Yacht Racing

Annapolis sailor Charlie Scott hammered the competition for the second year in a row in the annual Lloyd Phoenix Regatta at the Naval Academy last weekend.The regatta is the United States Yacht Racing Union's National Offshore Championship and was sailed by 10 teams representing nine of USYRU's 10 national regions and the Naval Academy. Area H in the Pacific Northwest did not compete.Scott, representing the Annapolis Yacht Club, headed the Area C team.Sailing with Scott were Charlie Smith, John Danly, Bob McKay, Doug Stubee, Jim Hayes, Shane Zwingleberg and Theo Petersen, all of whom regularly compete as a team on Justice, the SSD & G Syndicate's Schock 35. The team twice has been named best overall handicap sailors and earned the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association's highest annual award, the Labrot Trophy, in both 1988 and 1989.

Close on the heels of the United States Sailboat Show, the United States Power Boat Show comes to the Annapolis City Docks and Harbor Friday through Sunday.More than 600 boats are expected to be on display. Of those, 350 sport boats, cruisers, sportfishermen, trawlers and motor yachts will be displayed in the water.In addition to the boats on display, five large tents and more than 100 smaller tents will house some 300 exhibits of nautical accessories, equipment and services.At the Annapolis show, similar boats are displayed in the same area of the show so that comparison shopping is as easy as possible.