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.