Leonard B. Fowle Trophy Yacht Club of the Year

This year we are awarding this trophy not to a Yacht Club for outstanding contributions to sailing, but to a fleet. This year's award goes to J105 Fleet #2. Fleet #2 encompasses boats from north of Cape Cod to Maine. The fleet started in 1995 with four boats in Boston and Marblehead and now has 18 members.

Originally the boats raced one design until they had enough members to race one design. Ernie Hardy of Cottage Park was one of the early members and the first fleet captain. Boats from Fleet #2 have participated in the J105 NA's, Key West, Block Island, Newport and Buzzards Bay Regattas. This year Fleet #2 reconfigured it's racing schedule and joined with fleet #23 from Southern Maine for it's fleet championship which is made up of the Marblehead Nood, The PHRF New Englands, The Smutty Nose Regatta and several other small regattas. In most of these regattas they put 16-18 boats on the line. It gives me great pleasure to award this years Leonard B. Fowle Trophy to J105 Fleet #2.

 

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