Beamer is enjoying dreaming about cruising, we can tell. He’s absorbing, via osmosis, the book Nowhere Is Too Far: The Annals Of The Cruising Club of America. This book published in 1960 by Parkinson is a detailed account of the CCA; from its founding in 1922 through the year 1959. The book includes an introduction by Mahdee’s first owner, Alexander White Moffat aka “Sandy” Moffat. He was active in the CCA and was the club’s Commodore in 1931 and 1932. Mahdee was the flagship of the CCA when she was launched in 1931. The founders and early members of the CCA include many of Alexander Moffat’s college friends and the military men that he met during WWI and wrote about in A Navy Maverick, an accounting of his adventures during WWI.

One of the wonderful Moffat grandchildren sent this great family photo. It includes “Mother De Camp” AKA “Mahdee” the woman after whom the schooner is named! The photo also includes all her daughters. Skipper (Sandy Moffat) had another romantically inspired story about an Indian word as being part of the reason for the name “Mahdee.” Mahdee is the older woman on the left. Skipper and Lally (his wife) are on the right.