weather AH You Old Salts and Landlubbers, Head For REED'S GIFT SHOP ROUTE 1 SOUTH WARREN, MAINE Open May thru Dec. 24th 7vxr _ _ _ . _ Compliments of /instate ALBERT M. HARJULA Agent ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANIES Sears, Roebuck and Co. Bldg. 285 Main Street, Rockland, Maine 04841 Office 594-7] 66 Residence 354-6547 Registered Representative, Allstate Enterprises Fund Sales, Inc. Yachfs With Character Mike Hall ' Donald Harding at Wayfarer Marine Sea Street Camden, Maine 04843 207-236-8188 STUDLEY HARDWARE CO. THOMASTON, MAINE "Where You Can Find Almost Everything" A TRUSTWORTHY STORE Telephone 354-6521 46 Hams Offer Help Communications ship-to-shore and vice versa have been something of a problem during previous sloop races, but this year things are expected to hum along just dandy. The amateur (ham) radio folks have come to our aid. James F. Hartley of Raymond, operator of amateur station WIDIS, proposed to his radio club pals that they come with their mobile and portable rigs, and station themselves variously so people on shore can know what's going on at sea during the races, and the committee boat, the public announcer, and the press can keep informed play-by-play. At press-time for this booklet, all the details hadn't been worked out. But several hams will come with campers and trailers, and they will use a "repeater station" to insure strong signals, and we'll have something about how it all worked out in the sloop program booklet a year hence. Friendship Defined FRIENDSHIP. Town. Knox County. Bounds, WALDOBORO, GUSHING, SAINT GEORGE, Atlantic ocean, BREMEN. Area in acres; Land, 8883, inland water, O, bog or swamp, 779, total 8883. Previous designations Meduncook, Medunkook. Settled 1770. Incorpo- rated Feb. 25, 1807 the 166th town. Part set off to GUSHING Feb. 5, 1834. Part of GUSHING annexed Feb. 20, 1839. Otter, Cranberry, Halls, Har- bor, Black and Heron Islands annexed Feb. 28, 1867. Principle settle- ments, Friendship, East Friendship. (From The Length and Breadth of Maine by Stanley B. Attwood, 1946.) The Other One Webster's Geographical Dictionary lists Friendship. Says it's a village, shire town of Adams County, central Wisconsin; population 453. Webster's doesn't list our Friendship; population about 800 (not in- cluding summercaters and sloopers). Friendship is mentioned forty-six times in Bartlett's Familiar Quota- tions. 47 Another of Maine's Summer Events Maine Seafoods Festival ROCKLAND July 31, Aug. 1-2-3 Four Days of Fun and Feasting JW Unde* Owe A Complete Service from design to the finished product. THE COURIER-GAZETTE One Park Drive Rockland, Maine 04841 THE COURIER-GAZETTE Published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, we are a hometown newspaper cov- ering 26 communities. COURIER PUBLICATIONS Special publications include annual edition State 0' Maine Facts; Maine Coastal Cooking; Jubilee Cookbook; Maine Cook- ery, Then and Now; Waldo Tyler's World; Cuddles, The True Story of a Befuddled Maine Woodchuck. THE COASTAL COURIER A summer weekly, covering items and current events of in- terest to our summer visitors. Maine's major tourist publica- tion. PRINTING DEPARTMENT All phases of fine printing from artwork to finished product are done in our modern Commercial Printing Department. 48 Sloop Daze Sloop Days divide the Friendship summer down the middle. "Come see us before or after Sloop Days!" is the wise way to put it, but around Christmas when cheer is running full tide and gayety is at abandon, the hearty but unwary non-resident taxpayer will be heard to say, altogether too often, "Come for Sloop Days!" The festive jovialty and cheery invitations of mid-winter cause panic come July, when a tally is made and your modest cottage appears booked for a guest count of about 28, with several precincts yet unreported. It does no good to canvass the other cottages on the point in a search for over- flow beds — those cottages have their own 28 apiece. Plan A, in preparing for the influx, calls for a crash course in logistics, but experience teaches that making all the ice cubes you can is important. Then you can fill the cookie jars, etc., and hurry to Friendship Market and Archie's to buy everything they have left. Wednesday of Sloop Days week commences the ultimate adjustments. The first guests to arrive have brought some friends, "knowing you wouldn't mind." And as people come, and come, logistics turns out to be a minor problem after all. Everybody brings something. The nine bachelors bring girlfriends who have baked nine cakes. The refrigerator is full so it takes three people to slam the door