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SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Saturday’s
13th Annual Southwest Harbor Rendezvous attracted
more Friendship sloops than it has in any of the
past three years. But by the end, it was just a
two-boat race.
When it was over Gladiator,
the 1902 vintage 32-footer owned by Bill and
Caroline Zuber of Friendship, outdistanced the
field of eight to capture its second win in three
years.
Beating to windward from the
Greenings Ledge nun buoy to the finish line
between Clark Point and the northwest corner of
Greenings Island, Gladiator’s final starboard tack
was good enough to beat Resolute, a 28-footer
owned by Charlie and Maria Burnham of Essex,
Mass., by 40 seconds.
Gladiator, which beat Jarvis
Newman’s Tradition by nine seconds in 2003, has
won two Southwest Harbor Rendezvous in five
chances by less than one minute combined.
Chrissy, the 30-foot, 1912
sloop owned by Harold and Kim Burnham of Essex,
Mass., held the lead over the first four marks in
the roughly four-mile course, but she fell back to
third by the finish line, nearly two minutes
behind Resolute.
The 1899 vintage, 30-foot
sloop Alice E, recently purchased by Tremont’s
Karl Brunner and Kristen Ramos for their business,
Downeast Friendship Sloop Charters, was the top
Mount Desert Island finisher. She placed fourth,
roughly 40 seconds behind Chrissy and more than
three minutes behind Gladiator.
The 25-foot Salatia, owned by
race director Miff Lauriat, came in sixth, more
than 12 minutes off the pace set by Gladiator.
Endeavor, Southwest Harbor’s Betsey Holtzmann’s
25-foot Ralph Stanley-built sloop, finished 13
minutes after Salatia, removing any mystery in the
friendly competition between the fiberglass
Salatia and wooden Endeavor.
Sailors didn’t miss the
opportunity to take advantage of the fine weather.
After drawing seven sloops last year, and six in
2003, eight Friendships sailed in this year’s
race.
Chrissy continued to hold the
lead over Gladiator and Resolute to the third
mark, a portside rounding of the Bear Island bell.
There, the Friendships mixed with a group of
racing International One Designs, also rounding
the bell, making for extremely tight sailing at
the mark.
Gladiator and Resolute, which
trailed by roughly a minute at the Spurling Rock
bell, started gaining on Chrissy after rounding
that mark. Broad reaching on a starboard tack,
they overtook Chrissy by the fifth and final mark
at the Greenings Ledge nun
The final results, including
year built and owners, are as follows:
1) Gladiator, 32 feet, 1902,
Bill and Caroline Zuber, Friendship, 2:15:20
2) Resolute, 28 feet, 1973, Charlie and Maria
Burnham, Essex, Mass. 2:16:00
3) Chrissy, 30 feet, 1912, Harold and Kim Burnham,
Essex, Mass. 2:17:48
4) Alice E, 30 feet, 1899, Karl Brunner and
Kristen Ramos, Tremont, 2:18:26
5) Surprise, 33 feet, 1964, Downeast Sailing
Adventures, Bar Harbor 2:22:33
6) Salatia, 25 feet, 1969, Miff Lauriat, Southwest
Harbor, 2:27:47
7) Endeavor, 25 feet, 1979, Betsey Holtzmann,
Southwest Harbor, 2:40:47
8) Freedom, 28 feet, 1976, Richard and Helen
Dudman, Islesford, 3:00:27 |
