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This is Wilmette Harbor on Lake Michigan, about 16 miles north of Chicago. Somehow, 15 Dolphins got together to make this their homeport. Sheridan Shores Yacht Club is in the center of the picture on the left bank. The 'landmark' building is the Bahi Temple. 2007 Fleet Captain** Kristin Keenan (Duet) and Historian Jack Farley will help get us the story. **April 10, 2009 - John Hellmuth (Echo) is the new Fleet Captain

Click here for a large view. Dolphins are visible in the harbor!

Above is another shot of the harbor with the Chicago skyline in the distance.

Dolphins occupy a string of moorings and adjacent slips on the north side of the harbor identified above. The river that flows under that bridge is dammed upstream.

 

 

 

Checking in first is Ted Prohov and Wally Barry with their Yankee #190 Wada Boat.

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We got some pictures from Ted taken during Wilmette's annual Race Weekend - July 28-29, 2007. This is a picture of George Fitzpatrick's Delphinus, sail # 6195 and Ron and Larry Falbe's Celerity, sail # 6004.  Delphinus is an O'Day built boat. Celerity is Yankee hull #101, She was Fleet Historian Jack Farley's boat for nearly 38 years.

 

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Jack sent in the following summary of the Wilmette Fleet Roster. If the boat name is underlined click on it to go her

 

 

			Dolphin Fleet Hull Numbers	Note 75% complete
Hull #	Sail #	Name	Orig. Owner	Present Owner		Comments
15	15	Porpoise		Terry Glenn	O Day
19	E141	Cicerone	Robert Dopel		O Day	no longer at wilmette
59	E178	Duet	Leon Wilke	Dave & Kristin Keenan	O Day
60	E176	Ursula	Ernest Heinemann #1		O Day
60	E176	Flipper		Russ Holmquist & John Johnson	O Day
62	6195	Bomar III	Charles Schlageter		O Day
62	6195	Delphinus		George & Mary Fitzpatrick	O Day
63	6463	Auriga	Bill Laub *	Dan Orth, Dave Tribble, John Ehrenberg	O Day
	E146	Goblin	Lindy Thomas		O Day
	E146	Gulliver		Ernest Heinemann #2	O Day
	E176	Windswept		Mike Owezarek	O Day
	E177	Rachel	Edwin Reinholtzen	Matt & Clayton Struve	O Day
	E226	Halcyon	David Glueck*	Tom Eovaldi & Gary Destefano	O Day	now the Sullivan's
101	6004	Celerity	Jack Farley & Claude McJohnston #3	Larry Falbe & Ron Falbe	Yankee
163	163	Madison	Was Umbria	Jeff Mathis	Yankee
188	16044	Canopache	John & Penny Schmuck	Sold & moved to Cape Cod	Yankee	no longer at wilmette
190	190	Wada Boat		Ted Prohov & Wally Barry	Yankee
202	202	Aurora	Paul Malm *		Yankee
225	225	Sport III	Paul Ulenhop	Ted Martin	Yankee
251	251	Echo		John Hellmuth	Pacific
			*      First time owner of this boat in Wilmette Harbor fleet (imported Boat)
			#1   Founder of the Wilmette Dolphin Fleet
			#2   In 1971Heimemann sold Ursula moved to 34' Boats at chicago, but
			came back to Dolphin fleet in 1975, buying E176
			#3   Jack & partners raced Celerity for 35 years and four of their crew
			have or did own Dolphins besides Celerity.
			Currently Paul Malm, "Aurora" & Larry Falbe, both" Duet and now Celerity"

Bodes Well is reported on its way to join the Wilmette Fleet

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On September 13, 2008 a major rainstorm dumped a record amount of rain upstream of Wilmette Harbor that resulted in a sudden release of pent up flood waters. The rush of water caused as many as 30 boats to get loose with lots of damage and several total losses - one of which was Jim Rohner's Dolphin 24 "No Name" (not listed on the Roster above). We hoped to get more on this story and we did, thanks to Ted Prohov (Wada Boat). This article appeared in the October, 2008 Sheridan Shores YC newsletter Sheridan Shorts

 

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November 12, 2009. A photo from the September issue of Sheridan Shorts, the newsletter of the Sheridan Shores YC. We are working on identifying which boats these are.