to. Shelves are loaded, and those who like to drink their food have foreseen all contingencies. (Make more ice cubes!) When the Sloop Days visitors hit the turnpike for home and the city, there is complete agreement in the family that next Christmas time restraint will be applied to the general announcements. But it doesn't seem to happen. When Sloop Days approach again the count is again up around 28, or 30, and the pattern of the Friendship summer is established — the Friendship year stems from and flows toward Sloop Days. Fun, family, friends, and Friendship. — S.B.A. 49 VISIT ROCKPORT HARBOR DURING FRIENDSHIP SLOOP DAYS Luncheon - Dinner - Cocktails - On The Waterfront Come by car . . . or tie up your boat at our pier. Gulf gas & diesel fuel - 12 ton Travelift - Dockage & Guest Moorings Luke and Norma Allen Open April thru December ROCKPORT HARBOR, MAINE Telephone 236-2330 D. C. LASH HARDWARE FRIENDSHIP, MAINE 832-7781 "DIRIGO" DAVID KENNISTON Lobster Trap Stock Route One Warren, Maine The Commodore's Prayer Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful, but not moody, helpful but not bossy . . . with my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all, but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end! Keep my mind free from the endless recital of endless details . . . give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on my aches and pains; they are increasing and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by. I dare not ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales of other's pains, but help me to endure them with patience. I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening cocksureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken. Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a saint, some of them are so hard to live with, but a sour person (young or old) is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people, and give me, Lord, the grace to tell them so. Amen. * * x * * John W. Chaunce, Commodore of the Cunard fleet and Master of SS Queen Elizabeth, had this prayer framed in his quarters behind the bridge. No one seems to know the author. w. Friendship Village 50 Should you have missed it, Friendship Village is a series of twenty sentimental stories by Zona Gale, published in 1908. The narrator is a woman who moves from a big city to a Midwestern village, and the stories are simple little vignettes of sweet and kindly things that always work out pleasantly. There's one woman who won't go to parties because she wants to wear out her mourning dress before buying a new one. Then there's a washer-woms-o plans a big coming-out party for her daughter, about to be married, and nobody comes because the society (in Friendship!) leader happens to schedule a party for the same night. The daughter didn't come, either, because she had eloped. But all works out well when the society leader brings all her guests to the washer-woman's, and they have a dandy time. Zona Gale was a Wisconsin author(ess) — deletion to sop the worn. lib. folks — and in 1921 a dramatization of her Miss Lulu Belt won a Puiitzer award. Doesn't have a thing to do with Friendship, Maine. 51 JAMESON'S PLUMBING & HEATING FREINDSHIP — WALDOBORO Telephone 832-5516 Suburban Propane PROPANE SERVICE AND APPLIANCES SPEED QUEEN LAUNDRY APPLIANCES ALL TYPES OF HEATING SYSTEMS AEROBIC SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS WATER SYSTEMS Set Your Sails for Higher Profits with Fisher Products DESIGN & MFG. FISHER ENGINEERING Box 259, Rockland, Maine 04841 (207) 594-4446 54 Monhegan Cruises Two years ago when the fog closed in on Sloop Days, one bright spot in the drear was the appearance of the alleged cruise boat to Monhegan. A group of "seasonal" young folks on Davis Point cooked the thing up, and brought smiles to all as they outboarded the thing around the harbor to the accompaniment of alleged music. Last year they were back with a new model, still offering "Hourly Cruises to Monhegan." Above is a poor picture of the first effort (because of the fog), and below a better picture of the huge lobster trap housing the so-called orchestra and adorned with pretties. So far this is the only effort of its happy kind to put more than sloops in the Saturday parade of sloops. 55 THE CHEECHAKO Lewis Point — Off Elm Street DAAAARISCOTTA "For Goodness Sake" Tuesday through Friday 11:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. — 5:30 to 9:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday —11:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. Closed Mondays Weekday Luncheon Specials — Saturday Night Buffet thru October 28th .