Corinthian Sailing Club

The Maurice Martin Trophy is presented to the winner of the club championship regatta each year at the Awards Banquet.

The Corinthian Sailing Club pays tribute each year to one of the local wooden boat builders - Maurice Martin. In 1960, Commodore Bednar donated a trophy for the CSC champion commemorating Martin who had died the prior year. (See deed of gift below.) He was a charter member of CSC and had built many of the Snipes and Lightnings on the lake. The 1951 photo shows Martin and his son in their Lightning.

The club championship was originally conducted as the Maurice Martin Memorial Handicap Series. In 1966, the format was changed to a regatta at the end of the racing season to help stimulate greater club interest. It was a weekend of all-out club racing to determine the CSC champion. Three races were scheduled on Saturday and two on Sunday. Fleet champions (one from each fleet) competed against one another in various fleet boats, changing boats for each new race. Non-fleet contenders were determined by handicap races run along with the normal fleet races. The championship then changed to a single boat format. The boat type was rotated year to year. In the mid-1990s, we started using a Portsmouth handicap allowing each club member to sail their own boats.

Our thanks to Richard Wade for reconstructing this information. If anyone has any corrections or additional information to add, please send to webmaster.

YEAR	CLASS	CHAMPION
2009	Handicap/Flying Scot	Jeff Perna
2008	Handicap/Flying Scot	Scott Mauney
2007	Handicap/Flying Scot	Kelly Gough
2006	Fleet Qual/Laser	Mark Babb
2005	Handicap/Butterfly	Richard Wade
2004	Handicap/Corinthian	Richard Wade
2003	Handicap/Snipe/Laser	Gene Soltero
2002	Handicap	Scott Mauney
2001	Handicap	Marke Smith
2000	Handicap	Richard Wade
1999	Handicap	Richard Wade
1998	Handicap	Scott Mauney
1997	Handicap	Chris Dukeminier
1996	Handicap	Kelly Gough
1995		Richard Wade
1994		Chris Dukeminier
1993		Jeff Perna
1992	Flying Scot	Richard Wade
1991	Corinthian	Kelly Gough
1990	Flying Scot	Bob Gough
1989	Corinthian	Gordon Prejean
1988	M20	Richard Wade
1987	Flying Scot	Richard Wade
1986	Rebel	Richard Wade
1985		Richard Wade
1984	Flying Scot	Richard Wade
1983	M20	Chris Dukeminier
1982	Rebel	Richard Wade
1981	M20	Richard Wade
1980	Corinthian	Gordon Prejean
1979		Jesse Uyeda
1978		Brad Davis
1977		Nat Wells
1976		Bryan Willson
1975		Kelly Gough
1974		Kelly Gough
1973		Kelly Gough
1972		Nat Wells
1971		Nat Wells
1970		Fred Tears
1969		David Fagin
1968		Manning Grinnan
1967		David Fagin
1966		Jim DeBoisblanc
1965		Craig Coltharp
1964		David Fagin
1963		Jim DeBoisblanc
1962		John Seldon
1961		Austin Moore
1960		Milton Price
1959		John J. Arps

The Martin Trophy

The Martin Trophy is presented to the Corinthian Sailing Club of Dallas in honor of J. Maurice Martin, the boat builder and charter member of the club.

This trophy is to be presented annually to the champion of the club. Each recipient is to retain the trophy for one year and is expected to have his name and the year of the presentation engrave on the name plate. Each recipient shall have the honor of presenting the trophy to his successor.

The first recipient who is to hold the trophy through 1960 and have his name engrave on the name plat is Jan Arps. The donor of the trophy request that he serve as chairman of a committee to recommend a method by which the club championship shall be determined in the future years. Other members who are requested to serve on this committee are Captain Harold Boss, Captain Largent Parks, Captain Dale Selzer, and Captain Kieth Young. The committee shall be free to enlarge its membership to include other boat representation as it deems necessary.

This trophy is presented to the club with the hope that a suitable small trophy will be presented by the club each year to remain in the permanent possession of each recipient.

The only other restriction the donor wishes to impose is that in the event that a club champion cannot be determined by racing, a champion be named by a suitable committee appointed for that purpose.

W. C. Bandar, Commodore

March 15, 1960

Corinthian Sailing Club Champions Maurice Martin Trophy

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Corinthian Sailing Club Champions
Maurice Martin Trophy