FIRST DISTRICT TROPHIES

THE PANDORA TROPHY

Starting in 1924 the last three races of the International Championship series a separate score was kept for all East Coast boats. The winner was awarded the Pandora Trophy, emblematic of the Atlantic Coast Championship. The Pandora Trophy, a large silver punch bowl and tray, was donated for the Atlantic Coast Championship by Commodore Arthur T. Vance of the Port Washington Yacht Club.

PANDORA TROPHY (Photo: Ogilvy collection.)

THE FIRST DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY

The Atlantic Coast Championship was not sailed separately until 1928 when the International’s was held at Newport Harbor, California. That year the Atlantic Coast Championship was held at Gibson Island, the home of the 1927 winner. It was not until 1948 that the series was split into two Blue Star Championships of the First and Second Districts.

In 1929 Joe Watkins swept that series to score the third win for Central Long Island Sound Fleet and retire the Pandora Trophy. (Retiring trophies after a person or fleet won the trophy three times was a quaint custom from those days.) Fred Bedford, who later donated the Bedford Pitcher in 1949, immediately donated a handsome new perpetual Atlantic Coast Championship trophy which is still the First District Championship Trophy.

FRIST DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY (Photo: 1931 Log.)

THE WALTER BRACHTEL TROPHY

The Walter Brachtel Trophy is awarded to the winner of the last race of the 1^st District Championship.

WALTER BRACHTEL TROPHY (Photo: Guy Gurney.)

THE FIRST DISTRICT NOVICE TROPHY

The 1^st District Novice Trophy (Green Star) was donated by Russell Allen of the Central Long Island Sound Fleet. It was first awarded in 1948. The trophy is identical to another trophy which Russell Allen donated in 1946, the “Inter-Fleet Team Race Trophy.”

FIRST DISTRICT NOVICE TROPHY (Photo: Guy Gurney)