**, e a year-round Friendship "cruise" The Magazine of Maine, for $8.50 a year. DOWN EAST MAGAZINE, CAMDEN, MAINE 04843 BACK RIVER BOATYARD FRIENDSHIP Telephone 832-5517 Winter Storage - Inside or Out Al Roberts 56 57 "Happy Friendship" FRIENDSHIP PLUMBING & HEATING Sherman F. Baird Telephones: 832-5327 or 594-8691 58 Log of Tannis We're often asked why the whole family enjoys sailing. How do you get the kids to go sailing? Why does your wife enjoy sailing? The answer isn't simple! When we decided to write something for the program, we found that wasn't simple either. Our crew of ten couldn't agree on one subject. So perhaps, the following will answer some of the questions: Remember, the first year we bought Tannis? . . . How nervous we were! For our first trip to Friendship we had a cut-down rig, old canvas sails (patched beyond belief), and we nearly spoiled Depression's traditional record of coming in last every year. We finished just ahead of her. We had only eight crew members that year and the captain had no beard! Remem- ber how beautiful Portland Light Ship looked that year after three days and three nights of sailing in fog so dense we could hear (but not see) the water going 'long side the boat? Remember . . . when Billy (three years old) was put into his bunk for a nap and when Mom checked to see if he was awake, she found he never had taken a nap. He had removed all the labels from the canned goods locker — and every meal that summer was a complete surprise! Remember, when our Helmsman, John, was given a course of 045° and got his figures mixed up and sailed a course of 145° for two and a half hours? Will you ever forget what the captain said when he woke up? Remember, being anchored behind Richmond Island for a day, with high winds, heavy seas and fog — with night coming and no way of knowing if our anchor was holding? The captain was standing his watch, and the only thing he had to take a bearing on was a lobster buoy — so after watching the buoy for a couple of hours, he came up with the idea of tying a string onto the buoy, leading it down into the cabin (anyone who touched that string would have been keelhauled), and tied it onto his wrist and then had a good night's sleep. Remember, that although we have sailed back and forth to Friendship for seven years we have never yet seen the Maine coast through the fog? 59 FRIENDSHIP MARKET Groceries, Meat and Produce 832-4283 Friendship, Maine HARVEY F. GAAAAGE, SHIPBUILDER, INC. SOUTH BRISTOL. MAINE 207—644-8181 Coastal Schooner Shenandoah HALL FUNERAL HOME Serving Friendship 832-5541 60 ™SSS~— ~« «,r£?=^- -WsfeS varH f,member> leaving Salem heading for the Gaff Ri ^ c, face Sled” °nly to fmd the wind 4ht on ow nofef8we at Vine- John Dad and IheHey “commuting VyTusT^f K^”mmer ther^^ Remember, Tom’s explanation to a ladv tO, Sturbndge- the safety of swimming off the Tanni* IZh Si).oreuwhen she asked about Sh off ;hN°hProblem! We fish for mak: f fi^*^ ^ Torn i^s^r^^^^ ^— -p or bait’ ^^^*}.^*£^0?* °ff the stern!” Mom left if you The tales of the s.a,is,ician, Leo CampbeH swung ou, „„ a loose eK., ,ha, have an exciting race whcn e the »” Slaves, hats, binocu- over our we had our hands full! happened because the rest of the debris tied mam °n the stump, and the i-fs
CONTRIBUTED BY FEYLER FISH COMPANY 62 1 tee after the race? It was with a great deal of relief we learned this had been changed. Cindy had jumped overboard our second year at Friendship and retrieved our lost buoy, and the captain had surprised us all by leaping in after our precious buoy the next year! It was the first time we ever saw Don Huston completely speechless! Remember what beautiful peanut butter spread crackers Caroline (4 years old) could make? We were all amazed at how neat the finished cracker always looked — until we found out she licked the excess peanut butter off the cracker with her tongue! Remember, when our plans were for Tannis and Eagle to leave Booth- bay Harbor together quietly at four a. m., and after silently waking the crews, sails were hoisted, moorings dropped, and we proceeded on a col- lision course with one another! Boothbay Harbor woke up early that morn- ing! Remember, Shelley’s complete surprise when she was sitting in the cockpit to see her clothes go floating by? Jeff and Wayne (1 and 2 years old) were in the forward cabin pushing her wardrobe out the porthole! Remember, rebuilding the Tannisl Seeing the covering plank blow away when exposed? But one story leads to another and another . . . GEORGE. . . . . .TIME & INCLINATION AN ANXIOUS MOMENT Anxious Moment Past President George