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18 MAY 1964 PORTHOLE Page 7 . imillllllllUnilHIIMIMHIHIIIM !/ i By The Lee by Bob Brown ■aWWIIIHHHmilWWWtnmBIIUIIIMIIHIHIIWIMMIlIHUHHIIlIHlWHIIMIIHIIIimillllllllllllllllHIIIlirg The basin at Fort Schuyler has recently acquired the ap pearance of Larchmont harbor as the spring sailing season has gotten into full swing. To regu late all diis activity, a new watch which is rotated among squadron members has been iiw stituted. The Mate of the Dedc has the responsibility of die waterfront for he day. Ail five Shields Class Sloops are in die water after a-complete overhaul. They are s k i i ^ r ^ by Bob Duck, George Koch, Charlie McIntyre, Bruce Zimmerman and Dave Chamberlain. The sailing squadron recently acquired a most welcome ad dition. That of ten new inter class dinghies. These craft should improve our wins record in intercoUegiate racing. We have been several years widiout diis vital eqaipmesa. The diird new addition to the fleet which will soon grace our waters, is the schooner ‘Mis tress*. Built in 1930 for George E. Roosevelt, she was presented to die C o llie by his widow diia ^ring. She was designed by Sherman Hoyt. Many famous Yachtsmai have sailed on board. She was the flagship of the Cruising Club of America, New York Yacht Chib and Swanhaka Corindiian Yacht Clnbh She has been across the Atlantic twice, many times in die Bermuda Races, Around Fastnet Rock and may other ocean races. She will now sail with a new name under die Mari time College Sailing Squadron colors. She is 60 feet L.D.A. and has a 96-foot mainmast. %e has a full complement of sails, sleeps 12 men in cabins and 8 in the forecastle. Aldiough she has no engine, she does have extensive Monotype Champs on May 16-17 atK.P. On April 11-12 the M.A.I.S.A. Spring Invitational was held at the Naval Academy. Out of 14 schools, the Privateers placed 5di. April 18-19 were the Fresh man Eliminations. Out of ten colleges our Freshman Squad (Buemi and Sinus, Warren and Goldman) came in second. This qualified us for the Freshman Qiamps at the Naval Acodemy on May 9-l0. April 25-26 saw the Service Acodemy Yawl Series at Annap olis. SUNYMC, U.S.N.A., K.P, and Coast Guard participated. We came in diird ^ead of Kings Point. It was close hard racing and we did well as itwasthefirst time aboard a big boat for many of us. The boats were Luder*s 44-foot Yawls. We won both heats on Saturday against K.P. and C.G. Sunday we came in second against U.S.N.A. At the.cdose of the series the Race Committee threw Saturday's second race out as it was 10 minutes over die time limit. This ended in a tie for 2nd place between us and Coast G u at^ The only way to break the tie was to take time averages for all rac:es. Second place was awarded to Coast Guard by six minutes. Future meets include; May 16-17, Monotype Collegh* ate Champs-IXick a ^ Zimmeiw man plus 12 other skippers will race at Kings Point. May 23, until die ships sails, die f ield s Sloops will race at Larchmont Yacht Club against Kings Point. Distance and overnight racing on the scooner will also take place. We also hope to get in some sailing n Europe and then on to a full fall schedule. navigation equipment, full galley and cximilete accessories. The ‘Mistress’ is in every sense cf die term-a proud and beautiful yacht-one which we are fortunate to have. Although die team has been in competition - since eariy March some die more recent meets are: On April 5 die Middle Atlantic IntercoUegate Sailing Associ ation (MLA.I.S.A.) Monotype (single handed) Eliminations were held at West Point. Sunymc, Kings Poiitf, West Point, Cor-' nell, Marist, Columbia, Cooper Union and Queens participated. They were won by Bob Duck, 1st, and Buce Zimmerman, 2nd. These men qualified for the O e a m 2 e r o J At the beginning cf the rifle season this year things didn't look rosy for the Maritime Rifle Team. The three tc^ shooters flom the previous year w » e gone, and along with lack of su perior ecjulpment, and in fact a shortage average ecjuipment, the marksmen knew that they would have to work hard topaove themselves. The few remaining members w ^ e only third class- men with a single season's ex perience in the league. Tim Chichester, Fred F*ratt, Paul Prihis, Bcri^ Rusnak, a ^ Jim Johnson knew what lay before them. Tryouts w o e hrid, and a new training schedule was star ted. The college realized their needs and allotted funds for some new equipment and promised pay ment for three new superior r i fles (not yet receivecl). Captain faring pitched in andsuppli^the team with a coach. Special com mendation should go to the new members of the team. Gully 2/c, Lane 3/c, Sirois 4/c, Frieman 4/c, Wanner 4/c, Turner 4/c, and Richard 4/c. Through hard work and long hours, the team shapied up and won their first meet, beating Columbia Univer sity and Pace College handily. After this they went on to beu IDR TEAM AT MANHATTAN P.R.'s Carry Home Trophies May 8-9-10 thfe team left for Annapolis for a Shields Team Regatta. Saturday morning we practiced on Navy's Shields boats. Tlie races b^an in flie afternoon. First race Bob Duck's boat came In first and Bruce Zimmerman fourth. The second race Bruce came in first and Bob second. It appeared diat it was just a race b ^ e e n Mari time, Sunday winds around thirty knots widi puffs to forty caused gear break downs and finally cancellation of races leaving Maritime winner of the regatta. The din^ies under the com mand of Buemi and Warren fared a bit worse. They came in third out of 14 schools. But tiie race was cancelled due to gear break down and weather. such colleges as Brooklyn Poly, Fordham, Hofstra, Rutgers, Ste vens, and many others, earning for rtems elves the fourth place slot in the 22 team M^opioli- tan Inter-collegiate Rifle Lea gue. We at the college are ex tremely pnroud of this because last year the matksmoi finished