1952 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada
Regatta Report
by Helen Marth, Courtesy of YACHTING Magazine
Lake Ontario Canadian Fleet and Royal Canadian Y.C. were hosts to 31 top flight Star skippers August 28-30 in the North American Championships, held on Lake Ontario off Humber Bay.
The first race was set buoys-to-port on a triangular course, the wind SE 3-7 miles. There was a haze and the marker boat, the 8 Meter Norseman, was not visible from the starting line. The wind apparently backed before the start, and those skippers on a starboard tack soon sighted the inshore second mark and made for it. However, Stan Ogilvy and several others on a port made for the correct mark and rounded well ahead of the rest of the fleet, which then headed for that mark. This race became a parade, with few place changes. Winner was Oglivy in Flame, Bev Waddell’s Paleface second and Mason Shehan’s Vim third. The race was protested, but the committee disallowed the protest.
On the second day the wind was from the SW about 15-16 miles and the course was a windward-leeward one set well out in the lade. Heavy seas made the going tough and several Stars were forced to withdraw with minor rigging difficulties. J.H. VanDykes’s Sea Skate took this race with Owen Torrey’s Cygnet second and Harry Nye’s Gale third. Only 20 boats answered the starting gun for the final race on Saturday, again a windward-leeward in a heavy easterly. Gale took this race with Sea Skate second and Flame third.
Stan Oglivy in Flame, with 88 points, won the series and with a first, fourth, and third led in points throughout the series, although at the start of the third race he was closely pressed by Harry Nye and J.H. VanDyke who took second and third to total 87 and 86 points respectively.
A handsome new perpetual trophy, a silver urn with a Star boat mounted on the finial of the cover was presented to the I.S.C.Y.R.A. by the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
Results
1952 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP - TORONTO Place No. Name Skipper Crew Fleet Daily Places Pts. 1 2700 Flame Stan Ogilvy William Lynn WLIS 1 4 3 88 2 3081 Gale Harry Nye Robert Halperin SLM 5 3 1 87 3 2985 Sea Skate Jack Van Dyke Gerritt Foster Mil 7 1 2 86 4 3257 Vim Mason Shehan C. W. Lyon Jr ES 3 6 13 74 5 2858 Cygnet Owen Torrey Jr Marge Torrey CLIS 16 2 5 73 6 3199 Shreww William Parks Don Sherwood SLM 8 5 10 73 7 2829 Dolphin Emerson Raymond Frank Raymond WH 17 10 9 60 8 2885 Paleface Wm. Waddell Richardson SAR 2 20 15 59 9 1793 Scout II R. I. Miller Geo. W. Voss CLE 22 12 4 58 10 2106 Idol W. Lierheimer Woods SLIS 18 13 11 54 11 3038 Mohawk Meryl Amo Fred Runnells DR 14 14 14 54 12 1310 Diligent Rob't. Kirkland J. Zambella BH 27 9 8 52 13 2576 Sharlyn Laurie Metcalfe John Roberts LOC 4 22 18 52 14 2575 Aquila Geo. Criminale Mrs. Criminale MoB 10 19 16 51 15 3262 Nancy Kat Phil Brumder Mary Brumder Mil 23 16 7 50 16 2013 Lynx Ernest Hanmer James Jackson CLE 26 8 12 50 17 848 Tario Oscar March Donald Phelps LOA 6 23 17 50 18 2010 Armade Art Deacon Nancy Deacon WLIS 24 17 6 49 19 3130 October Rob't. Smith Mary Smith CLIS 19 7 dns 38 20 2484 Sea Gull II H. Lyon Day Rob't. Cameron PPL 13 18 dnf 33 21 1678 Nashira John Roberts John McCrillis SLM 12 21 dns 31 22 2790 Para I Bob Riethmiller Glen Peterson BI 9 25 dns 30 23 3003 Windsong Rob't. Thompson John Todd BB 29 11 dnf 28 24 3291 Punk John Tighe Jean Tighe DR 11 dns dns 21 25 3280 Blue Angel Paul Bishop Alan MacKay BH 29 15 dns 20 26 2588 Generosity Norman Wells Bill Thompson LOC 20 24 dns 20 27 2525 Magic Dick Stearns Bob Rodgers WH 15 dns dns 17 28 3230 Princcss James McClatchy Peter Mecke ER 21 dnf dns 11 29 1444 Escape Tom Raby III Jay Colp NCB 28 dns dns 4 30 1908 Windy J. Dengler Bob Dobbin LOA 30 dnf dns 2 31 3026 Stampede George Dewar Bert Hall OAR 31 dns dns 1