B. Morrill, Jr., has not returned for Sloop Days since he sold his Sazarac, but at Antigua, where he is co-proprietor of Admiral’s Inn at English Harbor, he officiates as timer for annual race week, this year April 26 to May 3. On pages 70 and 71 of the program for the events of race week, an artist has depicted George, and we reproduce his impressions. The first shows our hero with chronometer in (one) hand. The second shows George being transferred from one craft to another after the first proved too slow to keep up with the good wind of the Fal- mouth-Dickenson’s race. The program says, “Although the transfer was made in sheltered waters, the sea was choppy, and we all had an anxious moment for the chronometer.” 63
ALFRED STORER does it—best! FRIENDSHIP STREET Coal – Lumber Complete Line of Building Materials Dutch Boy Paints WALDOBORO, MAINE WALDOBORO GARAGE CO. J. H. MILLER, Owner CARS TRUCKS SALES AND SERVICE Waldoboro, Maine Telephone 832-5317 PADEBCO CUSTOM BOATS BOATBUILDING PLEASURE AND COMMERCIAL ! • POWER AND SAIL TRADITIONAL FRIENDSHIPS MARINE RAILWAY HAULING STORAGE REPAIRS PAINTS HARDWARE Telephone 529-5106 Round Pond, Maine 64 FRIENDSHIP SLOOP Soc. E Peanut Project During 1974 Sloop Days, the hot peanut program appeared with a spanking new peanut cart, and Sally Lash and Heidi Gagne posed by it for Photographer David Wallace. The peanut sales have been super- vised by Miss Lash lately, although in previous years other young ladies of town have been in charge. Miss Lash and Miss Gagne have promised to be on hand for the 1975 Sloop Days. The peanuts are donated to the Friendship Sloop Society by a South Portland wholesale grocery company that prefers to contribute anony- mously, after which the girls put them in candy-stripe paper bags and arrange them for sale in the cart. The copper peanut warmer is authentic, and is the property of the Friendship Sloop Society. All money paid for hot peanuts is brought to the Annual Skippers’ Dinner on Saturday night by Miss Lash, and she turns it over to the Treas- urer Ernst Wiegleb, who has the job of counting approximately $200 in small change. He then credits the proceeds to the Beatrice Pendleton Memorial Scholarship Fund. Be generous! 65
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“”•””‘•MiW^^W^ ?w?w* No doubt the young man arranging a lobster trap on the sternsheets of his skiff is descended from old-time lobstermen who hauled with original Friendship sloops. Lobstering isn’t something that can logically be suspended just because Friendship harbor once again fills with Friend- ship sloops. The pilgrims on the wharf seem to be giving the lad as much attention as they give to Bill Danforth’s handsome White Falcon, com- mittee boat for the races. (Friendship Sloop Society Photo by Bill Olsen, 1974.) The Village Shop Agent for TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS MARINE CHARTS AND BOOKS 25 Main Street 236-2419 Camden, Maine 70 Poopdeck Personables >-; «»!|rt .ft| <--* > , ‘ ” V 1 From the apartment atop Fish- ermen’s Wharf, race finishes are spotted, tabulated, and an- nounced. Nona March is the spot- ter. Nona has all kinds of help. Bill Danforth comes ashore from the White Fa/con to check on poop deck efficiency. Chris MacMullen and High- lander John keep the tally sheet fairly accurate. A Kricket MacMullen keeps it absolutely accurate. And Everett Walker announces the results on the PA. 71
Care to Join? Would you care to become a member of the Friendship Sloop Society? It is not necessary to own a Friendship Sloop, and many faithful members do not. You may use this form: Ernst Wieglib, Treasurer Friendship Sloop Society Friendship, Maine 04547 Please enroll’me as a member of the Friendship Sloop Society. Here is my check for $ ( ) Active membership $10.00 (Sloop owner) ( ) Associate membership $10.00 (Interested person) ( ) Joint Membership (interested person and wife) ( ) Cooperative membership $5.00 (no vote) (All memberships include Society privileges, annual reports, and automobile decal for current year.) 72 Crows by F. H. Perkins Master, sloop TERN If you ask the average person what he felt about crows he would say, “Not much.” They are thought of as mostly a nuisance bird that eats the farmer’s corn and without which we would never have seen a scarecrow. He is big, black, not very pretty, and he certainly can’t sing. So what good can he be? Ask a man who cruises the Maine coast what he thinks about crows and I’ll bet you get a different answer. The islands off Maine are populated with crows and while you are at anchor in a cove you get to know them on different terms. We