2008 Bayview Mackinac Port Huron to Mackinac RARE PRINT S/N Remarqued Print "Weather Mark" SOLD OUT 1975 Race ! Start Price USD 775.00 Current Price USD 775.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, July 14, 2008 End Time Monday, July 21, 2008 Location Birmingham, Michigan See more about '2008 Bayview Mackinac Port Huron to Mackinac RARE PRINT' Description The most famous Great Lakes Yacht Racing painting and Collector Print Please feel free to email with any questions or for additional photos-  Genevieve' GenevieveLLC@aol.com Bayview Yacht Club Collector Print Part of the history of the Bayview Yacht Club Port Huron to Mackinac / Mackinaw Race Local pick-up in Birmingham, Michigan or local delivery available. Shipping also available. Please feel free to email with any questions or for additional photos.  GenevieveLLC@aol.com The Weather Mark The 1975 Canada's Cup race on the Great Lakes in which GOLDEN DAZY (foreground) defeated the Canadian contender MARAUDER. Original availability: SoldPrint edition, print size: Litho, 750 SN, 29 1/2 x 25"Availability & Price: Secondary marketSecondary market price:   Print ONLY Min. $800 Cost of this custom matting with cutout for Remarque and framing was $374 in addition to the cost of the Ltd. Ed. Print and the cost of the Remarque. Click to open supersize image Click to open supersize image Detailed "Remarque" added by J. Clary for our family's collection;  Sloop Golden Dazy with a full blooper.  Very detailed remarque and re-signed as an additional original work of Clary artistry. Click to open supersize image Click to open supersize image Click to open supersize image Click to open supersize imageFrom the collection of James Clayton Schea "The Weather Mark" by Jim Clary  Number 624/750  SOLD  OUT  EDITION Wonderfully Remarqued for Schea by Jim Clary, the artist, and the Remarque is beautifully detailed and signed as well.  All remarques Jim has done for our family over the years are VERY detailed and significant to the particular work. "The Weather Mark" depicts the 1975 Canada's Cup race on the Great lakes in which Golden Dazy (foreground) defeated the Canadian contender MARAUDER. This is a very collectable Original Signed lithograph which has been sold out for many years and is only available in the Secondary Market if you could find one.  However, Mr. Clary did wonderful and detailed REMARQUES for us over the years and this is representative of one of his fine original efforts.  The Price which we are offering this colorful art piece for is equal to receiving not only the finest Remarque done in / on this collection, but you are also receiving our very expensive (cost to us) framing and double Acid-Free matting essentially for FREE.  We have owned this Original for 30+ years and enjoy her daily. and a little history of Golden Dazy for you sailing buffs... The End of An Era: Golden Dazy LeavesLake Champlain for Massachusetts WatersAttribution:  by Bern Collins, November 2003 At the Shelburne Shipyard, on September 10, 2003, Golden Dazy was loaded onto a truck headed for Massachusetts, leaving for the last time her homeport on Lake Champlain. The Hill family, who had owned Dazy for almost a quarter of a century, were not at the Shipyard to take pictures or say goodbye. In a way, however, they had spent the summer saying goodbye, as they watched the new owners work on Dazy from their offices, which are adjacent to the Shipyard. As Bruce and Carol Hill reminisced later that day at the Lake Champlain Yacht Club, where Golden Dazy had graced the anchorage for so many years, they expressed surprise that she had sold soon after being listed on the Web. It is an unusual boat, with a distinctive history; they thought it might take several months. Fortunately, it was just the type of wooden boat that a young couple from Ipswich, Massachusetts were looking for. Dazy’s Fame Golden Dazy was built by Gougeon Brothers of Bay City, Michigan. Designed by Ron Holland, she had won Canada’s Cup in 1975. A few years later, when Steele saw her “power by,” her name had been changed to Tern by her new owner. While Bruce was looking for a new boat, Steele got a call from Connors’ business manager (who managed all of his America’s Cup challenges) telling him that Tern was for sale. The owner had given the boat to a maritime academy in New York. Due to the “revolutionary” wood plus epoxy hull construction, Steele believes he may have had trouble selling her, which is how she ended up at the academy. “Well, it’s plywood,” Steele notes, “and people were concerned—no large boats were built like that—they were small. And, of course, the small ones were dry sail, they didn’t sit in water all the time.” In 1975, when Golden Dazy raced in the Canada’s Cup, she had the stiffest hull of any of the contenders; at 41’6” it is a combination of strips of Western Red Cedar, okoume plywood, and teak, for a 1 1/8-inch total. Using these woods, Gougeon Brothers pioneered the Wood Epoxy Saturation Technique (W.E.S.T System). When she won, it was said that “the prettiest was the fastest.” When Steele and Bruce became co-owners, Steele says, “Bruce didn’t have to be talked into getting Golden Dazy. Primarily, we got her to do just what we did—go to the Bermuda Race.” They changed her name from Tern back to Golden Dazy and prepared to enter the Bermuda Race in 1980. If you are a Bayview Old Timer or just enjoyed the friendship and humor around the bar at Bayview looking out on the mouth of the Detroit River... click this link  http://www.byc.com/cc1975.cfm   or read below.. either way you'll be reminded of people you know or knew, good times we've had and just some good honest history..  