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2009 Vintage Activities

Date Location Description
April 18-19Woods Hole, MA Sixth Biennial Woods Hole (WH) Model Boat Show sponsored by WH Historical Museum in Woods Hole, MA; AMYA-VMYG model exhibit at Community Hall with April 18 AMYA regatta including VM models at Eel Pond.
May 15-17Marblehead MA Vintage Marblehead Radio and Free-sailing event in conjunction with the AMYA M Class National Championship at Redd's Pond, Marblehead MA.
May 23 - September 27Bristol, RI VMYG-AMYA summer model yacht / traditional sailing models exhibit, with designing, building and vane steering displays that support Captain Nat Herreshoff's Model Room at the Herreshoff Marine Museum / America's Cup Hall of Fame in Bristol, RI.
May 23/24 & 30/31Bournville, UK Fifth Biennial US-UK Challenge Cup Races at historical Bournville and Gosport model yachting ponds with 36R Class vane models.
June 13Marblehead, MA R/C Full Cup VM Invitational Regatta at Redd's Pond, Marblehead, MA.
June 28-July 4Brooklin, ME WoodenBoat School VM model plank-on-frame course at Brooklin, ME.
July 12Laconia, NH Laconia R/C VM Invitational Regatta at Lily Pond, Laconia, NH.
August 6Bristol, RI VMYG formal lecture on model yachting and design history at Herreshoff Marine Museum to kick-off their 2009-2010 lecture series.
August 7-9 weekendBristol, RI AMYA-VMYG J Class Region 1 Championship regatta and model exhibit at Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI.
August 9-15Brooklin, ME WoodenBoat School R/C Vintage 36 (V36) wooden model building and sailing course at Brooklin, ME.
September 11-13 weekendSolomons, MD "Vintage Model Yachting Days" National Regatta sponsored by Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD; mix of R/C VM, V36 and Traditional Sailing Craft/Scale (schooner, skipjacks, etc.) model racing and exhibits.
October 17Marblehead MA Bithell Cup R/C VM Invitational Regatta at Redd's Pond, Marblehead, MA.

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(Photo: Miss Florence Rich with her 24" model "Shamrock." The Storrow Drive Pond, Boston Mass., June 29 1931.)