(continuted from page 37) Frank Braynard will be honored July 26th at South Street Seaport. TI1e "Frank 0. Bray nard Commem orative Sail" sailboats will compete in short-co urse Beet racing off the Battery with the Atlantis serving as the spectator boat. The Award Cerem ony follows aboard Peking. One of th e architects of the 1976 Op Sail Tall Ships Bicentennial, Frank Braynard is also credited as the fa ther of th e ''Around Lon g Island Regatta." Frank's so n , D ave Braynard , will score th e music fo r the ceremony and NMHS chairman em erims Howard Slotnick and pres ident em e ritus Peter Stanford, who helped organize the 1976 Op Sail with Frank, will sp eak. The "Around Long Island Regatta" begins the fo llowing afte rnoo n. Fo r more derailed in formation, visit: www.alir.org. April 26th will mark the SOth anniversary of the first voyage of a containership. (See article, pages 8-11 of this issue). To celebrate, the History of Containerization Foundation is hosting a gala celebration at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, on 27 April. The
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