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COMMODORE IIKNIJY I?. ( IIAPM/VN,
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Yachting Activities of Henry 15. Chapman
One of mv early activities was rigging an old bed slieot on a baby carriage and sailing down Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis. This had to be discontinued because it frightened the horses and caused one runaway, wrecking a surrey.
1903	? Sailed fishing
skiffs	with the old type
sprit sails and crewed on ?sand bagger? cat boats and sloops.
My father, W. J. Chapman, owned and sailed a Cape Cod cat boat, named ?Virginia? for my sister. This boat was 23 feet, gaff rigged, carried 1500 pounds of lead ballast in the bilge, 100 pounds of lead in the center board, and twenty-four 75-pound sand bags in heavy weather. Her mast was 59 feet tall and she carried a	large	spinnaker.	During the	period 1907 to 1913,
my	brothers,	Alfred	and	William,	and I built one cat
boat and two sloops, which we successfully raced on the Gulf Coast and Lake Pontchartrain.
1906 to 1909 ? Member of the Bay Waveland Yacht Club (clubhouse destroyed in 1909 hurricane).
1914 to 1915 ? Out-of-town member, Southern Yacht Club.
1927 to 1928 ? Member of the Biloxi Yacht Club Board of Governors.
1949 to date? Member of the Bay Waveland Yacht Club when it was reorganized. Served as Commodore in 1953 and again in 1956. Presently hold life membership.
1951	? Helped organize Mississippi Coast Yachting Association and served as first Commodore.
1952	? My brother, Wallace Chapman, Past President of the Gulf Yachting Association and Past Commodore of the Biloxi Yacht Club, and I donated a memorial trophy to the MCYA to be sailed for annually for the MCYA Championship. This has now become one of the outstanding regattas of the Gulf Coast, being sailed in 24 Fish boats with six skippers and crews from each of the four Mississippi Coast Yacht Clubs. In one of these regattas, there were 26 direct descendants of my father, sailing as skippers or crewmen.
1964 to 1966 ? Served as Secretary-Treasurer of Gulf Yachting Association and as Commodore-Presi-dent in 1967.
Other Activities
1917 to 1918 ? Served in World War I. Second Lieu-
tenant. Army Air Corps, flying instructor.
December, 1918 ? Flew and helped map first air mail route in California, Sail Diego to Sacramento anil San Francisco.
191!) to 1929 ? Served in U.S. Merchant Marine as 3rd Mate, 2nd Mate, Chief Mate, and Captain on ocean steamships.
1929 to 1932 ? Operated flying school and air service, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1933	to 1934 ? Chief pilot for small airline in Spanish Honduras, Guatemala and Nicauragua.
1934	to 1946 ? Operator and chief pilot. Chapman Air Service. Training pilots in World War II under contract to U. S. War Training Service.
October 12, 1939 ? Established new world's record for distance in small sea planes.
1947 to 1964 ? Land Surveyor.
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