"He called my Dad to tell him.He said, 'I know you will hear about it so you might as well hear first hand.'" "He and his brother both jumped overboard.they were ok.but lots of damage to Wilma Lee," she said. Ralph Ruark's daughter, Patti Ruark Hall, recalled Wilson running the boat into the drawbridge at Tilghman Island, breaking the mast. Wilson previously owned Elsworth and described Wilma Lee as a much easier boat to sail. Ruark began having health problems and sold Wilma Lee to Robert Wilson in the late 1980s.
After the Deal Island races began in 1960, Ruark sailed Wilma Lee to back-to-back wins in 19, with another victory in 1977. Ruark, who continued to sail her out of Wingate. Asbury dropped dead on his boat in the summer of 1962 and Orville fulfilled the pact, eventually selling Wilma Lee to Bronza's son-in-law, Ralph L.
Orville and Asbury had an agreement that the one who died first would make payment to the other's widow to allow the survivor to own the boat outright. The original trailboards were misspelled "Wilmer Lee." Her first correctly spelled trailboards are preserved by the Calvert Marine Museum at Solomons Island, Maryland. They jointly named the skipjack-"Wilma" for Orville's older daughter and "Lee" for Asbury's granddaughter, Barbara Lee. Orville sold half ownership in Wilma Lee to Asbury, creating a partnership from which Orville would net half the owner's share of income from the new boat, while still taking home the owner's and captain's shares from Joy Parks. Wilma Lee displays the unusual fore-and-aft bottom planking at the stern that builder Tom Young had used on Joy Parks, indicating that Bronza probably used Young's design as a model for his own skipjacks. Orville Parks had Bronza, his brother, build the skipjack for Asbury to sail, while Orville would keep sailing his own skipjack, Joy Parks. Asbury's sister, Katie, was Bronza's wife. Asbury Lewis had lost his boat in a storm and didn't have the money to buy another. In 1940, fifteen years before he built Rosie Parks, Martha Lewis and Lady Katie, Bronza Parks built his first skipjack.
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