The MacDonald family donated the trophy in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Jay and Allan MacDonald's (MacDonald Brothers) entry into the StarClass. The trophy acknowledges the contribution to the Star Class and youth sailing in Boston Harbor over these 50 years and is inscribed on the trophy.

Jay and Allan MacDonald built Star 1859 (Bubble) coming out of High School in 1938-39. It was a building Fleet (Boston Harbor) with 2 locations...Cottage Park YC and Quincy YC. They sailed from Quincy. They sailed for 2 or 3 years then the war came and the boat was stored till the late 40's when she was rebuilt and re launched. By then newer OG/Etchells' boats came on the scene and were lighter and faster. They promoted star sailing to the youth of Quincy and managed and developed youth sailing programs at QYC into the early 60's.

Jay crewed for Charles Winslow in the early and late 40's and early 50's. Charlie owned Black Roger and Black Magic and sold Joe Duplin his first modern Star at 14. Joe's first Star was the Scalded Cat, a dated Star that Frances X. Dolan traded Joe a Winthrop 15 for.


Provided by Gary MacDonald (BH)
Gary is the son of Jay MacDonald, and started sailing a Star at 7. 10 years later bought his first Star, an "A" series Etchells (2857) which was locally fast and won several races in the late 60's and early 70's.

Year Boat Skipper Crew 2006 7763 Bear Hovey Lee Dayton 2005 7565 Dave Perry John Courtney 2004 7952 Ben Cesare Patrick Bodden 2003 7444 Mike Kallin Mark Dolan 2002 7715 William Swigart Carroll Beek 2001 7222 Bear Hovey Bud Converse 2000 6970 Guy Gurney Rob Bowers 1999 7847 John Safford Joe Chambers 1998 7548 Peter Johnson L James Hahn 1997 7694 Dieter Gast Patrick Bodden 1996 7168 Jay Spalding Chris Hogas

From Jane C. Lawrence, CLIS Fleet Secretary It was designed and actually built by Donald W. Coley, who is a life member of the Class and CLIS Fleet. It has many well known names on it. Don lives in Southport CT with his wife Dorris Gordon Coley, who was Dick Gordon's sister. Don and Dorris sailed Stars many years ago at Cedar Point. Don was one of the early members of CLIS Fleet, which as you know, received their Charter in 1922. The last time I saw the trophy was in Rockport when it was won by Jake Fiumara '93 or '94. I took a picture of him holding the trophy and it has been appearing on the First District Website at the moment. Year Boat Skipper 2006 n/a no juniors 2005 7993 John Bainton 2004 n/a no juniors 2003 n/a no juniors 2002 7324 Jake Fiumara 2001 7324 Jake Fiumara 2000 7471 John Bainton

The Arms-White series is named after two sailors from the C.L.I.S., John Taylor Arms and Elwood S. White. In 1937 John Arms donated the Arms Trophy and in 1942 the family of Elwood White donated the White Trophy for the winning crew of the Arms series. The series, originally called the Noroton Race Week, was sailed out of the C.L.I.S. until 1969, and then was relocated to Mid-Conn in 1970.

For more information on this event, please visit the Arms White page on the First District site.

Provided by David Bolles (MID)