have even navigated by crow power. In one of the sloop races several years ago, we sailed in thick fog and it was the crows that told us when we were approaching an island. As you sit relaxing in the cockpit of your vessel in the evening or perhaps with a mug of coffee after breakfast, you realize that crows have many different ways of cawing. There are expressions to their language and during the summer the young ones are flying off the nest and they have their adolescent sound. There is the call of the lookout warning the rest of the crowd to pay attention. There is the playing of the kids that I particularly like. There are the clowns who just fool around, and mother calling her brood back home. Perhaps the reason a cruising man likes crows is that he is sharing the bounty of the islands; the clams and mussels, the blueberries and raspberries, and the beauty with them. When we share with others there is an understanding that develops and changes our attitudes towards each other. And so it is with crows and the man who sails amongst the jewels of the coast. 73
,>::• Bicentennial Begins J* Ric Getter Photo The Friendship Sloop Society was pleasantly represented at the exercises at Concord Bridge on Patriot’s Day, when the 200th anniversary celebration was kicked off by a repeat performance of “the shot heard round the world.” More about that shot in a moment. Newton G. Hinckley, skipper of the sloop Flying Jib (No. 45), is also Captain of the First Sudbury Minute & Militia. In 1775 Sudbury sent the largest contingent of Minutemen to meet the British coming from Boston, which played a prominent part in the exercises at North Bridge in Concord and afterwards during the retreat of the Redcoats. As in all the towns in that area, the ancient companies of Revolutionary soldiers have been maintained for historical purposes in Sudbury, but with a cer- tain difference. The spit and polish tendencies of the present-day “honor- ary” companies are lacking in the Sudbury men. They give a reason for 74 this. They say the assemblage at Concord was not a heel-clicking, dress- up aggregation of dandies, but was rather an informal, if practiced, march of men who were not primarily soldiers. Consequently, the Sudbury men don’t bother too much about keeping in step, and they maintain they are the only Minutemen who come to Concord in anything like the manner of 1775. They march each 19th of April from their town common in Sudbury, arriving to play their part in the reenactment of the battle at Concord, and usually this march is punctuated along the way by musket fire, pauses for refreshment from the rum-flasks they insist are absolute replicas of original equipment, and badinage with citizens along the way. This year, however, because President Ford was to speak at Concord bridge, the Secret Service moved in and told the Sudburyites they would have to restrain some of their enthusiasms. Flints and powder were taken away from them, and to reduce the Sudbury frivolity the Sudbury Company was placed in the honorary position of guarding the President’s route from his helicopter to the platform. In spite of precautions, one Sudburyite held onto his flint, somehow kept some powder, and at the most serious moment of the exercises let his musket go while crossing the historic bridge. The Secret Service moved in on him and he shortly said he was sorry and wouldn’t do it again. But his shot was heard around the world on television. Captain Hinckley, as he tells it, found the 1975 reenactment of the 1775 story subdued and far less fun than the same thing in ordinary years. The presence of the President and the security developed put a damper on the customary, and a tension prevailed in both the Minutemen and the crowd. The photograph of Newt and his friends crossing Concord Bridge was made by Ric Getter of the South Middlesex Sunday News of Framingham, Massachusetts, and there’s a story about that. It was made in color, and was reproduced on the front page of the News in color on April 20. Immediately, the News received a request from Der Spiegel in West Germany for permission to use the picture in that magazine. Der Spiegel is a news magazine somewhat on the order of our Time. Photographer Getter thereupon mailed the negative to Germany, and it was not available when this Sloop Program Booklet wanted a print. Photographer Geller did the best he could — he made us a photocopy from the color separations, and promised that if the negative came back from Germany in time he would get us a print for this booklet. If not, maybe we could use the sub- stitute. If the picture with this story seems pretty good, you’ll know the negative came back from Der Spiegel. If the picture is so-so — that means we made do. In any event, Herr Hinckley is the prominent gentleman in the very center of the picture, wearing a military cape, and closely guarding not only President Ford, but his canteen. 75