Canada's Cup 1975 - at Bayview Yacht Club - Best of 7 point series Challenger: Sloop Marauder of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club Dimensions: IOR 32' Designer: Skipper: Owner: Dave Howard Defender: Sloop Golden Dazy of Bayview Yacht Club Dimensions: IOR 32' Designer: Ron Holland - Builder; Gougeon Bros. Skipper: Don Criner Owner: Dr. Gerry Murphy The Canadians wasted no time in submitting a challenge for 1975. The Bayview race committee included "the Chair"; Joseph E. "Mike" Tapert, along with Bill Connolly, Don McQueen and Bill Stetson. This series resulted in the largest field of contenders ever. Part of the reason was that the North American and World Two Ton Championship was going to be held in Detroit that summer. Bayview had six boats vying to be the defender of the Cup. The Defenders Frank Piku teamed up with Dave Gamble and was back with a new boat, Aggressive II. She was designed by Bruce King and built of aluminum at Sparcraft. She featured two bilge boards set at a 20-degree angle, canted 4 degrees, and had an external rudder. Gene Mondry had a brand new Leading Edge, a Hood design very much like Nike, owned by Bob Timkin. Edge was built early and competed in the SORC prior to the Canada's Cup. By the first trial series she was tuned to the max and scored the most wins. Nike, while similar to Edge, featured an awesome centerboard that extended down 11 feet, 7 inches. The race committee had to be very careful where they set the courses. Nike showed awesome speed in a straight line. Ricochet was a Peterson design that Llwyd Ecclestone had built by Palmer Johnson. Hank Burkard heard about Ecclestone's boat and promptly became a partner. Ecclestone wanted the boat to sail in the World Two-ton Championships and Burkard wanted to go for the Canada's Cup. The boat was built in only nine weeks up at Sturgeon Bay. Golden Dazy, owned by Gerry Murphy, was a Ron Holland design built out of wood by the Gougeon brothers in Bay City. The Hughes brothers had Notre Dame Du Loc (which was the old Dynamite). RCYC countered with four challengers. Both the Americans and the Canadians had to eventually select a single boat for the match race for the Canada's Cup. Both camps ran a series of 'selection' races to that end. The defender series started out as a "selection" process. Because Piku had taken Aggressive I to Italy and won the World Two-ton Cup, The 1975 Two-ton Cup was held in Detroit, as was the North American two-ton Championship. The North Americans featured 18 boats from the US and Canada. Everyone was anxious to test out their new boats. Aggressive II won that series. Aggressive II was helmed by Tim Woodhouse with Rick Grenzke, Al Declercq, Al Mclnally, Jack Wildermuth, Eric Hollerbach and Frank Piku as crew. The World two-ton series only had 7 boats. Ted Turner came in to skipper Notre Dame, without success. It came down to Aggressive II and Ricochet. They were sailing the long distance race in Lake Huron going onto the last leg when a tremendous storm hit. Ricochet was hit by lightning and Aggressive II had her rudder snap in half. Both managed to finish, with Ricochet taking the win. She seemed to be the leading candidate to become the Canada's Cup defender. Ricochet's crew was made up of Henry and John Burkard, John Uznis, Jerry Clixby, Jack Morman, George Van Jr., Kurt Leitz, Tom Shoemaker and Ken Frey. Golden Dazy was helmed by Don Criner, with Robby Johnson, Jess Smith, Terry Smith, John Weiksnar, Jon Wake, Gerry Murphy, Ian Gougeon, and Ron Bertanzi. Dazy started our very slowly. She did poorly in the North American Two-ton series and poorly in the first set of trials. They realized that the boat was much too stiff. After flying in Ron Holland from Ireland for a consultation, they took out about 650 pounds of lead. Up until then Peter Barret from North Sails had been their tactician but he realized that he was not suited for match racing and recommended a little known Australian named John Bertrand. The first time Criner met Bertrand they sat at the Bayview bar and Bertrand gave him match-racing lessons using bar straws. Bertrand gave a real boost to the team. He was a great motivator. He organized the training program and they practiced everything. The very first thing they practiced was docking the boat. Dazy did better during the second series. Again, Ron Holland was called on for more modifications. They took out lead and added about two feet to the rig. After that, no one could touch her in light air. Going into the last series Dazy still lacked something. Prior to the last defender series, Notre Dame and Leading Edge were excused. The next morning at 6AM Criner called Louie Wake who had been with Edge and invited him to be the navigator on Dazy. Robert Royer had been the tactician but he almost put them on the rocks in the Mackinac race. Burkard called at 10AM but was too late. Now all the pieces were in place. After 90 some races during the summer the selection committee just couldn't, or wouldn't, make a decision. It was decided that a final sail-off would be conducted to determine the defender. By