Trophy Case

The Clifford D. Mallory Trophy

The Mallory Trophy is school sailing’s oldest trophy.  It was selected and presented to the then-IYRA (now ISSA) by Clifford Mallory and his son, when the elder Mallory was Commodore of Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and President of NAYRU, the predecessor of US SAILING. The early competitions were in Atlantic-class sloops, hence the sterling silver model of the original Atlantic on the trophy.  In recent years the competition for the ISSA Nationals has been in double handed dinghies in a two-division format.  This was initiated when the U.S. Naval Academy took over hosting the event, after many years at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in keel sloops and Ravens.  Prior to that stewardship, the series had been hosted by clubs, and once by a school for their first venture into dinghies, Fireflies at St. George’s in 1959.  The Mallory competition now is rotated among the ISSA districts. – Link to PDF history of the first 40 events