Block Island Race (1950)
Races1950-05-26 to present
May 26, 1950, 3 classes, A, B, and C, started from Larchmont, New York on Long Island Sound to Block Island Sound by the Race to Plum Gut (or Fishers Island Sound), around Block Island Sound and back to the finish line off Port Jefferson, Long Island. Class A: KITTY HAWK yawl) / John Timken, BOLERO (yawl), John N. Brown / DORIS III (sloop), H.M. Lane / NINA (schooner), Decoursey Fales / BOUNDING HOME, W. Ziegler, Jr. / DIRIGO, Bath Syndicate / ZEEAREND, B. Lippincott / WATER WITCH, John Rodstrom / HOTHER, J. Isbrandtsen, MERRY MAIDEN, H.I. Pratt. Class B: MUSTANG, Rod Stephens / ALAR, D.Z. Bailey / PROCYON, F.A. Dewey / CARINA, R.S. Nye / SPOOKIE, W. Ziegler III / LADY BABBIE II, R.M. Gillespie / REVONOC, Harvey Conover / CYANE, DuPont and Stewart / TAR BABY, T.J. Watson / DOLPHIN, W.B. Lockwood / JULIE, Paul Campbell. Class C: FINN MACCUMHAILL, R.E. Coulson / SEA MELODY, O. Sepp / BEMMEC, E.L. Carey / MARIANN, G.B. Gibbons / NATUK, W.S. Chesley / TINY TEAL, P.H. Langdon / LOKI, G.B. Pinchot / NIMROD IV (sloop), R.L. Hall.