luck of the draw, Aggressive II was to sail against Dazy and Ricochet against Nike. Ricochet beat Nike. Aggressive and Dazy duked it out. It came down to the last race. Aggressive led going into the last mark in a light air race. They rounded the leeward mark tight and pulled up their bilge boards and sailed almost dead downwind for the finish. Dazy thought the air looked better towards the right and so made a wide turn and headed right. They got a little better breeze and slowly gained on Aggressive. A huge storm blew up and Dazy hit the wind shift and won the race, making Dazy the winner. Aggressive's crew was so upset over losing that they started a rumor that Aggressive had been sold to the Canadians. When the story made the paper everyone got very upset. Piku said: "show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. I'm not a good loser." Dazy then went on to beat Ricochet in the finals to become the defender. After all of the modifications, Dazy didn't rate two-ton and she had to make some modifications to race in the Cup. They faced Dave Howard's Marauder, the challenger from the RCYC, in what Criner described as the closest and most exciting Canada's Cup ever. The first day both boats were out practicing, they came back to the Club together. Marauder had an awful time docking with lots of screaming and hollering. Dazy sailed in and executed a perfect docking. Dazy led the psyche contest. The Canada's Cup Series However, Bertrand never won a start and Dazy always had to sail from behind to stage a comeback. Nevertheless, come back she did, winning the first three races to make it 3-0 in a best of seven series. Her rig was a new design from Bergstrom and Ridder of Sweden, which featured, swept back spreaders. The Canadians learned after a 55-tack duel that they were no matches for Dazy's crew or the easy tack rig. The fourth race was the long distance race up in Lake Huron. Dr. Murphy has a feeling that the weather was going to be rough and supplied the crew with some motion sickness pills designed for the astronauts. The crew laughed, until they started the race. As predicted by Murphy, the weather was awful. The mark boat Peggy V was tossed around violently. The racing crews started to get seasick. Criner, who never gets seasick, started to feel queasy and went below to find that most of the medications had already been taken. Dazy had to use a bucket to bail the entire race. Marauder won and gained two points to make the score Dazy 3, Marauder 2. The deciding race was to be a course race on Lake St. Clair. Dazy actually won the start and lead all the way around. Unfortunately, the time limit expired 26 seconds before they finished. They had to go at it one more time. The last race was another typical light air race. Dazy lost the start and played catch-up the entire race. Marauder was ahead going into the last mark, did a layaway set and sailed for the finish line. Dazy thought the air looked better on the left, did a gibe set and went for the left side. After a gut wrenching leg, with Bertrand screaming to gibe over towards Marauder and Louie Wake saying stay on the left, Dazy crossed 11 seconds ahead to win the Canada's Cup. The now standard Dazy staysail was designed for Golden Dazy during that summer. Winner - Dazy 4-2                   Original Marine Art From our Family's Collection by   Jim Clary World renowned Marine Artist and Historian j. Clary     Payment Payment is due within 24 hours of winning bid.  PayPal is accepted as well as Cashiers Check (US Bank only) or your Credit or Debit Card. Shipping Fine Art (only) is always available for local pick-up OR crated shipment by proper carrier.  Unframed collector prints may be sent via Federal Express, USPS Priority, DHL, and UPS.  We also use your personal or company account with any of these companies for shipping if you prefer.  If a flat shipping charge is not shown in this listing you are welcome to email me for a quote at: GenevieveLLC@aol.com  Terms of Sale We INSURE everything for what you paid OR more as often we sell pieces for far less than their replacement value/cost.  In the event of damage, your shipment will have been fully and properly insured.  No refunds or returns are possible on art.  The ONLY exception would be if we made an error in the description of the piece in which case a full refund of the purchase price will be offered. About Us Our family has been collecting Marine Art in the form of Original Oil Paintings, Signed Limited Edition Artist Remarqued Prints, Hand-built sailing ships and sailboats, Scrimshaw, and Nautical Theme Antiques for well over 40 years.  We love and enjoy every single piece we own.  However, as a result of selling several homes our area for display and enjoyment of our treasures has been decreased by nearly 14,000 sq. feet- therefore you will see listed by our family treasures which you normally would never be able to purchase and at prices which are not only more than realistic, but on the low end to below value in all cases.  We do not believe in "storing" treasures such as these we are parting with- they are to be displayed and enjoyed! Most often we are in Birmingham, Michigan (small very nice town north of Detroit, MI) and always happy to hear from you. Very best regards,  Genevieve' GenevieveLLC@aol.com  Contact Us With the wonders of 21st. 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