DANFORTH, Maine — This coming Saturday, July 21, will see the first of three sailboat races sponsored by the Peter’s Cove Yacht Club at the northern end of East Grand Lake.
Subsequent races will be on Saturday, Aug. 4, and Saturday Aug. 18. Sailors (including new sailors) simply need to show up on Half Moon Island between noon and 12:30 p.m. on the day of the race in order to register their boats. The fee for all three races is $10.
“The Peter’s Cove Yacht Club is a loose collection of sailors who come together three times each summer to participate in these sailboat races,” explained Frank Bolton, race participant. “The races originally were sponsored by CLIC, the Chiputneticook Lakes International Conservancy (founded in 1992), a not-for-profit group which advocates for those on and around the Upper St. Croix River Watershed’s five Chiputneticook Lakes: North, East Grand, Mud, Spednic and Palfrey, as well as for those on Deering Lake in Orient and Bracket Lake in Weston.”
CLIC ceased sponsoring the races after the regatta held during the summer of 2007. Some of the sailors who had participated in the races decided to continue them, giving themselves the name they currently use because several of the sailors moor their boats in the waters of Peter’s Cove. The Portsmouth Yardstick Handicapping System is used to determine ranking in the race.
For more information, contact Ted Sussman at emdsussman@gmail.com
