The Twenty Hundred Club is a little short on heroes, although we have looked for a few. Cast in the modern mold, it started with three men in a (S boat) bewhiskered, bleary-eyed and soggy wet-beating up Gardiner’s Bay, trying to hold seven Eastern Inter-Clubs who were doing too well; and worrying about the return trip to Rhode Island Yacht Club the next day.
At the shore party we hitch-hiked a tow to Block Island in back of Maurice and Art Guerin’s 12-meter Anitra, dropping the tow line at New Harbor, after the sickest ride I have ever had. In the last of a heavy off-shore swell, we drifted across to the Harbor of Refuge, Point Jude, and anchored at 4 a.m. Having killed the last can of pineapple juice for 6 a.m. departure, to catch the flood tide up the bay, we sailed sixteen long dusty-dry hours in the blazing sun with wet handkerchiefs knotted to cool our skulls to reach home.
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