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The Lobster War by John Gould (Snitched from one of his books.) Not always can the origins of folklore material be pinpointed, but there is one expression in the lobster fisheries whose beginning is known. The author of this expression was not a lobsterman, or even a State of Mainer — he was Dr. Ernest Gruening, once governor of the Virgin Islands, once governor of Alaska, and Alaska’s first senator after statehood. Originally, he was a Boston newspaperman, and in that profession he became a specialist at doctoring sick newspapers. He had a crew of experts and they’d move in on a journal with anemia and for a fee would conduct the therapy. With this crew he was retained by a group of electric power companies to come to Maine in the late 1920’s and found a newspaper in Portland — which he did, and it was the Portland Evening News. His crew was more than able — it was talented and versatile, and it had the knack of handling news coverage to excite a readership. Things went well, and in a relatively short time the News had an afternoon circula- tion of some thirty thousand, which is very good in Maine, and it had the people of the state all worked up over the exportation of hydroelectric power — precisely what the News had been founded to prevent. Those were the days of Samuel Insull, and there was war in the electricity bus- iness. The established Portland papers had clearly embraced the Insull 78 purposes, and Insull’s competition was willing to spend a lot of money to counteract this editorial advantage. The pitch was that if Maine refused to export surplus power it would attract industry into the state, which would be far better than serving as a powerhouse for mills and factories in Massachusetts, and so on. Dr. Gruening was successful, because Maine people in a referendum vote refused to export power. That there was some merit in his argument may possibly be shown by the presence today of the great St. Regis paper mill at Bucksport — which may even have made the sheet you are now reading. This mill was designed almost entirely as an electrically operated plant. It has certainly made Bucksport prosperous, and used up a lot of non- exported kilowatts. Anyway, Dr. Gruening knew his trade, his crew was clever, and while this power question was in contention he gave Maine a very fine newspaper. Afterward, when the referendum was over, Dr. Gruening moved along to rejuvenate the New York Post. But for a time we had an active, alert, dedicated newspaper, edited and written by talent far above the Maine normal, and to gain an audience for its hydro-power editorials the News had to offer thorough coverage of all Maine’s affairs. But with so many imported, non-Maine, staffers, the paper did get into some newcomer binds. Dr. Gruening was scholarly, and sharp. Since the existing Maine papers had been getting along profitably on a minimum of talent and application, he decided an “up” style would have an advantage. At the time, any one of the Boston newspapers was outselling the combined Maine papers in their own areas, and Dr. Gruening realized that to gain a substantial readership in Maine he must consider Boston his competition, too. Since he had learned his trade on Newspaper Row he was well aware of the Boston philosophies of circulation. Among the things he advanced to develop his policies was his style sheet, which he posted in the editorial chambers for his writers and editors. It was meant to give the readers a little highbrow and impress his public that News reporters could spell hard words. One of his rules was that nobody should refer to an automobile as a “car.” Thus, the other papers said that cars had been stolen, cars had been wrecked, and that when the drawbridge stuck open, the cars were backed up for four miles. In the News these cars became automobiles, motor vehicles, conveyances, and so on — the idea being that if a reporter were meticulous enough to call a car a motor vehicle, he would be equally careful when describing a power failure in Lubec. A power failure proving, of course, that the Insull interests were inefficient. Just as the electrkky war was peaking, Maine came up with another one — a lobster war out around reaches of Penobscot Bay. Not too many people live there, but for those who do, lobstering