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POLA's Trophies
During the time he owned her John Vincent, builder of POLA, campaigned
his Bear boat vigorously. As a consequence of a recent personal visit
to the Vincent home to interview Mr. Vincent and Barbara about building
POLA I was provided quite a treat. The Vincents have managed to save a
small portion of the trophies John and POLA acquired during the
forties. Many others have gone the way of whatever happens to misplaced
or displaced treasures: the attic? the garage? the storage unit? the
inadvertent toss in the trash? They shared these trophies, bronze
plaques really, with me, and I begged to be allowed to borrow them long
enough to take some photos.
It just so happened that I had hauled out POLA to reef and pay the seams
(July 18 to August 4 in the Berkeley Marine Center boatyard); so I posed
the plaques with POLA.
These photos represent what's left of a much
larger collection. After scanning and posting to the site I hope that
you can still read the inscriptions. Just in case you can't here is a
list of them:
Corinthian Yacht Club, May 1941, 3d place
Wm. Randolph Hearst's SF Examiner Regatta, 1946
Richmond Yacht Club, Tri Island Race, 1940, 3nd place
Berkeley Yacht Club, 1948, 2nd place, Bear Class
Berkeley Yacht Club, 1940, 2nd place, Bear Class
Richmond Yacht Club, 1945, 3nd place, Bear Class
Wm. Randolph Hearst's SF Examiner Regatta, 1944
Richmond Yacht Club, 1946, 4th place, Bears
St Francis Yacht Club, 1948, 2nd Place, Bear Class
Golden Gate Yacht Club, Regatta, 1948, 4th, Bear Class
Aeolian Yacht Club, Lightship Race, 1940, 3nd place
St Francis Yacht Club, St Francis Series, 1939, 2nd
St Francis yacht Club, 1940 Regatta, 1st, Bear Class
Richmond Yacht Club, 1940, 2nd place, Bear Class
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