WALTER CROMWELL WOOD TROPHY
Massachusetts Bay Championship
The Mass Bay Sailing Association established a midget sailing championship in 1951 at the suggestion of Mrs. Philip Hogan, a sailor who devoted many hours to the indoctrination of young boys and girls to the joys of sailing and/or racing boats through the Schools Sailing Club and other organizations. Similar midget championships had been successfully operated in other NAYRU districts, but midget competitions have not been broadened to New England, National, or North American championships. Walter C. Wood, director of sailing at M.I.T. and Secretary of the MBSA from 1952-53, donated a handsome plaque, featuring the original M.I.T. Dinghy in a half-model, as the perpetual trophy. The Championship was inaugurated at M.I.T. in these dinghies.
| Year | Club | Skipper |
|
1951 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Samuel S. Bishop |
|
1952 |
Hingham Y.C. |
Henry Cook |
|
1953 |
Hull Y.C. |
William Hogan |
|
1954 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Carolyn Dorrance |
|
1955 |
Hull Y.C. |
Thomas Bilodeau |
|
1956 |
Squantum Y.C. |
Kerry Foye |
|
1957 |
Squantum Y.C. |
Kerry Foye & Thomas Coleman, Jr. |
|
1958 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Stephen Wales |
|
1959 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Thomas Bernard |
|
1960 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Thomas Bernard |
|
1961 |
Crow Point Y.C. |
Hugh Devine, Jr. |
|
1962 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Robert Doyle |
|
1963 |
M.I.T. Nautical |
Jeffrey Gold |
|
1964 |
Winchester Boat Club |
Alan Raphael |
|
1965 |
Hingham Y.C. |
Gain Bunten |
|
1966 |
Crow Point Y.C. |
Clifford E. Chase |
|
1967 |
Crow Point Y.C. |
Clifford E. Chase |
|
1968 |
Crow Point Y.C. |
Clifford E. Chase |
|
1969 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Mark O'Connor Jr |
|
1970 |
Marblehead Frostbite S.C |
Judd Smith |
|
1971 |
Cottage Park Y.C. |
Joe Petrucci |
|
1972 |
Hull Y.C. |
David Elkins |
|
1973 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Brian Keane |
|
1974 |
Winchester Boat Club |
Charles Hagedorn |
|
1975 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Scott Ford |
|
1976 |
Hull Y.C. |
Peter Dolphin & Robert Slattery |
|
1977 |
Cottage Park Y.C. |
Joseph DiGiovanni |
|
1978 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Scott Duncombe |
|
1979 |
Community Boating |
Kevin Burchill |
|
1980 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Amy Duncomb |
|
1981 |
Winchester Boat Club |
James Bowers |
|
1982 |
Winchester Boat Club |
James Bowers |
|
1983 |
Winchester Boat Club |
Michael Bowers |
|
1984 |
Corinthian Y.C. |
Arthur Beauchesne |
|
1985 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Stuart Wales |
|
1986 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Stuart Wales |
|
1987 |
Cottage Park Y.C. |
Katy Collins |
|
1988 |
Winchester |
Brian Keefe |
|
1989 |
Winchester Boat Club |
Brian Keefe |
|
1990 |
Eastern Y.C. |
Tyler & Ethan Doyle |
|
1991 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Ethan & Tyler Doyle |
|
1992 |
Pleon Y.C. |
Ethan Doyle & Jason Hood |
|
1993 |
Cohasset Y.C. |
Wiley Wakeman & Colin Pyfrom |
|
1994 |
Manchester Y.C. |
Alex Hamlin & Matt Herbster |
|
1995 |
Hingham Y.C. |
Tim Corbett & Miles Houston |
|
1996 |
MIT Sailing |
Brewster Charles & Alden Reid |
|
1997 |
MIT Sailing |
Brewster Charles & Alden Reid |
|
1998 |
MIT Sailing |
Brewster Charles & Alden Reid |
|
1999 |
Scituate Frostbite |
Schuler Wiggin & Craig Fagin |
| 2009 | Medford Boat Club | Jamie Traverse & Elizabeth Aliberti |
