The Star-Democrat from Easton, Maryland • Page 16

THE ASTON STAR-DEMOCRAT. ASTON. FRIDAY. JUNE 11. 1948 couraged by the five new boats already built and by our banding to A Chesapeake Day Log Canoe Speaks Gilbert F.

New nam gether as the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe Association, whose members. WHY TAKE A CHANCE? Let Us Insure Your Car Now Memoirs of Mary Rider Greenbury Light was a reach and from there to the finish line our square sail helped again and we needed it. The Greenwell was boiling down on us with a big white bone in her teeth and I was out of breath and half full of water from a near-swamping caused by the ferry coming on the wrong side of the channel buoys. Anyway, we crossed first, and I was the heroine of the day. All the foregoing is no doubt old- ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR I hear, are dedicated to perpetuating our kind.

I understand that one of the alms of this Association is to stimulate interest in the forming of log canoe fleets at all the yacht clubs on the Bay so that we will have some keen interclub competi Installations and Repairs White caps were showing in the outer Bay as we crossed the starting tion. This suite us fine, for we like iYloffett Insurance Agency nothing better than a hotly con line in Annapolis Harbor, just off The Story Of A Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe As Told By Her To WILLIAM H. GREEN (Reprinted from the May issue of the Chesapeake Skipper, by special permission) age remlnescing but if it Imparts the germ of pride that we think all the Naval Academy sea-wall. The PHONE 279-W ST. MICHAELS, MARYLAND HOWARD TL MOFFETT For AH Tour Insurance Needs 7 North Harrison Street, Easton.

Md. tidewater Marylandera and Vir einlans should have for us es Phone 1351 Greenwell, close hauled, stood out on the starboard tack to Thomas Point buoy; we on the same course tended race. As for my self well, I'm getting well along In years. But Tm not so old that I don't enjoy the rugged game of racing even if it means being towed all over the Bay and spending nights in strange berths. But I can't live forever and pecially yachtsmen so that we may nrrf.

become a dim memorv like the until the going got to rough and we had to run for quieter water nearer I am going to relate to you some of the high-points of my life and trace my lineage back to its origins so that you will understand why we shore. We dodged fish nets all the way down to Thomas, which we cleared to port about three minutes behind the Greenwell who by then not have been in vain. We feel that the Chesapeake's most characteristic boat should not be permlted to become extinct. Why, one or us in the China Sea would immediately be recognized as a daughter of the neither can my sisters, many of whom are right now dying lingering deaths on reefs or salt marshes or Chesapeake Bay log canoes are so After being prettied up with a red band and everything, my second launching was quite an occasion. A few years later, in a drifting light-air race in Eastern Bay in the 1921 Baltimore Sun work boat races, I won a suit of sails my first trophy! I was mighty proud of this, even though some did say we "pie plated," which I avow we did not.

By then the Miles River Yacht Club had been organized and started an intense effort to restore interest in our racing. This was accomplished in a great measure by the late Governor Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland, who sponsored a perpetual trophy known as the Governor's Cup. The first Governor's Cup Race was run in 1927 and won by Magic, whose name was inscribed thereon and four or five times since. I won it in 1928, 1929 and 1930.

Later the Margaret Hall, Flying Cloud, Island Bird, and Noddy were added to this select group. The Sid Covington and John B. Harrison Memorial Trophies are others we race for each year at the Miles River Yacht Club Regatta. lonely beaches. proud of our ancestry.

You see, we This brief autobiography was not Chesapeake from a mile away. are trying to perpetuate ourselves so as to escape oblivion and I hear that Three agencies have saved us in the past: The Chesapeake Bay DR. ERNEST R. MacDONALD Osteopathic Physician Chesapeake Haven, Claiborne, Md. Hours: Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1:00 P.

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you want to help us live on. was standing out to the middle of the Bay many points east of our next objective, Hackett's Can. We caught her about two thirds down and when about fifty feet away we ducked under her stern, shot up our square sail and headed NW for Hackett's Can. Before she could get straightened out. we had a quarter mile lead on her.

The next leg to our progeny. And the only way this can be done is to create more of us Yacht Club of Easton, the Baltimore Sun, which sponsored races for us in the twenties, and the Miles River Yacht Club that has nursed us for these many years. We are en so that our willowy masts and billow My name is Mary Rider and I am a member of a family that consists mainly of stately old ladies. It's true that a few of us are still young girls, but most of us are old and that's what we object to. So IH start from the beginning and Tm ing sails may never disappear from the waters that we love.

sure you'll understand. When one of our forbears was captured from the Indians by the early Jamestown settlers, it marked the beginning of our evolution from My two greatest thrills other than, of course, my resurrection a crude hollowed -out log called an were my second win of the Governor's Cup and the match race Indian Canoe to the sleek racing craft that we are today. Later the won over the bugeye Nettie colonists, in need of a larger canoe. Greenwell in the President's Cup Regatta off Annapolis. Of course I remember them well.

hewed out logs in lateral opposition, pinned them together, and we became a punt. And still later we were in me ionner race we had a dressed in fine fashion with a beau spoty light air which suited mv rvpr sized rig. We were first over the line and were 'favored all th tiful suit of billowing white sails plus a shallow keel to hold us on so we stayed out In front to get the the wind when sailing. Parson Jos hua Thomas proved us to be re liglous ladies by using one of us. the Methodist, to visit his flock on gun at tne nnish 13 seconds ahead of Magic, with the Island Bird closing fast.

In the match race, the sky was overcast with unpredictable of LWW It rains Cdld Purs Tangier, Smith, and Deal Islands. Then in 1857 our pinnacle of per ciouas coming in Irom the south. By Charles H. Wieland, 111 FOR THE PROPRIETOR Proprietors have found that Business Life Insurance fills a real financial need. For example, it can be used to conserve the proprietor's personal estate, to guarantee income to his family, to strengthen his credit position, to provide retirement funds, and to finance plans to pass the business along to others.

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