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The Upside Down Trophy

a.k.a. The Horizontal Trophy

The “Famed” Upside Down Trophy is awarded by Riverton Yacht Club annually to the member who performed the most spectacular dumb stunt or the most dumb stunts during the year. We have records going back to 1937 of the “winners” however these records do not include, in every case, the story behind their selection. We know that there are members out there who remember the stories and we would like to add them to our file. If you know a story or know who does please E-mail the information to: RYC_Sailing@msn.com . Anonymous replies mailed to the Club will also be gratefully accepted; Riverton Yacht Club, P.O. Box 75, Riverton, NJ 80877

1937 Rub Gladney 1938 Bucky Parsons 1939 Ed Smith 1940 Ed Smith 1941 Ted Clelland 1942 Nick Sheble 1943 Commadore George Kimball 1944 Jerry Michener 1945 Bob Miller 1946 Toby Hunn 1947 Scudder Earp 1948 Gorden Gray 1949 Bill Washington 1950 Carl Mann 1951 Mary Lee Strohlein 1952 Marilyn Bittle 1953 Lorraine Volz 1954 1955 Edgar Shoemaker 1956 Joyce Williams 1957 Jim Lippincott 1958 William Mc Allister 1959 Hank and Betty Rowan 1960 Steve Dunn 1961 Ronnie Lippincott 1962 Tom Pippitt 1963 Carl Clasen 1964 Jay Johnson 1965 Terry Rapp 1966 Howard Bintliff 1967 Marty Faybush 1968 Len Toder 1969 John Martin 1970 Dick Prewitt 1971 Ted Hunn 1972 Jim Walter 1973 Bruce Rawlings 1974 Will Webster 1975 Nancy Ritsert & Happy Zuschnitt 1976 Lewis Mills & Michael Cook 1978 Stan Lippincott

1979 Bob & Chris Moorer 1980 Ted Hunn 1981 Don Deitz 1982 Bill Bennett & Ray Reeve 1983 Juanita Blanchard & Allen Crew 1984 Ted Hunn 1985 Susan Mortgu 1986 Ray Heppenstall 1987 Glenn Smyth 1988 Terry Rapp 1989 Russ Young 1990 Nick Mortgu 1991 Fred Rapp 1992 Rebecca Rapp 1993 Mark Evans 1994 Hank Croft 1995 Steve Mitteldorf 1996 Fred Rapp & Roland Vollman 1997 Mark Evans 1998 Roger Pritchard 1999 Ted Rapp 2000 Terry Fennell 2001 Russ Young, Keith Wenig & Mark Horger 2002 Craig Greenwood 2003 Sean Gallagher 2004 Bill Klotz 2005 Bob Johnson 2006 Uwe Mewes 2007 Keith Wenig 2008 Bart Nicholson 2009 Clint Neuman 2010 Roy Vollmer 2011 John Mangan 2012 John Mangan 2013 John Mangan 2014 Jim Irwin 2015 Frank (Sparkie) Pelosi 2016 Jim Irwin 2017 Chris O'Brien 2018 Dan Walsh