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I would like to know if anyone has a list of the Alden Schooners that were in the “hooligan navy” 1942 .
My father, Winsor Gale, owned a Q class sail boat in the 1920s which he raced He lost it when the Depression arrived.
I have a copy of a Boston newspaper photo, but no newspaper name or date. My father is in the photo, but hardly identifiable.
He named his boat “LORELEI.”
Can you give me some suggestions for finding that photograph and/or any article that may have accompanied it? Both my brother Justin Gale and I, as well as allhis sons and daughters have owned and raced boats in and around Anasquam, MA for years and would love to know more about the LORELEI history and possible current whereabouts.
I would appreciate any guidance you can give me in this search.
Regards,
James L Gale
I well remember Lorelei here on the Chesapeake. She raced actively in a class called Racing Division (ex class racing boats like R,Q, 6,8m, etc ) in fact she may have been owned by a member of my club, potapskut Sailing Assn. (PSA).
I raced at the tail end of this Division as it faded away during the 1970s and Lorelei was sailing then. Let me do a little research.
Tom Price
Tom,
Lots of memories of Lorelei.
I agree she was a Q boat ( as I recall a Boston designer) and was at Gibson Island my entire childhood and then we raced against her in Racing Division. Stuart Beale sounds right ? My recollection is the were socially prominent, possibly D.,C. based ?
I think she sat under a fitted cover with a lot of other racing boats tied to pilings back in the cove behind the boatyard during the War. I think Proton was there too.
As I recall she had a family crew, maybe multi generational ?
We used to beat her boat for boat almost always in light stuff.
I remember we passed her and beat her back from Sharp’s in the Cedar Point Race of 1970 in a heavy air reach? We popped our unlimited spinnaker by mistake and were literally afraid to take it down. I always figured they stuck with a big jib as it was blowing really hard and a reach and just walked away from us. Our pole fitting dropped the pin at the mast near Thomas Point and we had to lash it to the mast to finish. It had been a light air start and with many sets and takedowns in a light Northerly until the Southerly filled in , we got our spinnakers in the wrong turtles. I stil remember telling Gene Miller ” Take it down ” ; only three of us, and he yelled back ” We can’t take it down.” When we finshed after midnighat we asked the Committee what time Lorreli had finished and were greeted with laughter – perhaps they had been sipping. They told us we were first to finish.
You really need to visit Wintersell soon.
Karl
Thanks for the colorful memories, Gents. As I noted in my original post, I never sailed in the Lorelei, but I heard my father and grandfather tlk bout her. They raced in Marblehead the two yearz they owned her. I grew up sailing Lightnings and Rhodes 19’s on Ipswich Bay in Massachusetts. I will see if I can chase down the photograph at the Boston Globe. Jim Gale