The CLASSIC BOAT SHOW

AND

THE SHORT SHIPS ROWING REGATTA

at Atlantic Challenge, Rockland , Maine

The 2007 Short Ships Rowing Regatta took place at Atlantic Challenge in Rockland on Sunday, September 9th and the second annual Classic Boat Show was held Friday, September 7th through Sunday, September 9th. The Show featured a display of classic and traditional vessels built by the Apprenticeshop over the past 20 years. At the regatta, sponsored by WoodenBoat Magazine & The Edge/The Inn at Ocean’s Edge, 14 boats ranging from traditional peapods to six-oared 32ft Cornish rowing gigs, raced around a 3-mile inner harbor course. Racers started at the Atlantic Challenge pier, rowed out to the lighthouse, continued along the inside of the breakwater, and returned to AC.


Rowing winners:

Fixed single: Ben Fuller, Cushing, 44:40

Fixed doubles: Team ‘Very Skerry’, Jarlath McEntee and Bill Corbett, Belfast, 43:41

Sliding Single: Stephen Theodore, Arrowsic, 43:23

Gig: Team ‘Belle Fast,’ Come Boating, (Malcolm Gater, Wesley Reddick, Roy Rodgers, Rafe Blood, John Dillenback and Andy Tyre), Belfast, 29:33

Kayak: Mike Crane, Rockland, 47:27

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