In this view from the Centennial of Marblehead Race Week, taken from the Boston Yacht Club's new Race Committee boat, 110 class sloops ease down on the starting line in flawless sailing weather off Marblehead Neck. Founded in 1889, Marblehead Race Week engages the yachting fraternity of Massachusetts' North Shore the last week in July. Marblehead itself is a noteworthy center of sail yachting, boasting no less than six yacht clubs, among them the illustrious Eastern (1870), the Corinthian (1885) and the Marblehead Station of the Boston Yacht Club (1866). Of a summer's evening, the visitor is treated to the musical tinkling of halyard shackles on the masts of hundreds of yachts bobbing at their moorings in Marblehead's magnificent deep-water harbor, and the booming of evening guns at the spit-and-polish yacht clubs which perch around the harbor's rocky rim.