is the economy, and they are not happy when fishermen from the mainland wander out that way to set a few traps. Every once in a while a lobster war breaks out, and it is a fearful thing. There is no set rule about what starts one. It can begin in Boston where dealers shave prices, or it can begin when somebody monkeys with the wrong wife. In lobstering, no man touches another man’s gear. Horse thieves in the old West would get strung up, a fairly mild consequence in terms of lobstering. Boats have been found adrift with nobody in them. Where the man went, nobody knows — but they said he cut the warp on his best friend’s pots. One year some summer yachtsmen found a boat adrift, but this one had a man in it. Not knowing the high sophistication of a lob- ster war, the summer yachtsmen were aghast to find this man insensible
with the business end of a machinist’s ball peen hammer sticking out of, or into, his head. After their first shock they debated if they should withdraw this or leave it for a surgeon, and as the man seemed likely to remain in- sensible, they prudently decided on the surgeon and towed the boat in. The man recovered, and the hammer hadn’t been hurt a bit, but the day he got out of the hospital everybody watched to see who left town — this would be some indication of who first owned the hammer. A man did leave town, and he has never come back — nor will he, for the hammer is hang- ing in a baithouse, waiting to be claimed. Thus it is with lobster wars, and when they start they rage furiously. The whole pattern of a region, usually so serene and industrious, slougns off into mayhem, slaughter, and similar unpleasantries. Since a lobster war is never localized, but is watched with close interest by everybody along Maine’s twenty-five hundred-mile coastline, Dr. Gruening rightly decided this one should have all-out attention from the News. He dispatched his crack reportorial investigator, a real private dick character, and his best writer to Rockland, with a photographer, and before they arrived at this seaport, arrangements had been made by telephone for two charter boats to stand by and attend them. They breasted, boat to boat, down the bay for Matinicus. The trained seals were arriving to perform. Except from a Boston paper, no such talent had ever been deployed to cover a Maine story. And they went efficiently to work. They even bolstered the sticky parts with affidavits, so witnesses wouldn’t welch on them. When the story was written and the pictures made, one of the boats returned to Rockland, where an “automobile” was waiting to hurry the stuff to Portland. The reporters and the photographer stayed on Matinicus for the “follow-up.” So it needs, right now, to be explained that the lobster industry makes use of an item called a “car” It is a sort of raft, of plank-and-timber con- struction which floats nearly awash and has great slatted cages under it where live lobsters may be stored somewhat indefinitely. The purpose of such a car is about the same as that of a pound, a pound usually being a cove sealed off by a dam. So, the News reporters told of various depreda- tions to cars, and in Portland the editors carefully corrected this to vehicles, conveyances, coaches, and automobiles. When the story came out it was one of the craziest things you ever saw. The circulation manager, attuned to the editorial purposes, had made arrangements for extra copies of that edition to flood the coastal communities. These were snapped up, and every newstand ordered five hundred more. The lobstermen of Maine never read anything else so funny. At Portland they started up the press and ran off some more. Dr. Gruening tried to analyze this flurry and thought it must be the editorials. There was no telephone on Matinicus in those days, so the reporters had no way of knowing what the office had done with their story until the boat came back. When they did see a copy of that News, they sent the boat back to Rockland at once, and in sub- sequent issues the News disregarded Dr. Gruening’s style sheet, and even came right out in a headline with “car.” You will still find copies of the News of that date tacked up in fish houses along Maine’s coast. Faded, tattered, but treasured, that paper is considered the funniest thing ever written. Which is why, long after Dr. Gruening left the State of Maine, an occasional lobster man will get up after supper, shove his feet his boots and say to his wife, “Well, I think before I turn in I’ll step down and check the motor vehicle.” (Kindness of Little, Brown & Co., Publishers) 81
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