No. I Ocean-Racing Skipper

A glittering shower of awards and trophies followed in the wake of Carina 11, the ocean-racing yacht owned and skippered by Richard S. Nye '25, when she was returned in September after a summer of triumph abroad. Gracing Mr. Nye's library in Greenwich, Conn., which already boasted a notable array of yachting honors, are the Fastnet Bowl, Britain's most prized ocean-racing trophy, and the King Gustav Adolf Cup, won by the Carina for being first in the trans-Atlantic race from Newport, R. 1., to Marstrand, Sweden. She made the 3,450-mile crossing in just over 21 days - an auspicious prelude to still other victories.

With a young amateur crew which included his son Dick Nye '52 and Bud Bombard '55, the owner of the 53-foot, keel-centerboard yawl, won, in all, five events over Europe's finest vessels. CarinaII triumphed in the Royal Yacht Squadron's Britannia Cup Race and won also the Sir Walter Preston Challenge Cup in the Royal London Yacht Club's Race around the Isle of Wight, and the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup, one of the big prizes in Cowes Week. She placed second and fourth in two other races.

Skipper Nye, who, throughout the winter months is a busy New York investment specialist, has for several years spent his summers being a sea-going yachtsman with a flair for winning. Carina 1, a smaller yacht, won the Newport-to-Bermuda race in 1952, and in 1953 the Royal Yacht Squadron's Britannia Cup Race.

When he returned to New York on September 1 by plane (Carina II came back as cargo on a U. S. freighter), Nye, "who is not at all given to blowing his own horn," according to a New York HeraldTribune sportswriter, was surprised to be greeted with an impressive welcome. A member of the Mayor's Reception Committee proffered the felicitations of the City of New York; representatives of the Cruising Club of America, the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, under whose colors he sails, and other notables hailed him as "America's Number One Ocean-racing Skipper of 1955." But from the modest interview he gave reporters, one detects that his most prized rewards were the memories of the actual races and the zest of sailing them.

The winning yacht Carina II with her skipper and young amateur crew. Seated (l to r):Andrew Rockefeller, Dick Nye '52 and his father Richard S. Nye *25, owner and skipper ofthe Carina. Standing, Anthony Hogan, Ross Sherbrook, William Gray and Bud Bombard '55.