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The skipjack Ida May, captained by Shawn Ridgley and owned by the Gladden family, claimed victory at the 66th Annual Deal Island-Chance Lion’s Club Labor Day Skipjack Race on September 1, 2025—her 7th win in the past 9 years. The crew included Meghan, Ella, Robert, Keith, Bill, David, Tara, Missy, Alain, and Joey.

This year’s race was one of the most thrilling in memory, tense from start to finish. Winds held steady at 10–15 knots, gusting up to 20. Ida May…

The Ida May came in first place in the 2017 Deal Island Labor Day Skipjack Race!!!!

Thanks to Capt. Shawn Ridgley for sailing a great race!!! Amazing!!! What a great day.  Elbert and Gordon Gladden are very proud.  

We blew away the competition, stealing the other boats' wind and passing the fleet on the way to the first buoy.  We then kept our lead the entire race and put much distance in between us and our nearest competitor.  It was a perfect day to sail,…

The Ida May won First Prize at the Deal Island Skipjack Races 2013!!!  Quite a turn of events for the Ida May, considering last week we weren't sure if we were even going to be in the race at all.  We discovered that our mast was rotten.  We were stunned because it was only two years old, but we had beetles bore into the mast and when we took the mast out of the boat it broke apart in three pieces.  Luckily, we borrowed a mast from Stoney Whitelock's Helen Virginia, who is at Scott's Cove…