New Year’s Day tradition on San Francisco Bay has the Master Mariners Benevolent Association sailing their classic craft on a very casual race, with a destination up Richmond’s Santa Fe Channel for a chili potluck at Pt. San Pablo Yacht Club. Ariane Paul of MMBA reports picks up the story from here.

There were two starts:

Marbara vs. Sequestor

Bolero vs. Pegasus

Marbara came in to Pt. San Pablo YC first, Bolero came in next, then Pegasus, which took out a big crew on a volunteer sail. Sequestor finished the ‘race’ and came in. The Bear Boat Huck Finn and Briar Rose had nice sails and just came in. 

The tacky trophies were presented with all the proper pomp and circumstance.

Several of us chose to bestow them upon Steve Hutchinson who has worked on many of our boats and has now gone over the deep end and bought himself a great boat, the Winslow gaff ketch Dutch.

Patty Henderson organized the potluck for the crowd, which got pretty big in the early evening.

 

The boats that participated were:

 

AIDA - Skip Henderson and Ariane Paul - providing one end of the starting line (the platform at Southampton Shoal provided the other)

Bolero - Tim Murison

Pegasus - Captain Richard Gillette

Marbara - Suzy Olson

Sequestor - Hans List

Huck Finn - Margie Siegal

Briar Rose - John Ough

 

Many other wooden vessels were represented by their owners who showed up in ‘land yachts’:

 

Farida - Mike & Sue Proudfoot

Little Packet - Dick Wrenn

Makani Kai - Ken & Kristine Inouye

Regulus - Ed & Linda Witt

Nautigal - Jeff & Karen Stokes

Dutch - Steve & Maggie Hutchinson

Rowena - Craig & Virginia Swayne

Liebestraum & Kodiak - Peter Miller

Vixen - Steve & Linda Kibler 

Polaris (SWBC) & Lil Smokey - Tom List & Suzanne Statler-List

John T - Ariane Paul

Brigadoon - Terry Klaus

Bullfrog - Robert Briscoe

Sunrise - Suzy Savage

Patience - Don Mollett

Swift - Brian Linke

For more background, see www.mastermariners.org.

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