only 16th in the league. One of their few losses was a heart- breaker to those fellows across the river, due to a scoring tech nicality, when at the end of the match the final scores were tied in the high 1300's. The previous school record was set several years ago at 285. This high was tied twice this year, once by Paul Pribis, once by Tim Chich ester, and was smashed by Fred Pratt with a 287 out of a pmssible pierfect score of 300. Next year piromises to be a better year, not only because the entire team wUl be back with at least one year expierience, but because there will be a new rifle range and supierior equipnnent waiting- in the new gym. Incidentally The Maritime College is the only State UnivM-sity with its own range. This year the marksmen did ex- tremriy well and next year piro- mises to be better. In '65 the sky's the limit. Well done guys and good lucki As of this writing, die Persh ing Rifles have already surpiassed their fine record of 1963. To date, P Compiany has won 10 tropihies and a medal in various invitatioiv al drill m e^s inthe early momhs of 1964. This string of award winning performances was ; started'way back in February with a clean sweep at the Coast Guard Acad emy drill meet at New London Conn. We took second place in IDR, first in the trick drill, and first place overalL Trick drill was won by a staggering pioint ;^read of 110 puints. Individual honors were is o won- A. La- bella, 2/c placed ^ in a field of 40 participants in the in- dividuaU P. Compiany did not rest on its laurels and one week later found Itself in comp>etitionwifhl7ofthe best teams on the East Coast. This time it was at St. Prters College in New Jersey and they found out (the hard way) what con^petition was really like. The best diey could do was a 4th place finish in trick drilL Not a bad showing but better days were not far ahead. One week later P Compiany traveled downtown for die Mai>-- hattan Invitational Meet. Here assembled were 25 of die metro- piolitan area's fine drill teams. When all the scores were finally in, P Compiany had taken 4th in IDR, 1st in trick drill, and s e o ond overalL (note- diey missed first overall by a slim 11 pioints) Next on the agenda was the meet spionsored by our “ good friends\ at Pratt Institute. Beingbiasedas always, diey nonetheless realized that P C o n ^ n y was and always will be good enough to beat aiqr Pratt team on any drill floor at any time. We took 3rd pdace ta while our hosts fini*itia< somewhat lower in die standingiu (note—this year die Pershiag Rifles have lost to Pratt onfr twice in IDR and never in tries drill). P Compianyfinallygotwhatthey thought to be well-deserved rest after four straight wedcs of drill meets. Such was not the case. Widi die new 4tfa edass members of the Pershing Rifles waiting anxiously for an opening to ap^ pear on the drill team it was no ticed that som^hing had to be done. As a result, TDD Barra together with his cohorts came iq> widi a brand new idea-two trick drill teams. Now, not only does the A team have to beat Pratt Instimte but it also has to -worry about beating die B team. Barra still retains die leadofthe A team with R. Schlexhi, 2/c, taking die helm of die B team, (note- die B team is exm^sed solely of 3rd and 4th classmen) With this two team idea, P Compiaiiy traveled up to Cornell University in late Apiril forcom- pietition. In die final analysis die im team took 3rd pdace and die Company took 2nd overalL The A team took second pdace in trick drill but it was the B team which was the suiprise of the day as it finished 4h, a mere 9.8 pioints bdiind the more eagierieiiced A team.-(naCe-seein8 ta me tiiatthe A team had better watch oat o r they may find the B team bring ing home the tropdiienj Wltb the year drawing quickly to a close P Company still had several meets remaining cmdieir busy scfaecfciic- The last of diese was a meet at flie Wocldrs F air held on Mother’s Da^Rtt!;c^gS£_ BowL Time-wise the alEnJr coo- a— a the e m r e day a s some 22 teams completed fo r the nine vallable awiud s. Maritime pnccni one of it's fine pierformances of the season as the IDR team, un der die command of J.P.Bnttle, 1/c, captured 4tfa place in afield of 15 teams. The trick drillteam took 5di pdace as Barra took the team on the floorfortfaelasttinie as TIX) of P. Company. With next year will come a new TDD with undoubtedly a few new ideason how to win trophies. He had better gave real good ideas because k will take a conqdete effort to b et ter the record made by the P J l 's in '64. All told P Company car ried home tm trophies and a medal in conqietitioa throughout this year. A record such as that certainly presems an CTviahle goal for the team cf *65 to aim at. Somehow we fed that the win ning record set this year will be bettered nexiyearas-tbe** mighty men of Maritime” sally fotih to do battle once again with tiieRO- TC's from BrocdclynPoty.CCNY, and oh yes-even Pratt, Science Fair Recently Cadet Paul B. Pribis 3N was chosen to represent New York State Maritime College in the 18th Annual Eastern Col leges Science Conference. As a piarticipiant, his piapier was one of 196 selected from those submitted by students in every major col l i e east of the Mississippi. Be sides piresentlng his fiaper. Cadet Pribis also attended the sym- piosium of guest spieakers and toured the science laboratories of Jersey City State College, where the conference was held. Other piapiers presented cover ed subjects from biology to*'Laser Fire Control Analysis.\ Cadet Pribis, while participiating was elected as an honorary member of the lots Mu Pi, the only re search fraternity in the U. S. He is the first student <rf Mari time to receive this honor. Cadet Pribis' piapier was entitled, \Api- piaratus and Methods for Quan titive Study cf R. F. Non- thermal Effects in the Micro Wave Region on Biological %ieci- meos. TRICK DRILL IN ACTION ■ V-p
